Built a backyard Yome (yurt + dome) to stay in San Francisco
When Ava Rosen first slept in a yome – a hybrid between a yurt and geodesic dome – she fell in love with its geometry: “I’d never heard of a yome before, but I just really liked it and I…
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The Hickory Hobbit Tiny House- THE Coolest Bathtub! (and FOR SALE)
Whether its a cabin, glamping getaway, a tiny house on wheels, or a small cottage you’re planning on designing, THIS build has some ideas and approaches you might appreciate. I’ve seen so many tiny houses and spent the night dozens…
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A Frame Tree House with Zip Line
This tree house is one I just designed and completed for a family in Connecticut. A budget build overall (incorporating lots of salvaged materials), it was built over the course of a few weekends. This tree fort, or tree cabin,…
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Needed basic furniture. Came up with Paleo-transformer system
To furnish an old country home in a 12th Century town, we wanted to create the minimal expression of furniture made from materials to reflect the land around it. From pinewood – and without glues or screws-, we (with help…
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A NEW Tiny House Village- Pocket neighborhoods hit ATL!
As the notion of tiny house living spreads, and the demand for housing increases in inner city markets, Will Johnston and his team have managed to develop a tiny house village in Atlanta, GA based on the pocket neighborhood principals…
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2 skinny homes interlock like a puzzle on small LA lot
Kevin Daly and Dana Cuff bought a small, rundown home in Santa Monica, and worried about the lack of density in LA, they decided to create two homes on the small lot. Not wanting to prioritize one for light and…
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Went homeless. Done Guerrilla Grazing by choice ever since
Aaron Fletcher has grazed his sheep and lived off the land as a traveling shepherd for 12 years. He calls it guerrilla grazing (a step above guerrilla gardening, he says) and he lets his sheep graze – with permission- public…
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Kristie Wolfe restores boat-shaped cabin in forsaken lake
Kristie Wolfe has transformed a giant potato, a fire lookout, and an earthen hole into homes and now she’s converting a “shipwreck” into a family retreat. Built in the 1960s as a whimsical lake-side home, when Wolfe bought the extreme…
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Modal is a backyard home to rent-out or dwell-in anywhere
Can backyard homes provide income & housing? A year after Salt Lake City allowed owners to put tiny homes in their backyards, Colin Jube and Dallin Jolley launched Modal Living, creating prefabricated housing that allows homeowners to erect small shelters…
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Shipping Container Tiny House BRIDGES A STREAM -(FOR SALE!)
This modern tiny house or shipping container cabin has quite a few very interesting, space saving, and creative elements and features to it- which you’ll see in this video tour from builder/designer Cameron Chafee. Its also build and placed (for…
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