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…
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…
Meet Jeramy & Kevin, a dynamic build/design duo with a passion for sustainable, simple small homes–tiny houses, cabins, and ADUs. An excellent example of their work is their Haye’s accessory dwelling unit. It’s a 35.7 sqm / 384 sqft tiny house backyard cottage built & designed by Nanostead. They also share top small space design…
In Paradise Valley (Montana) there are 52 underground bunkers, capable of housing hundreds of people. They were built in the 1980s to prepare for nuclear fallout. When Dean Anderson found one for sale by owner, he snapped it up for a good price since it was filled with 45,000 pounds of dried food. “Basically to…
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…
If you aspire to turn your garden, big or small, into a highly productive food garden, Craig is offering an exclusive special price to the Living Big audience for his Food Garden Transformation course. Find out more here: https://www.shambhalaliving.com.au/livingbigspecialoffer Now this is a place that has it all! Shambhala Farm is an incredibly special farm…
In an effort to return to a more simple way of living, with reduced overheads and more time together in nature, this adventurous family gave up their city apartment, built a beautiful off-the-grid tiny house and moved to the remote Australian wilderness where they could live free and wild. Situated in a hard to access…
What do you think of this 480 square foot tiny house? Full tour and interview with Maxime, who built and lives in the house with his girlfriend. We asked Maxime why he chose to build a house this size, how he found a legal place to put it, and what it’s like now that he’s…
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