He built remote dome cabin amid freezing Siberian wilderness for $1K

November 19, 2023 john 21 37046 16:03

Bio-architect Alosha Lynov has experienced his own Tolstoyan Odyssey: interested in natural building, he taught himself to design and build shelters with materials and shapes inspired by Nature that resemble an Arctic version of Antoni Gaudí’s designs. Alosha pushes his version of eco-construction to the limits so his “buriable” shelters “can handle the harshest and…

This French Tiny House is a Multifunctional Marvel!

November 10, 2023 john 20 127112 12:56

This week we travel to France to visit a stunning DIY tiny house built using natural, reclaimed materials. It’s absolutely packed full of storage and clever multifunctional design ideas and all for an incredible budget of just US$20,000! This tiny house has everything! For me, this is another great example of a tiny home that…

Their roof apartment is charming. Their gourmet pizza truck is wild

October 29, 2023 john 20 24885 15:57

Sam Ciccarelli and Rosie Dooley live in a kaleidoscopic attic home that is a maze of triangles, tunneled bedrooms and expansive skylights that have inspired them to launch a one-of-a-kind pizza venture. The couple, who met while working at the famed Chez Panisse, sell wild-fermented pizzas cooked in a 2,000-pound, igloo-shaped oven bolted to the…

All burned down. They built natural home & restored land: only better

October 22, 2023 john 23 25091 22:28

Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper have built natural homes with passive solar techniques and powered by renewables since the seventies, so when in August 1994 a wildfire destroyed their property and home, they decided to rebuild them back, only better. They used fire-resistive strawbale walls for their new studio and home, built next to the…

Young 70-year-old builds tall (tree)house amid rainforest paradise

October 8, 2023 john 20 28428 18:43

Wendy Green had spent most of her life in suburban New Jersey long days as a yoga teacher so when she turned 50, she sold her house and used the proceeds to buy remote land in the Andes. There she built an all-wood, tall and narrow, home, installed solar, a gravity-fed water system and planted…

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,…

You’ll be SHOCKED by This Modern TINY Home!

September 1, 2023 john 26 27411 07:18

Our Urban Park Max: Where Urban Luxury Meets Tiny Living! Introducing our latest creation, the Urban Park Model. This model stretches an impressive 39 feet in length, making it the largest urban park model built by Tru Form. Seamlessly blending urban sophistication with modern design, this home has a flat exterior and uses cedar exterior…

Beautiful ULTRA SMALL 16ft Tiny House Tour

February 19, 2022 john 10 274941 04:28

We’re touring an ultra-tiny tiny house with a classic floorplan that manages to fit all the essentials onto a super-compact 16′ trailer. This is The Thistle model and it was built by Summit Tiny Homes in Vernon, BC. It has a lot of charm with a gable roof and cedar shake siding, and a cozy…