Small home in Watsonville, California

By Lloyd Kahn on February 20, 2016

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:

8 Responses to Small home in Watsonville, California

  1. love this home…

    the roof lines, the porch (have always wanted a home with a porch), and the large basement windows. (important for safety egress).

    nicely finished siding/details too..

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  3. Thomas Edison Designed and Built "Single Pour Concrete Houses"..
    I did not know..

    The Story
    http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/one-hundred-years-ago-thomas-edison-built-houses-out-concrete.html

    http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/thomas-edisons-house/

    The House
    http://christineadamsbeckett.com/2012/04/03/thomas-edisons-beautiful-failure/

    http://www.edisonmuckers.org/the-house-that-babe-ruth%E2%80%A6-and-edison-built/

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  6. Pardon me again..
    okay, so I am even more impressed..
    http://dominiquemoody.com/about/about-the-artist/

    She was diagnosed and pronounced legally blind at age 28; this altered her eyesight but not her artistic visi

    http://dominiquemoody.com/press/fact-sheet/
    Sight & Vision…
    I’ve been a working artist for at least 40 yrs. I began to lose my central eyesight in my twenties, due to a genetic form of Macular Degeneration. This condition is a form of non correctable “partial blindness”, but is also defined as low vision or visually impaired and legally blind. Although this affected my eyesight it pushed my creative vision to new depths, requiring me to change from being a realist illustrator to an assemblage sculptor.

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