Leo the Surfer Meets Fred the Barber, Who Loves Tiny Homes

“Hello Lloyd,

    A few weeks ago I got a new barber in Huntington Beach at the Surf City Barber Shop.  My old barber retired.   As I was sitting in the chair I noticed on the table Tiny Homes, I asked Fred the Barber about it and he said he loved the book and it was almost worn out because it was the most popular thing to read in the shop.  Some day Fred says he wants to get some land and build a tiny home.  Tonight I am off to Costa Rica for 6 weeks, warm water surfing.

   Thanks for the good hair cut Fred.

Leo (Hetzl)”

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:

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