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Why this family of 5 is moving into a 300-square-foot home
Nathan Monk knows how it feels to be homeless. "We lost our original house, and then we began bouncing back and forth between friends' houses, hotels, and cars," he told TODAY.com about his childhood. "A mythical promise had been built up by our parents that once everything was okay and we were out of poverty, we'd get to go on an epic vacation to Disney World."
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The Cable Hut
Back in the days where love letters and drift bottles were amongst the few means of communication, The Cable Hut was built to house the first telephone lines being laid across the Atlantic Ocean. Over 100 years later The Cable Hut captured the heart of a passing couple who have lovingly transformed it into a unique luxury self-catering cottage.
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This Tinyhome Trailer Is A Modern Mobile Masterpiece
Hitch up a house that looks like it should be in a museum.
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Portable, solar-powered ecocapsules mean you can live rent- and electric-bill free, globally
If you’ve just had it with taking the subway, or sitting in an office, or just generally being around other people, you may be in luck. Slovakian firm Nice Architects has built an egg-shaped “Ecocapsule” that runs entirely on solar and wind energy, allowing its dweller(s) to live both literally, and figuratively, off the grid. The completely self-sustaining portable home contains a 9,744 watt-hour battery, a 750 watt wind turbine, and high-efficiency solar cells that can support...
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A Slender Geothermal Cottage in London
On an eight-foot-wide site in London, architect Luke Tozer cleverly squeezed in a four-story home equipped with rain-water-harvesting and geothermal systems.
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D House
A cliff top home in Matanzas, Chile. Photos by Cristobal Valdes. Designed by Panorama Arquitectos.
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You Can Take this Little Wind and Solar Powered Home Anywhere
If life in a future megacity isn’t for you, your hour of escape is fast approaching. Especially if you don’t mind living alone in a 14 x 7 x 7-foot pod.
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'Small is Beautiful' casts honest, often heartbreaking light on tiny house movement
“Small is Beautiful,” Australian filmmaker Jeremy Beasley’s new feature-length documentary on the stateside tiny house movement, isn’t really about tiny houses. Sure, the phrase “tiny house” is uttered roughly every other sentence though the crowdfunded film’s 108-minute running time. And, yes, the veritable parade of dainty hand-built dwellings that appear throughout Beasley’s beautifully shot debut will appease the most ardent of small living devotees.
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Wilde Wood created varies types of beautiful living room.
Living room is the place where people spending most of his time so its should be constructed beautifully, we are earlier created lots of living room, if are you interested so you can see there our older constructed living room.
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Local students build tiny house for homeless
City leaders estimate on any given night that about 4,000 people sleep on the streets or in shelters across Portland. Local students are hoping to make a small dent in that statistic.
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Tiny 'Thin Home' In Vancouver Sells For $1.35 Million
Believed to be the last of its kind, a rare "thin home" has sold in Vancouver for $1.35 million. Built in the late '80s and tucked away in the city's upscale Point Grey neighbourhood, the split-level home is a mere 3.6 metres (12 feet) wide. The floor space is only 945 sq.-ft., but manages to cram in a full kitchen, master bedroom, living room, garage, den and 1.5 bathrooms, according to its listing.
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Live small, be happy? The next new big thing
Long commutes, soaring property prices and the tiny house movement has made way for a big idea for small living. Enter the micro-flat.
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South Side could see Syracuse's first tiny homes for the homeless
Two Syracuse nonprofit groups have teamed up to build tiny homes for the homeless this summer on the city's South Side. Using proceeds from this year's Crawfish Festival on May 2 in Clinton Square, the volunteers hope to construct four residences, each with just 250 square feet of living space. The building site has not been locked up, but organizers hope to acquire vacant land for the project near the corner of South Avenue and West Kennedy Street.
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Weekend Cabin Feature: Summit Springs Ranch, Idaho
The 700-square-foot cabin on Summit Spring Ranch, Idaho is the embodiment of a new approach to development, one that aims to conserve, restore, protect, and model a lighter way of living.
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A Snowboarder's Unbelievable Tiny House
Pro-snowboarder, Mike Basich, tours his self-built 225 square foot home in the middle of his 40 acre snow covered property near Truckee, CA - and shows how being close to nature drives his most creative decisions.In Going Off Grid, Laura Ling examines how 180,000 Americans a year are choosing to live entirely disconnected from our modern internet-focused world in pursuit of a more sustainable, simple lifestyle.
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Man rebuilds salvaged trailer into 200 sq. ft. tiny home, sells it on Craiglist
It doesn't seem like it, but this modern tiny home was once a regular trailer, and has been re-done as a tiny guesthouse.
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Small gardens, enlivened with imagination.
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Off-the-Grid Prefab Cabin by Jesse Garlick
Vancouver-based architect Jesse Garlick built the Sky House, a prefabricated off-grid vacation retreat. The modest 78 sqm cabin was built from solid cross-laminated timber panels and sheets of unfinished raw steel, which patina into an ochre-red – the colour of the surrounding weathered bedrock.
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New Life and Style for a 1976 Airstream
Jordan Menzel went out for a bike ride around downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, one afternoon and saw an Airstream trailer parked on the side of the road. “A few days later, I was combing Craigslist and saw it was for sale,” he says. “While I hadn’t been planning to take on a restoration project, let alone live in an Airstream, it only took a few hours for me to commence scheming.”
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Dry Creek Guest House
A restored 336 square feet guest home in Waco, Texas
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