Retired engineer builds transforming, offgrid, stealth campervan by Kirsten Dirksen on March 10, 2019 With two years and $20,000, retired winery engineer Dave Orton turned a Ford Transit into a completely off-grid van home …
A peek into the family that shaped space-adapting furniture by Kirsten Dirksen on December 16, 2018 A half century ago the Colombo family took the ugly wall bed and remade it into something stylish, easy-to-use and …
Young vets avoid student debt going vanlife in San Francisco by Kirsten Dirksen on October 24, 2018 Paris and Lovell Lee were used to small space living while in the Navy so when they started college in …
Creator of praised LEGO transformer flat builds morphing hotel by Kirsten Dirksen on September 2, 2018 A decade ago, Christian Schallert transformed a rundown Barcelona apartment into a home that could transform according to each use. …
Vina Lustado’s home-office using 2 tiny houses in “L” + deck by Kirsten Dirksen on August 27, 2018 When Vina Lustado moved into the 140-square-foot home on wheels she and her husband Cliff had built (for $40,000) in …
Graham Hill’s NYC tiny flat #2 attunes L space to the moment by Kirsten Dirksen on August 12, 2018 Graham Hill began experimenting with small space living in 2010 when he bought two units in a pre-war coop in …
Fluid NYC flat uses sliding furniture to create 3 rooms in 1 by Kirsten Dirksen on July 30, 2018 Russian architect Peter Kostelov and his artist wife, Olga Feshina, wanted private rooms to work from home in their aging …
Mechanical lean cottage morphs sliding skin with use/seasons by Kirsten Dirksen on July 1, 2018 When his mother began talking about putting a prefab in her backyard, Caspar Schols– a physicist by training- was working …
Pivoting wall adds/subtracts rooms in NYC modular micro-flat by Kirsten Dirksen on June 24, 2018 When architect Robert Garneau was asked to turn a Manhattan prewar studio into an apartment that would sleep 6 and …
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: …
