In 2002, He co-founded the Small House Society in Iowa City, Iowa. In 2003 he was commissioned by Gregory Paul Johnson to build The Mobile Hermitage, which became one of Tumbleweed’s first commercially sold homes. When Did Tiny Houses Get Popular? Turns out to be that during theKatrina ...
So, now we have a couple of completely unsustainable boxes masquerading as houses which no one wants to live in unless it's this or homeless. The rent money goes directly to the already wealthy landlord. You can't make them into homes, you'd never be able to live in one of these if...
Many according to the city's developers who are all asking over that amount for the apartments on this map. The sizes of the units on this list, which was created byPropertyShark, go from 446 to 555 square feet, and prices go from $1.03M to $1.5M. Unsurprisingly, all these apartments...
Tiny houses have their pros and cons, and so do tiny apartments! So, how do you choose? The most important thing to remember is that you have to weigh your options to know which will work best for your lifestyle. However, at the end of the day, many people find that tiny houses ar...
My neighborhood is filled with amusing apartment names which I regularly admire and contemplate on my walks. Many of the complexes were built in the 1950s and 60s and I can’t help but wonder how and why they got their names. Take for example the “Leonara Jay” Apartments below. Who ...
In a recent post entitled Tiny House Living: the Ultimate Un-Making Project? I outlined my deeper motivation for going tiny. I started to make the case for why tiny house living is more about the intention to live simply and with less reliance on external things for happiness than it is ...
Small and efficient homes, whether in the city, out in the country or even on the road, are becoming more and more popular. Interior design innovations are helping more and more people realize that, sometimes, less can be more! As more people move into cities (and tiny apartments), effici...
Last week, New York City mayor Bloomberg announced a design competition for new “micro-unit” apartments ranging from 275 to 300 square feet (press release). The goal is to address the increasing demand by smaller households, as the average rent for a studio in Manhattan is now $2,065 a...
Often used to refer to million dollar New York high rise apartments, co-op is also found in campgrounds! Unlike a condo; in a co-op you do not own real estate, but rather a share of stock together with a (proprietary) lease for occupancy. The campgrounds’ real estate is owned by th...
and sharing both beds and apartments with some of my hosts, it was actually a pretty incredible situation. For the first time since perhapsHelsinki, and I had an entire apartment to myself. As excited as I was to actually get out and see the city, there was something about that circumsta...