Life in a micro house! Choosing financial freedom over space

January 26, 2024 john 20 123232 19:24

Forest and Sophia built their own home, and it’s super tiny! In this episode, they take us on a tour of their minimal micro house and explain why tiny house living works for their finances, careers, and passions. LISTEN TO THE FULL VERSION OF SOPHIA’S SONG “COUNTER”: https://sophiacorinne.bandcamp.com/track/counter _______________________ ________________________ MORE MORE MORE! CREDITS PRODUCED…

Modern hobbit house: a tiny cob home

October 20, 2014 john 60 38

Margaret Krome-Lukens shows us the cob home being built by interns at North Carolina’s Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute. Since iher new home is less than 150 square feet, she talks about the joy of giving up stuff to move in.

Mortgage-free, tiny home on a housekeeper’s salary

October 19, 2014 john 0 42

Johnny Sanphillippo has never made more than $20,000 per year (he works as a housekeeper, as well as, a gardener and house painter), but he knew like “any other American” that he wanted to own his own home. When he talked to bankers about qualifying for a home loan, “they look at you and their…

We The Tiny House People (Documentary): Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters

October 19, 2014 john 0 40

TV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen invites us on her journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops. — “This extraordinary recalibration of what it means to live the good life”- TreeHugger…

Jay Shafer: The Politics of Tiny Houses

October 18, 2014 john 66 26

In February, 2011, we spent a couple of hours with Jay Shafer (Tumbleweed Tiny House Company), in his 96 square foot house-on-wheels in Sebastopol, California. Jay is one of the more well-known and successful tiny house designers, and there’s no denying the “curb appeal” of his designs. That appeal is generated by Jay’s careful attention…

Micro-tiny homes as freedom from codes & loans

October 17, 2014 john 0 19

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.”…

“We the Tiny House People” trailer

October 17, 2014 john 80 45

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,…