Jeff Dean sent us some photos and links to his buildings and unique joinery. See his buildings here, and  the photos of his work and links he sent us on The Shelter Blog here.

Movers and shakers of the tiny house community, including Jay Shafer and Deek Diedricksen, will convene at the campus of Tiny Texas Houses on October 10-12 to discuss many aspects of the subject. It’s about 45 minutes south of Austin. I’ll be there doing a presentation on Tiny Homes on the Move. Info here.

Rick Gordon has built it and we’ve been tinkering with it for a few months, and finally it feels ready to go. Whereas my blog is all over the place, The Shelter Blog will focus on homes, building, carpentry, gardening, farming, foraging, fishing, homesteading and the home arts. Check it out here:

https://www.theshelterblog.com

Note: it’s theshelterblog.com, not shelterblog.com. You need the article the.

I’m really excited by this. It’s as important — maybe in the long run more so — than one of our books. We have no competition here, since we have feedback from our 40 years publishing books on the subject of shelter. Plus we can share brand-new incoming photos and stories rather than wait years to get same into a book. It’ll be complimentary to our books.

We guarantee at least one new post per day, hope to get multiple posts daily as we get rolling.

“Gregory Kloehn goes dumpster diving, but not for the reason that most people would think. He isn’t homeless. In fact, he is an artist from Oakland that is trying to help the homeless and develop his craft at the same time.

Instead of building sculptures that he would sell to rich people to add to their massive homes, he decided to focus his efforts on helping house the homeless population in California.…He uses what he collects to build small, one room shelters for the homeless.…”

Click here and here.

“…tiny home with double bed, fitted kitchen, bathroom and widescreen TV (and solar panels to keep down bills)

 •Basic model of the wooden ‘microhome’ is 13ft high and costs £10,000

 •It has been designed by Dr Mike Page of the University of Hertfordshire

 •Home doesn’t need planning permission and is said to be easy to build…”

Click here.