Tag: Deek

From this angle my little cabin in the woods DOES somewhat resemble a mushroom, with its top heavy, large-overhang roof n’ all …and you thought this post had something to do with drugs!? tisk, tisk.” – Deek

I just love this simple shot I took of the interior of my tiny, tiny, tiny house on wheels- well, more like a camper or cabin for now- “The Cub”. It will have another bed/bench/storage combo set-up down below soon, a small bathroom/toilet area on the tongue of the trailer, and a few other add-ons, like a “pet-peek” domed window in the sleep bunk space. More to come! …Continues

ANYWAY, I LOVE THIS! I have a plan in my book “Humble Homes, Simple Shacks” that is semi-similar in approach, in that it uses MANY free and recycled doors as its wall panels, but this a great twist, and something I’ve contemplated before as well. I love A-frames, and love freebie construction materials, so this one’s a no brainer. I also really dig the vibrant colors that EARTHSCAPE (a natural building firm from Toronto) employed.” –Deek

HANDS-ON BUILDING AND DESIGNING- TINY HOUSE WORKSHOP #5 (with an emphasis on budget and recycled-material building)

WE WILL ALL BUILD A TINY STRUCTURE TOGETHER!

November 15-16-17 Canton, MA

As featured on NPR, Yahoo.com, The Boston Globe, Make Magazine…

 I had a chance to hang with two great guys the other weekend- Lloyd Kahn (from Shelter Publications- Author of “Tiny Homes, Simple Shelter”, and Kent Griswold, of TinyHouseBlog.com. I had hung/met with both of these guys separately before, so it was great to catch up and “talk shop”. Inside the offices of “Shelter Publications”- home-run, on a homestead, by home-addict, Lloyd Kahn.” – Deek

Here’s a great shot from ONE of MANY cabins that the Blue Moon Rising tiny house compound (a retreat and educational center) has on its property. You can rent these out to get a taste for tiny house and cabin living- perhaps to see if its right for you/feasible. I really think this is a GREAT approach: Stay a night at a tiny cabin or rental listing, or two/three, and get a feel for what works, and what doesn’t, first hand. I’ve stayed in several listed micro-properties, and its money well spent!
Anyhow, from this one single photo, here’s what I really like with this particular set-up/design.

On my way to Acadia Maine I made the family roadster take a u-turn so I could hop out and shoot a few photos of these great looking little cabins/tiny houses at the Sunset Motel/Motor Lodge in Ellsworth, Maine.

What the heck!?? You know those front porch posts, most commonly seen in the tiny house world on the Tumbleweed Fencl models? Well, here’s the style post I’ll be getting when I work on another custom tiny house design and build down the road.

Today’s post/discussion is on hardware, most specifically door knobs.

I just recently flew out to San Francisco for a guest speaking gig at a Tumbleweed Tiny House Workshop to talk about recycled-material building- a means to keep a vast array of material out of landfills, and a vast array of cash IN your wallet.

It makes perfect sense to me, yet time and time again I find people giving this notion the “its not worth my time” shrug off. Well, that’s fine by me, as it leaves more to salvage for the rest of us I suppose. No, really though, you should rethink this and give it a shot! Hear me out….

I’m bringing this one back, as I look through my saved sketches from my oooooold school book/zine titled “Quick Camps And Leg Cramps”- two versions of this mini book were self-released long ago (only about 200 copies in all), and are now out of print. I WILL re-release the book at some point- probably in PDF form- and an enhanced version of it, perhaps one with a full-out, step by step plan of another new, unseen tiny house or micro-structure.