Couple’s budget home & tropical food forest in dirt-road Hawaii

November 28, 2023 john 20 18272 24:23

Matt Holton and Cristina Pineda were living on Maui where the average home price is a million dollars when they heard about lots on the Big Island selling for about 20K. They bought an acre for 22K, and with no building experience, soon began to build their own home. Near the rim of the Kīlauea…

Didn’t want to move out. They built modern prefab on roof instead

November 12, 2023 john 20 35852 11:55

An Austin couple wanted to add on to their two-bedroom bungalow, but they didn’t want to move out and they didn’t want to use backyard space, so architect Nicole Blair decided to attach an ADU (accessory dwelling unit) to their roof. The steel structure was prefabbed off-site, and in less than 24 hours, it was…

UK Actors’ Spectacular Tiny Home On London Outskirts!

November 3, 2023 john 18 131495 21:28

#sponsored @audible This episode is sponsored by Audible! Go to https://audible.com/livingbigtinyhouse or text livingbigtinyhouse to 500-500 for your free trial! – In this weeks episode we find ourselves on the outskirts of London visiting a couple of actors who have built themselves the most remarkable tiny home! A DIY build using almost entirely reclaimed materials,…

Single Mom builds $30k Tiny House on Foundation ($60k w/land) + Yurt

October 27, 2023 john 23 51685 23:13

Meet Lupe, a single mom who lives in a beautifully imperfect & permitted tiny house on foundation with her 9-year-old son Apollo. She built it mostly by herself over 4 years with help from loved ones. Originally, Lupe wanted to live in a yurt, but due to city rules, she pivoted to a building code-compliant…

She used commercial materials to build dream 2-story ADU for $30K

October 1, 2023 john 20 48485 21:27

Christi Acevedo has spent years machining metal to make furniture so when she wanted to build a fast, fire-resistant, easily-configurable backyard home, she created a prototype from insulated metal panels. “The furniture business gave me the skills for working at a scale that is half furniture half building,” she explains. In 2015 we filmed her…

6 years building healthy natural roundhome with hempcrete & cob

September 24, 2023 john 16 26331 38:00

Neil Decker and Stella Michaels both suffered from chemical sensitivities so they spent 6 years building their home of only natural materials. They used hempcrete (hemp hurds, lime and sand) as their walls, plastered in lime (exterior) and clay (interior), with earthen cob floors. The couple didn’t think they could afford to live in California,…

Home alone in Gotham: when all you can afford is tiny dwellings

September 17, 2023 john 19 27342 28:16

Remote work and high prices have hollowed out part of the activity of vibrant city centers, and Manhattan is a symbol of such phenomenon. But the shift didn’t translate into cheaper living and rents remain prohibitive. The long-lasting reality of micro-apartments in New York shows that the need for entry-level housing has remained high over…