For some reason, having an utterly bloated, massive “home” still appeals to some class of individuals. Mansions, they may call them, but they look and sound more like hugely oversized hotels and fortresses than anything else.
Inspiring: Hundreds of Jaw-Dropping Small Cabin and House Pics
Find inspiration in tiny homes? Like to spend time looking at how other people are creating small but livable spaces? Set aside a few hours, then, to browse the photographs at free cabin porn.
Learn About Living Off The Grid as a Homesteading Intern
Want to learn what it is really like living off the grid in a solar and wind-powered straw bale house? Want to try your hand at organic gardening and building a sauna with natural materials? Check out this internship opportunity at NE Missouri’s Red Earth Farms.
One Simple Way to Conserve Water at Home: Take a Navy Shower!
Want to save an extra 50+ gallons of water each and every day? Here’s one way you may not have considered before: take a navy shower!
6 Gorgeous Small Rustic Cottages: Sweden's Urnatur
Urnatur is a family-owned retreat and tree house hotel, with private cabins in the incredible Swedish forest. It’s a place where individuals can go to learn about traditonal skills (foraging wild foods, traditional building), or simply go for a bit of downtime.
Tiny Houses are Big! Lloyd Kahn’s Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter
Lloyd Kahn’s new book Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter delivers a fresh look at the gamut of modern tiny houses and their owners, and the sheer diversity of approaches people are taking to scale back in an era where few could deny the need to address our massive consumption of energy and resources.
Top 10 Tiny House Books: Small House Designs
In recent years, with the mainstream success of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, housing prices going through the roof, greater awareness of sustainable and ecological living issues, living in tiny homes has become an attractive option for increasing numbers of people.
Guerrilla Grafters Make Community Ornamental Trees Bear Fruit
In a subversive form of food production, the Guerrilla Grafters have been craftily grafting fruit bearing branches onto otherwise unproductive ornamental fruit trees in the city.
Sweet Wood-Fired Pizza Oven Design
There’s no doubt: people are excited about building their own DIY, inexpensive ovens for baking pizza, bread, and other delicious foods. For all of those folks, I want to highlight this particularly unique design for a wood-fired pizza oven, built in a greenhouse.
How to Build a Clean Fire: The Top-Down Fire
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there’s more than one way to build a fire. But that doesn’t mean they are all equal: the top-down fire (or upside down fire) is perhaps the most efficient and cleanest way to build a fire.
Celebrate Thanksgiving With Local Foods Recipes
Local foods play a big role in my life. I’m dedicated to eating as locally as possibly, and growing as much of my own food as I reasonably can. When there are foods I need to buy, I try to make sure they are organic and seasonal.
Great Green Home Insulation Product: Sheep's Wool Batting
Wool is one of the best natural insulators — think of how precious that favorite wool sweater of yours is, or those toasty wool socks you can’t leave home without on a cold winter day. Well, the benefits of wool extend to keeping your house comfortable, too — it is a fantastic, highly insulative, and energy-efficient material that is a superior material for saving on home heating and cooling expenses.
Small Strawbale Book Spotlights Attractive Tiny Straw Bale Homes
Building small homes is an increasing nation-wide trend, and similarly, natural building methods are picking up steam and gaining recognition in the movement towards more sustainable lifestyles. Small Strawbale a [ … ]