Tiny House for Sale- Only $4k- A MESS- but with potential?
MA area tiny house for sale- $4500…. As I see people searching high and wide for affordable tiny houses, or camp cabins all the time (its a FREQUENT post discussion on tiny house boards), I figured I’d share this Massachusetts…
Read more »Tree House Building and Cabin Design- Roofing made EASY
Another tip from longtime tree house builder Derek “Deek” Diedricksen Here is a simple little trick or tip I use when installing both Tuftex and/or Ondura or Onduvilla roofing on tree houses, sheds, playhouses, forts, backyard offices, or even chicken…
Read more »HIDDEN TINY HOUSE in an Animal Sanctuary (Yoga Retreat)
I stumbled upon this one by accident as the video explains, as I was meeting up with some old friends, so the result is a seat-of-my-pants tiny house tour with the limited time I had. This tiny house on wheels…
Read more »Old delivery truck outside, fast-transformer homestudio inside
Vaughn Dabney bought an old food delivery van for $9500 and spent $8000 in supplies to convert it into a fully custom home powered by solar. Trained as an engineer, but with no construction experience, he educated himself on everything…
Read more »Young priest turns forsaken farm into paradise homestead
Five years ago Catholic priest Johannes Schwarz left his parish to “withdraw for a few years” in the Italian Alps (in the shadow of his beloved Monte Viso). He bought an old “rustico” – stone farm building – for 20,000…
Read more »Lived on dumpster & built Kasita. Now tests Freemium homes
He lived in a dumpster, then designed a slick plug-and-play prefab that got stuck in permitting purgatory, but now Jeff Wilson, AKA “Professor Dumpster,” has released an ultra-nimble modular shelter that he believes could circumvent permits and deploys in just…
Read more »Spoil yourself at these AWESOME Desert Tent Glamping Rentals!
Dustin and I recently spent two nights at this glamping tent rental compound in Yucca Valley, CA and LOVED IT! (rental link further below) We were out teaching a hands-on tiny house building workshop in the area and this was…
Read more »Solar Alpine home warms up via 3-story greenhouse facade
Emanuele Almagioni wanted to build a home in a cold and windy, but very sunny, town high in the Italian Alps that would use the sun to provide all of its heating needs. With winter low temperatures reaching -25°C (-13°F)…
Read more »DEAD SPRAY PAINT CANS- Empty them the EASY way!
Dead spray paint (rattle) cans is a common problem for people. They sit around awhile and lose their propellant and in most areas you can’t toss or recycle them unless they are fully empty (which seems tough to do). Well,…
Read more »LA tests Dutch/Japanese pocket communities. Skeptics like it
When Barbara Bestor was tasked with turning 5 mostly-abandoned lots into 18 homes in LA’s Echo Park, she knew the neighborhood opposition to multi-family units so she performed “stealth density” by crafting duplexes and triplexes that look like single-family homes.…
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