The lot fit 9 McMansions. They built 44 small homes for locals instead by Kirsten Dirksen on August 25, 2024 Maggie and John Randolph kept losing employees priced out of the New Hampshire coast, so they got to support local …
Tiny Texas Houses pioneer digs personal lake & crafts village around it by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2024 When we first met Tiny Texas Houses’ founder Brad Kittel 10 years ago (watch the video of our first visit …
To save historic farm, couple creates agrihood of tiny homes by Kirsten Dirksen on March 13, 2021 When developers bought the land that Skip Connett and Erin Flynn were farming in Austin, Texas, and planned to turn …
Agile villages for fire victims as template to fix CA housing? by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2019 After a fire destroyed over 5,000 homes in Santa Rosa, California, locals got together to help their neighbors: one resident …
CA tips on how RV-parks can warm up to tiny house applicants by Kirsten Dirksen on November 25, 2018 Park Delta Bay advertises as “the only legal Tiny House community in Northern California”. There are now 10 tiny homes …
Tiny cabins in VA’s woods to slow down & resync inner clock by Kirsten Dirksen on July 15, 2018 Is the “simple cabin” the ideal vessel for disconnecting from modern life? Friends Jon Staff and Pete Davis have placed …
Bauhaus to tiny “haus”: rethinking homes in Modernist Berlin by Kirsten Dirksen on February 4, 2018 When it was created in 1919, the Bauhaus aimed to be a “School of Building”, exploring dwellings, life & art: …
On life, work & leisure in Swedish tiny house allotment by Kirsten Dirksen on March 21, 2016 Sweden’s first allotment gardens and summer cottages were established in 1895, much later than the dachas of Russia or the …
Post-zoning in Containertopia: SF factory of container homes by Kirsten Dirksen on October 26, 2015 When we first visited Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart on a formerly abandoned lot in West Oakland (CA), they were …
Containertopia: cargo container tinyhome town on Oakland lot by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2014 Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart were tired of paying San Francisco rents and had always dreamt of living in a …
