Monday Morning Blue Skies

December 5, 2011 at 8:15 pm

Etta James’ latest album The Dreamer (probably her last) is on, listening to her version of Otis’ Cigarettes and Coffee, a lovely song, sun is shining. Hey, just got an idea, took out my CD, The Otis Redding Anthology, (a great 2-CD set), and put on the Otis version. I don’t want no cream or sugar, I got you baby…How is it that a singer can make you ache?

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Sold in One Day! The 84 Sq. Ft. Microhous, $16,500

December 5, 2011 at 4:40 pm

From Steven at Tiny House Listings, Dec 4, 2011:

“Glenn’s off the grid tiny house made quite a buzz around the internet the past couple days. It was featured in a number of major publications including the New York Times, Tiny House Blog, The Denver Post and more. Yesterday Glenn posted his tiny house on Tiny House Listings for sale.…

   Earlier today he sent me an email informing me that the tiny house has already sold! His tiny house listing received over 1,000 views in less than a day and he received a high volume of emails and phone calls from his listing. Glenn also shared with me that he is potentially about to take six more orders for similar tiny homes to be built.

It’s nice to see that the demand for tiny homes is alive and well. If you have a tiny home for sale you can list it here.”

https://tinyhouselistings.com/tiny-house-sold-in-one-day/

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Yurt on Lake in Colorado

December 5, 2011 at 3:57 pm

From Kent Griswold’s tinyhouseblog. “This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape is of a yurt set in a valley somewhere in Colorado. I am a big fan of yurts as I love there simplicity and ease of setting up. They seem perfect for a wilderness hideaway such as this one. Yurts are also used to live in full time, sometimes built with solid wood walls, and range from small to quite large in diameter.

The one drawback with the yurt for me is the lattice walls and how they affect your view out of the windows. You probably get used to it after a while and I know there are alternatives.

This photo is courtesy of the Colorado Yurt Company.”

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Simon’s Hobbit House in Wales

December 5, 2011 at 12:33 pm

“You are looking at pictures of a house that Simon Dale built for his family in Wales. It was built by him and his father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting they were moved in and cosy. He estimate 1000-1500 man hours and $5000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).…”

Simon’s Hobbit House is featured in Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter. Check out the comments on this website: https://ciracar.com/build-a-house-for-less-than-5000

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The 84 Sq. Ft. Microhouse For Sale $16,500

December 4, 2011 at 11:56 pm

“LOUISVILLE, Colo. — For many Americans who bought more home than they could really afford in the giddy days before the crash, the big-house dream has become a nightmare in the ashes of foreclosure and regret.

   So after all that, how does 84 square feet sound?

   Glenn Grassi, in building his prototype one-room microhome — 7 by 12 feet stem-to-stern, including a wood-burning stove, an antique parlor chair that also serves as a seat for the compost toilet beneath it, and a shower under the bed — is hoping it sounds, well, like shelter in the old-fashioned practical sense.…”

NYTimes story by Kirk Johnson Published: December 2, 2011

Photo: Matthew Staver for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/us/at-84-square-feet-home-takes-tiny-house-movement-tinier.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=tiny%20homes&st=cse

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Badass Bridge of the Day

December 4, 2011 at 11:11 am

“This incredible ‘sunken’ bridge located in the Netherlands is giving visitors a unique way to access a beautiful 17th Century Dutch fort. Designed by RO & AD Architects, the Moses Bridge literally parts the waters that surround the fort, allowing pedestrians to pass through. The bridge is made from sustainable Accsys Technologies Accoya wood, which is both FSC and PEFC certified.…”

https://inhabitat.com/sunken-pedestrian-bridge-in-the-netherlands-parts-moat-waters-like-moses/ro-ad-west-brabant-waterline2/?extend=1

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Self-Sufficient Wooden House-Truck

December 3, 2011 at 8:22 pm

“The Morisons exhibited their self-sufficient wooden house-truck, customized from a decommissioned fire engine and containing, next to a stove and pot plants, a library of apocalypse-themed fiction. Tales of Space and Time, as it was called, embodied a jauntily over-optimistic attitude to surviving the end of the world, …”

https://www.morison.info/talesofspaceandt.html

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