Kent Griswold’s Tiny House Blog was the first full-time blog dedicated to tiny houses. Its subtitle is “Living Simply in Small Spaces.” It’s the standard-bearer and station central for the tiny house movement online: https://tinyhouseblog.com/
Kent also puts out the Tiny House Blog magazine: https://tinyhouseblog.com/magazine/
All our bread is homemade, so we use a bread knife daily. We’ve had 3 of them, of different configurations. But we got this very unusual one a couple of months ago, and it’s not only better then any bread knife I’ve ever seen, but a delight to use.
Irene says: “I like making bread knives. I tell folks when they buy ’em, ‘If this doesn’t cut the bread SMACK out of the oven better then anything else you’ve ever used, then I’ll double your money back.’ No one’s ever returned a bread knife.”
The wood is cherry or mahogany, they are made in the USA, and available for $30 plus $10 postage (mail check) to:
Irene Tukuafu
2639 N. Sycamore Haven Dr.
Nauvoo, Illinois
62354
Check out also, Irene’s musical instruments:
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Our new book Small Homes: The Right Size is now available at independent bookstores, and Amazon — as well as from us: www.shelterpub.com/building/small-homes
Shameless Commerce Dept. This is, I think, the best building book we’ve ever done. (Yes, I’m sure I’ve said this before, but it keeps reoccurring to me.) Shelter is everyone’s favorite; it captured the times, it inspired thousands of homes. Builders of the Pacific Coast is in some ways, my best book. It’s an odyssey of discovery where the reader rides shotgun with me over a 2-year period. Cohesive and focused.
BUT Small Homes is so useful to so many people in this era of astronomical home prices and rents, that I think it’s hugely important. It offers alternatives to people looking for rentals on Craigslist or homes on Zillow. Here are 65 very different homes, of different materials, in different parts of the world. The idea, as with all our building books is to use your hands to create your own shelter.
Two things I’ve discovered about this book (after seeing the finished product):
Saw this parked on a local street. 13′ long, fiberglass, kind of in between an Airstream and a Teardrop trailer. About 10K$ used.
A few days ago, I got an email from Irene Tukuafu, artist, musician, musical instrument maker, and kindred spirit, now living in Illinois. Here’s her email and my reply:
On 12/23/16 at 9:15 PM -0600, Irene Tukuafu wrote in a message entitled
Fwd: Washtub bass:
Dear Lloyd, I just finished this last night. Well, I have some more fun painting I’m going to do on this, but thought you’d like to see it. I did some research on the different kinds of washtub bass’s and when a gal let me play her one that had the handle of an axe….that worked better and can control the sound pitch better. At least it did when I played her one.
Sooooooooo I’m in the market to find a better string. Living is just wonderful when filled with fun stuffs to do. My next musical instrument will be a TENNESSEE MUSIC BOX. It’s a dulcimer that was used more for the dance hall, so had to be bigger. Not much to look at………..soooooo I’m making mine to Look at too. ha.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO THE MAX to you and all.
aloha, irene
Irene online:
https://irenetukuafu.blogspot.com/
https://harp4you.blogspot.com/
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Dear Lloyd,
My name is Benjamin, I´m an English teacher from Bielefeld, Germany and an avid follower of your blogs.
Maybe you find this interesting for your blog as well: These guys from London / France build velomobiles from wood using techniques from the times when airplanes were made of wood.
Very skilled craftsmen with beautiful vehicles – I think these guys reserve much respect 🙂
This is NOT advertising – I´m just fascinated by these vehicles !!!!! 🙂
https://www.mosquito-velomobiles.com
This is a bus at Zeno Mountain Farm in Lincoln, Vermont. The bus is used for a summer camp devoted to disabled adults. The camp has wheelchair accessible treehouse built by someone affiliated with Yestermorrow (Design/Build School in Waitesfield, Vermont)…
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Jim Bahoosh is a builder in Maine who specializes in small (500-900 sq. ft.) homes. His homes look really nice, and of the right size.
This of course coincides with our next book, now almost completed: Small Homes, which highlights some 70 builders and their small homes (400-1200 sq. ft.). It’s due out in February, 2017.
Article on Jim: https://bangordailynews.com/2016/08/01/homestead/small-but-not-tiny-houses-right-size-for-many/
His website: https://www.jimbahooshbuilder.com/houses.shtml
We just finished what will probably be the middle section of the book, “Small Homes in Cities and Towns,” 67 photos on some 20 pages. When Rick showed me the finished pages, I was thrilled. Some times I’ll muddle my way through a project, starting with no concept of how it will come out, and the whole, as they say, is greater than the sum of its parts, i.e., synergy.
We’ve got 200 out of 224 pages done now. I have this great feeling, having worked for so many months, because:
1. we’re close to the end (to printers in November, out February 2017)
2. it looks so darned good!
