Derek “Deek” Diedricksen’s backyard is filled with what to the untrained eye might appear children’s forts, but these tiny dwellings are actually how he makes his living (mostly). Ask him his job title and he’ll reply, “I call myself a tinkerer or I’ve come up with bizarre-chitect or lark-chitect being kind of a fake architect.”…
Full movie here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDcVrVA4bSQ I stumbled into the Small House Movement by accident of location- my parents live within miles of the tiny house poster boy Jay Shafer and his 89 square foot home-, but within a couple of years I had become a part of it as one of the few, and perhaps only,…
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-Home-by-Jon-Peters/312021729836 Website: http://jonpeters.com/ I’m building a new storage shed for my lawn mower and gardening tools. I’ve noticed that most sheds tend to rot from the bottom up and are often home to ground hogs and skunks. Because of these issues I’m taking a little more time and effort to prevent that from happening…
We first visited Austin Hay after he had just finished his sophomore year of and had built just the shell of his tiny home on wheels (based on plans donated by Jay Shafer, now of Four Lights Tiny House Company). Now, Austin is in his senior year of high school and he has finally completed…
In 1997, Jay Shafer built a tiny house on wheels that shunned trailer park conventions and attempted to mimic a classic gabled home. This act of design rebellion- coupled with Shafer’s challenge to building codes (first in Iowa City and later in California) and his co-founding of the Small House Society- helped launch a movement.…
Brad “Darby” Kittel came to Texas living on a converted school bus. He had planned to write the Great American Novel, but he ended up buying up boarded-up homes and fixing them up using materials he salvaged from other old houses, barns and buildings. After a couple decades refining his salvage mining techniques, he began…
Check out Deek’s book on DIY Tiny House, Cabin, Tree House, and Fort concepts and Ideas- HERE- http://www.amazon.com/Humble-Simple-Cottages-Ramshackle-Retreats/dp/0762771461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400683201&sr=8-1&keywords=humble+homes+simple+shacks Derek “Deek” Diedricksen of past HGTV, DIY Network, History Channel, and Make Magazine credits, gives us a tour of the Tennessee Tiny Homes compound outside Memphis- a cottage-industry business (literally) run by Joe Everson and his wife…
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