Polymath-plumber makes unique furniture & artifacts from waste by Kirsten Dirksen on November 20, 2017 Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas considers the city his playground. One day he drove under a highway overpass in his hometown …
Livework family of 3: small home-studio DIY revamp by Kirsten Dirksen on February 3, 2014 Architect Sarah Deeds used to live alone with her cat in a 700 square foot attic floor apartment. To create …
Teleworking pods: dedicated backyard office in Medieval town by Kirsten Dirksen on April 7, 2013 Berkhamsted is small English village where William became the Conqueror, Geoffrey Chaucer worked and Graham Greene was born. Today it’s …
Heating Seattle backyard shed with soda cans as solar panels by Kirsten Dirksen on July 9, 2012 Peter Rowan left his job as a “corporate weenie” in 2010 to live a life with less stuff and fewer …
Architect & carpenter craft tiny backyard 120-sq-ft studio by Kirsten Dirksen on April 9, 2012 When architect Sarah Deeds wanted to set up a home office, there wasn’t an extra room in the 500-square-foot one-bedroom …
Good old city-fence redwood becomes tiny cottage studio by Kirsten Dirksen on February 9, 2012 When San Francisco artist and builder Jay Nelson sees someone tearing down a redwood fence in his neighborhood he asks …
