We are coming to the end of a long haul, a year or more. We’ve been putting the book together two pages at a time, and a week ago we started printing it out. Boy, is it exciting! To see it in full size color after all this time. Lookin good!
The subtitle is: “Wheels and Water.”
Wheels: Vans, pickup trucks with camper shells, house trucks, school buses, trailers, and cycles
Water: Sail boats, houseboats, and tug boats
There are some 90 nomadic homes here; about half of these are lived in full-time, and the other half are used part time or for trips of varying length upon life’s highways and waterways.
We’ve put together five prototypes for a cover, which are in the above post. What do you think?
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:
We are coming to the end of a long haul, a year or more. We’ve been putting the book together two pages at a time, and a week ago we started printing it out. Boy, is it exciting! To see it in full size color after all this time. Lookin good!
SO excited to see this!!! It looks great!
Love it. I especially like the junk-rigged sailboat that appears in the top cover.
We vote for cover number 4….broad selection of homes that capture the spirit of adventure on the road.
AMAZING!! can't wait to read it.
Thanks
We are starting our adventure in a few months in a trawler along the east coast, any information regarding the joys and challenges of "tiny living" are appreciated. Also, we are considering blogging about the trip, do you have any suggestions or helpful hints? Caretta crew.
Caretta, Send photos, text and we can post on theshelterblog…
Sorry, didn't see your response earlier. Having a difficult time adding the pictures. My e-mail is terrylynnisrael@gmail.com. How do you add pictures here, one of the many questions I have.