“In 1935, the famous conservationist Aldo Leopold bought a worn out farm along the Wisconsin River to live close to the land. The homestead was his grand experiment in attempting to bring life back to Dust Bowl era terrain. Over the course of more than a decade the family of seven planted nearly 50,000 trees … Read more
Just for fun, click the following link to see hundreds of interior photos of school buses converted into beautiful tiny homes. This link may or may not be permanent. If it doesn’t work then you can search for keywords Schoolie Interiors and find the same thing in an Image search such as Google Images. Depending on the search phrase you use, you’ll have hundreds of photos of bus conversions, van conversions, tiny houses, etc. at your fingertips.
“Verena Maeder is owner of SOLID EARTH LTD since 2002 and is an earth building artisan with 19 years experience in the construction of earth buildings in Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand. Verena has trained in Architecture and Building Biology and Ecology in Switzerland, where she has done a lot of research on earth building … Read more
I’m going to break from the usual type of blog post today to say thank you to my family who have helped make the last 11 years the best years of my life. They include my step-children and their mother. Readers seldom hear about them, but they’ve had a huge impact on my life and I can’t thank them enough.
This is the first video I’ve seen that shows what it’s actually like to live in a van. Nice couple with lots of good suggestions. Many of the same suggestions would apply to living in other compact spaces like tiny homes. “See what a typical day living in a van is like for a couple and a dog. See us working in the van, living in the van and living out of the van.”
Why Building Geometry Matters by Allen Dusault “In 1853 a rather eccentric gentleman named Orson Fowler published a book entitled, “The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building”. The book was a best seller of its day and it spurred a short-lived nationwide fad of building houses (and some barns) in an octagon shape, a … Read more