Deek Diedrickson of https://relaxshacks.blogspot.com pointed out this excellent website, https://tinyrevolution.us/, billed as “… an Internet home for people interested in simple, minimalist living, and less square feet than most master bedrooms.” For example, here’s an interesting post titled “How to stock a minimalist kitchen”: here. Scroll down to the long comment by Susyn153 about paring down your belongings for living on a sailboat.
So much material has been coming in to us lately that I’ve lost track of the origins of these 3 photos. Anyone out there send any one of these to us?
Lloyd,
Thanks so much for your stunning support for small abodes. I’m looking for an instructor to teach a hands-on workshop intensive on how to build a tiny timber-framed house on a trailer.
Location: my organic farm in the Berkshires
Timeframe: Summer, 2013
Any suggestions?
Cheers!
Eli Rogosa
Mystic Sheaf Bakery
Colrain, Massachusetts (near Shelburne Falls)
growseed.org
413 624 0214
Hey lloyd,
This is jay nelson, you featured some of my work in your tiny homes book.… I just want to give you an update of what I’m working on. A new camper work truck and a hanging sphere treehouse . Also a treehouse in mill valley.
Hope you are well.
The tiny homes book looks incredible (if I never told you)!
Best, jay nelson
“Joe Everson builds portable tiny houses made to be taken with someone, wherever they may wander. The 100 to 120 square foot houses are built on trailers and are being used all over the country for people who want a minimalist and mobil lifestyle. The company is named Tennessee Tiny Homes.”
“The Tiny House’s overall size is 8′ x 18′ and it is built on a standard trailer. We can custom design and build to your specifications.
The Tiny House is ideal for:
ultra-efficient green home / guest house / teenager’s room / vacation cabin / rental apartment / retreat center housing / home office/ personal studio.”
Click here.
This website shows that there are, by golly, some very good residential architects out there: https://themoderncabin.com/
This building, called The Walkabout, by Nick Deaver and Stacy Pearson
Yogan is a skillful and prolific French carpenter whose treehouse was in Tiny Homes (pp. 154-55). Isn’t this a beauty?
hi lloyd!
i want to you see our new cabine, the house of Menthé:
https://shltr.net/cabaneMenthe
wheels and water is finish?
when you come in france?
yogan
“Beijing’s People’s Architecture Office (PAO) and People’s Industrial Design Office (PIDO) have designed and built a mobile home so small that it can be folded up, accordion-style, and carted around on the back of a tricycle.…”
here i sit propped up in bed, an ice machine hooked up to my shoulder, macair and iPhone 5 at hand, (such a modern guy!), typing with one finger/no caps. (making less mistakes.) i had rotator cuff surgery yesterday, something i’ve put off for years because of the long recovery period, but all the years of propelling self through world, shoulder strain of paddling surfboards, kayaks, and the inevitable falls from running, biking, skateboarding — and rotator cuff tear needed fixing.
i feel so great now that it’s done, and i’m day one into the 6-week/3-month markers, and full strength at 6 months. grrrr!
it’s really a great time for shelter right now. the tiny homes book just took another jump. 40,000+ copies in one year
v. interesting article in bankrate, the big financial services website, last week. writer sonya stinson wrote a well-balanced article on tiny homes here, focusing on the practical, rather than the bohemian/artistic domiciles. i got quoted accurately, for once:
“Kahn says the current tiny-homes movement, spurred partly by the downturn in the economy, is a bit of a throwback to the late ’60s and early ’70s.… It’s an idea that’s been around, but all of a sudden a lot of people are thinking in terms of getting smaller rather than larger,” says Kahn.”
“(He) has noticed a growing interest among boomers in building small accessory dwelling units to accommodate aging parents.…Portland, Ore., and Santa Cruz, Calif., have ordinances that make it easier for people to build these additional units in their backyards,” he says.…
what’s interesting is that sonya has made a case, with examples, of a mainstream approach for smaller homes. not everyone wants a tiny home, but the concept of small-er is a very powerful idea in these difficult (and scarce) times.
Photo: (c)johny87-fotolia.com
music du jour, and i’m sure i’ve mentioned it a few times, sam cooke’s masterpiece “live at harlem square” playing on grooveshark right now. “…that’s not all sam will do for you.”
spring is gonna be a powerhouse this year…
