Greenhouse room built out of old auto windshields siliconed together. Stained glass is siliconed onto inside of glass.
A new documentary film has just been completed about the late artist and builder Mike Kahn, Lloyd’s cousin. Here’s a trailer:
This amazing transforming house truck, created by New Zealanders Justin and Jola, compacts into a street-legal truck (with turrets). Once parked, the house truck completely folds out, expands immensely, and transforms into a fantasy castle.
The truck in its compact, ready-to-roll form
Peter and Donna Thomas were featured in our book Tiny Homes on the Move with their gypsy wagon. They recently sent us this photo and caption of their vintage streetcar:
Tiny home campsite made with our 1926 converted Melbourne W-2 streetcar as living room.
See YouTube for more about the trolley:
–Peter Thomas
Madison’s newest and smallest neighborhood makes its debut. Tiny House Village on East Johnson Street is a project to offer shelter to some of Madison’s homeless population. Occupy Madison created it three years ago with a goal of helping the homeless get back on their feet.
The buildings of Yogan, a French carpenter and Natural Man in France, have been featured in Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter, and in Tiny Homes on the Move. Here he is in another of Kirsten Dirksen’s excellent videos on building and homesteading:
Michael “Bug” Deakin grew up in British Columbia, one of 10 kids in the family. He built his first house in 1970 out of used materials and these days runs Heritage Salvage, a large yard in Petaluma, Calif., filled with hand-hewed beams, flooring, barn doors, and all kinds of salvaged building materials. I love roaming around his yard. There are treasures there, as there are in this book.
He’s an irrepressibly dynamic, cheerful, funny guy (disclaimer: I know him) and this is a scrapbook of his colorful world and history. There are stories: building homes, gardens, furniture and movie sets (including for McCabe and Mrs. Miller), planting trees, tearing down old buildings all over America, a touching (and happy) tale of first meeting his daughter when she was 40 and their immediate rapport, of hanging out with Tom Waits.
He’s a dynamo for all good things and this a charming introduction to Bug’s World.
Links:
Jake and Kiva have produced a YouTube series of construction videos documenting a tiny home build on Vancouver Island. The videos follow their tiny house project, from early design to completion and beyond showing materials, tools, and construction techniques. A 3D Google Sketchup plan is also available as a free download.
Check out their videos below:
In this episode, we introduce ourselves and catch you up on what we’ve done so far.
In this episode, we talk about the trailer that we have acquired for the project, why we chose it, and the process we went through to get it.
Hey Lloyd,
Here is a little byproduct of a hike I took across Austria this summer. Thought it might suit your eclectic and encyclopedic mind. Enjoy.
All the best,
–Robert Van Vranken
Peacham, Vermont
Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart were tired of paying San Francisco rents and had always dreaming of living in a shipping container so for less than one month’s rent they bought a used shipping container ($2,300 from the Port of Oakland) and began to convert it into a home.
They rented an abandoned lot near the port in West Oakland where they parked their new home and began renting out other containers to friends, while experimenting to create an ideal transportable home. Their 160-square-foot home cost less than the price of a car to fit out. Read More …
“SunRay Kelley’s human-electric hybrid SunRayzor bike is ready to ride. SunRay electrified his made-in-the-USA recumbent Catrike with a 72-volt Crystalyte hub motor and lithium-ion batteries. A custom-built rain shield and interchangeable windshield round out the package.”
Lots of SunRay’s creations — cob, straw bale, timber frameworks, stoves, saunas, yurts, and multiple inventions can be seen on his website: www.sunraykelley.com.
Hi Lloyd,
I have just made another little film about my Dad and the building which was featured in your book Tiny Homes — “Big Sky Yurt” (pp. 130-31).
It’s much shorter than the last one and gone down a storm with lots of tiny house lovers.
Hi Lloyd,
I am 17 years old and currently living in the UK. I have just filmed and produced my first ever short film. It is about my dad (Scott Evans) who you featured in your last book, Tiny Homes.
Hope you enjoy it and good luck with the new book.
–Red Evans
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