There are so many cool tiny houses making the rounds nowadays, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of them all. But Andrew and Gabriella Morrison’s ‘hOMe’ tiny house is definitely worth tracking. The couple managed to make an elegant, light-filled,.
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Tiny Houses, as popularized in the news, are typically trailer-mounted and set up either in someone’s backyard as an ADU or are plopped out in the middle of the country. For obvious reasons, throwing them in the middle of an already-dense cityscape.
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Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention. The necessity in Portland–not to mention many other places–is housing the homeless and other economically marginalized citizens. The invention is the formation of low-cost tiny house communities throughout the city.
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Don’t be fooled by its peace-loving name, few things will defend you from the elements like a Passive House. If you’re not familiar with the term, Passive House (aka Passivhaus) is a German-born set of rigorous building standards that make a.
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Beyond mere housing dimensions, one of the underlying things that interests us here at LifeEdited is the nature of home. What does home mean? How has it changed over the years? What will it look like in the future? These.
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The trailer wheels on the bottom of tiny houses must be getting some decent traction in the American consciousness. First, they got their own movie, and now they have their own TV show. Last night was the premier episode of.
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“One man gathers what another man spills.” Grateful Dead Sculptor Gregory Kloehn wanted to do more than make art that sat in rich folks’ homes. He wanted to make useful stuff–made from unused stuff. He started a few years ago making houses from used.
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It was inevitable: those lovable, trailer-mounted tiny houses and all they represent–sustainability, non-consumerism, the DIY sensibility, off-gridded-ness, giving-the-finger-to-the-man-ness–have been immortalized in celluloid (or its digital equivalent). “TINY: A Story About Living Small” is a movie that follows one man’s epic journey.
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Few names are as closely associated with small living as Jay Shafer, the man who practically invented what is now known as the tiny house. Tiny houses have become a minimalist design and lifestyle ideal. Their tiny size permits no.
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There are approximately 105,000,000 parking spaces in the United States–five for every car. At least half of all available parking spaces are vacant 40% of the time. That’s a lot of unused space dedicated to something that, while still in wide.
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