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Seeking Tiny Home Builder

August 19, 2012 at 3:21 pm

Dear Lloyd

Summer greetings!

i have been trying to find a builder who would be able to build a small room (6×12) on wheels for me and have contacted quite a few of the builders in your books and have not been able to hire anyone yet.

i wonder if you have a suggestion…there must be someone who would love to do this. i need to use very healthy materials as i deal with extreme chemical sensitivities and so i will use materials like coconut oil, pure bees wax , and woods that i am not allergic to…like wormy maple, alder, hopefully i can work with someone willing and loving not to use any glues, store bought windows, sheet goods as my health is important now. there must be someone who would love to do this and i have spoken to many in your books and many are very busy! and not willing to change their building way.

Much Love and light,

Marta

I asked Marta for additional info:

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Deek Diedrickson’s Tiny House Building Workshop #3

August 16, 2012 at 1:18 am

“Tiny House Building Workshop #3 OFFICIALLY announced/details….

Want to build a tiny, tiny house and hang with many like-minded tiny-obsessed people? Read on….read on…..

-BUILD a tiny guest house as a group

-TOUR tiny houses and view many examples of recycled-material construction

-HEAR from many guest speakers, and tiny house dwellers

-SEE several building-related demos

-SMELL freshly cut lumber….ok, ok, I just tossed that one in their for the heck of it….”

Deek is FUN, and the author (and prolific illustrator) of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts: And Whatever the Heck Else We Could Squeeze in Here

Workshop, click here.

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Old California Goldminer’s Shack

August 14, 2012 at 12:33 pm

I’ve said it before, but Kent Griswold’s Tiny House Blog is just the best thing going for tiny homes on the blogosphere. A feature I really like is his “Tiny House in a Landscape” category, of which this is the latest. “…photographs taken by Linda Lacy from California. Linda says: I took these photos at Malakoff Diggings, a California State Park that has been “cut” from the state budget. This is a wonderful area with lots of tiny houses.…”

This photo is at: https://shltr.net/thlandscp

To my eye, this is a perfect little building. Everything looks right. Got soul.

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Hand-built Earthen House in Washington Woods

August 9, 2012 at 5:04 pm

“…free-form, hand-built earthen home in western Washington’s Independence Valley is featured on a recent episode of Peak Moment TV. Host Janaia Donaldson calls it ‘a magical dwelling inside the woods.’

   The funky, individualistic two-story home was built by Gregory Crawford, who works at nearby Rising River Farm — and travels during the farm’s off season (having no mortgage helps, no doubt). He gained permission to build there by asking the landowner.…” https://shltr.net/gregscob

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Hermits of the Third Millennium

August 8, 2012 at 9:43 pm

“Five years of photographing individuals who live in self-imposed isolation from society did not make Carlo Bevilacqua want to become a hermit himself. But it did make him more conscious of the choices he makes, and more aware of his real material needs.

   “You don’t need so much to live,” Mr. Bevilacqua said. “Our life is not our stuff.”

   Mr. Bevilacqua’s subjects live by themselves, separate from others, by choice. Some have had religious visions and pursue study or prayer. Others are spiritually inclined, but not religious in the classical sense. Then, there are those who just don’t like being among other people in modern society. But all live a life of intentional simplicity and isolation.”

https://shltr.net/O4AVk5

From Ed Forgotson

Note: See comment by rj for more info on this place.

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