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.

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.”…