Inside a FREE TINY HOUSE in Japan

February 5, 2023 john 19 2074880 10:44

Today were taking a peek at a FREE Tiny House. Japan is filled with abandoned properties and many of them are Free (Yes we will cover how you can get an abandoned home in Japan!) With millions of abandoned Japanese homes (or Akiya) up for grabs, I thought it would be time to take a…

He managed to wear 40K tattoos. No wonder he can live in 14m2

April 24, 2022 john 21 67672 15:54

Alfredo Meschi converted a 14m2 living room (150 square feet) into a home for only 2000 euros by using recycled wood to create a kitchen, elevated sofa/bed and walls to make the apartment self-contained. He knocked out the fireplace to create an off grid toilet system: an electric toilet with greywater pipes from the shower…

Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces

March 17, 2019 john 17 32951805 09:38

When Christian Schallert isn’t cooking, dressing, sleeping or eating, his 24 square meter (258 square feet) apartment looks like an empty cube. To use a piece of furniture, he has to build it. Located in Barcelona’s hip Born district, the tiny apartment is a remodeled pigeon loft. Designed by architect Barbara Appolloni, Christian says the…

Vacated harbor crane becomes tiny flat perched over Amsterdam

August 20, 2018 john 19 127562 13:37

Figee crane 2868 sat abandoned in Amsterdam’s Eastern Docklands for nearly four decades until a team devoted to boutique apartments rehabbed it into a three-story luxury apartment perched 50 meters (164 feet) above the IJ-River. When containers took over the shipping industry in the 1970s, the cranes on KNSM Island (“Royal Dutch Steamboat Company” island)…

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

October 19, 2014 john 0 39

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…

“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,…