“The Tower Studio is a small cabin with a garage on the lower level and a comfortable living unit on the second floor. A stove keeps things cozy while living above the fray. Oversee your land or enjoy a far vista from your own tower. This design could work well as a guest house or small starter.”
From HousePlans.com:
https://www.houseplans.com/262-square-feet-1-bedrooms-1-bathroom-northwest-house-plans-1-garage-33929
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
“The Tower Studio is a small cabin with a garage on the lower level and a comfortable living unit on the second floor. A stove keeps things cozy while living above the fray. Oversee your land or enjoy a far vista from your own tower. This design could work well as a guest house or small starter.”
The garage on the lower level is a nice touch.
The Tuckerbag
Great perch! Towers are dream homes to me…I'd make a kitchen downstairs that spills out into the garden.
Put some solar panels on the roof to help charge your electric car or plug-in hybrid.
Two levels = saving of ground… but please, let's stop building shelters for cars ! Leave them outside, it's only metal and plastic…
I'd use the lower level as a pottery's workshop. The stove's pipe goes through the two levels and keeps the tower warm.
That looks so cool. Is there other function of that aside for being a garage. Or would it still look nice if you put an extension on it.
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