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Living Big In A Tiny House

Living Big In A Tiny House

Super modern South African tiny house is bright and green I have often complained that a lot of tiny houses, being modelled on larger houses that get the shrink-ray, are designed for cuteness instead of practicality, with their tiny lofts that peak in the middle. Perhaps instead of using a traditional house as a model, designers should be looking more at learning from more modern designs like Airstream trailers or boats. That's why the INDAWO / lifePOD is so interesting. This design by the South African team of Collaborate000 architects, and product designers Dokter and Missses is super modern, and very much a product of its climate. © Brett Rubin The INDAWO / lifePOD is a lifestyle and design intervention that affords home owners a comfortable, functional experience inside a small space; to live in confluence with the needs of the planet now and in the future .... “Living smaller will save you money in the long run; it could also make you happier.” © Pod Indawo

How a talented architect makes an RV look like a charming cabin in the woods The tiny house movement has become a big thing as more and more people try to live with a smaller financial, environmental and physical footprint. As Alek Lisefski noted in his Tiny Project, it's about less house and more life. It's also about laws, that regulate what can go down a road, what can go on a property under zoning bylaws, what code it gets built under. That's why so many of the tiny houses are under 8'-6" wide and weigh less than 10,000 pounds, so that they can go down the road towed by a private car and be classed as an Recreational Vehicle, or RV. © Escape/ Canoe Bay 400 square feet doesn't sound like much but it's bigger than many one bedroom apartments; you can build a really nice little house at that size. ESCAPE was conceived as a high quality cottage, not an RV. There are so many trade-offs a designer has to weigh when putting something like this together. The unit at Canoe Bay is heated by a sealed combustion, high efficiency fireplace....there is no furnace.

Tiny House – Jessica Helgerson Interior Design This little house is where Jessica and her family have been living for the last several years. It sits on a five-acre property on Sauvie Island, an agricultural island on the Columbia River 15 minutes north of Portland. The house is an interesting experiment in reduction and reuse not only because it is only 540 square feet or because it was remodeled using nearly exclusively reclaimed materials, but because the building itself is now being recycled for the fourth time. It was first built in the early 1940s as part of Vanport Village; a quickly erected development built to house shipyard workers. When Vanport Village flooded in 1948 this particular little house was floated down the river to Sauvie Island, where it became the goose-check station. When Jessica and Yianni bought the property in late 2008, they decided to remodel it without adding to the existing footprint. new floors are local Oregon white oak, and the dining table was made from locally salvaged walnut.

Les hikikomori : ces Japonais qui s’enferment chez eux à cause de la crise La crise économique que subit le Japon depuis le début des années 1990 a fait émerger un être étrange : l’hikikomori. Ce sont, pour la plupart, des hommes qui vivent reclus chez eux depuis plus de 6 mois, comptant généralement sur leurs parents pour survivre. Ils ne travaillent pas, ne font pas d’études, ne sortent pas, ne rencontrent personne, sans pour autant souffrir d’une quelconque maladie mentale. Dans les rues de Tokyo (lire notre reportage), la misère se fait discrète. Outre la situation économique difficile, le phénomène prend racine dans l’organisation particulière de la société japonaise. Autre explication possible : les mutations culturelles du pays.

Tiny House Pins Tiny Home Builders I was introduced to Dan Louche when he started building his first tiny house, a house for his mom. Since then Dan has been very busy building homes, designing house plans, filming how-to videos, and writing a construction guide. His tiny house business is now one of the most evolved and offers some of the best learning materials for owner-builders. Note: Dan is currently running a 20% OFF sale on all the things in his store (plans, book, ebook, videos). Use coupon code 10off when checking out on his website. Here are some of the items he offers: Tiny House Design & Construction Guide - Dan has written a book based on his personal learnings from building tiny houses. Visit the Tiny House Builders website to learn more.

The Tiny Home Building Podcast, helping you live the tiny house lifestyle! This post I’m going to tell you everything you need to know about the Honda EU2000i generator and generartors in general. I have spent the past 2+ years building a house and living off grid. For me the generator is an essential tool for everyday living. The EU series of generator is very popular with RV’ers, sailboat guys, tailgaters, campers, cabin lovers, and other recreational users. Key Features The Honda EU2000 is the size of a medium beer cooler and weighs about 50 pounds with just under a gallon of fuel. What can it power? I managed to build my Bodega with every power tool I own without issue. What about 12V? The EU2000 has a 12 volt DC output that can be accessed using a special cable available for cheap from Honda. 12V adaper cable with alligator clips You will discover that the 12 volt output makes a truly awful battery charger if you try and use it for that purpose. Fuel Consumption A word of caution about fuel. Alternative fuels? Inverter vs Traditional Generators Honda EU Lineup

About the Tiny Project | The Tiny Project | Mini Houses. More Life. What is the Tiny Project? The Tiny Project is my attempt to live a simpler, more conscious, debt-free life, and in doing so helping to set and example and educate the community about alternative, affordable, more sustainable ways of living. Alek & Anya Anjali My name is Alek Lisefski. I’m a web designer by trade, and have a passion for the visual arts, the great outdoors, architecture, and all things natural and beautiful. The main aspect of the Tiny Project is to build a tiny house. This website will chronicle my experiences in design, planning and construction of my own tiny house, and all of the difficulties and lifestyle changes associated such an endeavor. What is a tiny house? Protohaus Interior Tumbleweed’s Walden The tiny house movement is rapidly gaining popularity in the US and elsewhere around the world. Tiny houses built on trailers have their own set of restrictions, mostly with regard to size. For more info on the tiny house I am building, see My Tiny House Plans

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The best Tiny house plans Step by step DIY with video on the planet! | Kevinsmicrohomestead Blog Thats right I am beginning a project that will be the most comprehensive complete step by step do it yourself plans for building a tiny house on the planet!! If you want a tiny house and the only thing stopping you is HOW TO you wont need to know anything and you can follow this DVD video series . This project will give you everything you need to know from start to finnish.The plans will show you how to find a trailer buy all your building materials (like how many 2×4 and sheets of plywood screws and nails windows and doors ect…)You can send a fax copy to the building centers to price the best package and have them set it up for pick up or delivery for you.Next know what tools you need and every cut of every board in the project.Watch the DVD s and get step by step instruction as you put your house together just like you have a contractor standing there helping you. Please share this post and comment or ask all the questions you like to let me know your interest thanks .:) Like this:

My Chemical-Free House littleyellowdoor | The scatterbrained construction of a happy wee house… | Page 2 Life in Little Yellow is wonderful. It’s actually very much like normal, but without the things that used to bug me about living in other people’s spaces. In fact, most everything that pissed me off or stressed me out in previous living situations is no longer problematic. I’m not stepping on anyone’s toes, I can move or change whatever, whenever, and everything I love is organized all nice-like under one roof. Basically? It’s like the whole thing is one big relief. The timing of my move north has been so serendipitous it’s crazy. 3 days after arriving, I had a job, made an awesome friend, and met my awesome boyfriend who happens to think Little Yellow is as great as I do. So! Living situation: I live on a little ranch down the hill from my landlords’ house in a pretty wee field with a nice set of bushes and trees just beside; a perfectly adequate distance so as to be totally left on my own. Storage: Storage and space in this house amaze me. Maybe it’s a magical house. Kitchen: Shower:

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