Jesus Sierra’s wooden yurt in the English woods, inspired by Shelter and Home Work. It took 1½ years and is 345 sq. ft.
Our names are Karl and Monika, and we live on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada.
We pretty much have all your publications. Here is our tiny house which we built mostly out of recycled materials.
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Photo by Lloyd Kahn
Photo by Mike Basich
Mike Basich is a featured builder in Tiny Homes and in Tiny Homes on the Move, and will also be shown in or upcoming book, Small Homes: The Right Size.
Built on pilings because it’s in a flood plain. One year the water came up to the 6th step. Photo by Lloyd Kahn
This cosy forest-den certainly won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but this house which was constructed almost entirely from reclaimed materials and cost only 12 dollars to build has served as a comfortable home for David Gell for over 5 years now. Originally, the home was designed and built by an architecture student, who was studying tent design and wanted to experiment with creating super-affordable housing using reclaimed materials…
Ruth Kneass decorated this little model and brought it to my exhibit of driftwood beach shack photos on Saturday. It was filled with marzipan cookies.
In the background is one of the photos in the exhibit.
We’ll be selling our books at The Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif., in May, and we decided to build a model tiny home for display. Our friend Tom agreed to make the model. It turned out that he got into it and spent over a month (not full time) on the project. He said he could have built the full-size building in the same amount of time. It’s put together with glue. Window shutters and doors open on hinges.
The full size building is 10′ × 16′, scale here is 1 inch = 1 foot, so this is 10″ wide, 16″ long. Single wall construction (no studs).
Materials:
Siding: redwood; bats: oak
Shakes: cedar
Ridge beam and shutters: redwood
Door: walnut
Door and window trim: oakIt’s a little beauty.
Jay’s cabin, on little island near Seattle, is partly underground, with lots of south-facing windows, a garden,and view of lake. Photo by Yogan, Summer, 2015
The Building of the Cabin took 41 days. This included preparing the site for a foundation, building the timber framework, cordwooding the walls, and insulating and preparing the roof for earth, but did not include plumbing or electricity. While we built the cabin, we lived in a tent with our sons, then aged seven and five. Our days of building started at dawn and usually didn’t finish until 10 or 11 at night. We had no power or water on site; not only did this impact our building methods (everything mixed by hand, water brought to the site in drums), it also meant cold turkey from electricity for the kids.
A kitchen on Lasqueti Island built by an old carpenter named John. The whole house is very original — many curved doors.
Hi Lloyd,
I recently spent a week in one of the tiny dune shacks on the Cape Cod National Seashore — long a refuge for painters and writers, and a beautiful, improbable relic of bohemian Provincetown preserved through a long, hard fight by the community.
Regards,
–Ryan Shepard
Home decor magazine, House Beautiful, recently made its picks for the best tiny home in each state and one unique home in the woods of Bethlehem got top honor here in Connecticut.
This unique home in Bethlehem listed as an “earth house” is perfect for Eco-concious guests. The one-bedroom house available for $49 a night or $250 a week was “built from wood growing 10 feet away.”
Article from www.ctpost.com/…
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