Yearly archive for 2009

Cozy Couple In A Tiny House

If they can make it there, they can make it anywhere. Zaarath and Christopher Prokop — and their two cats — live in the smallest apartment in the city, a 175-square-foot “microstudio” in Morningside Heights the couple bought three months ago for $150,000. At 14.9 feet long

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Cage Homes

I found this story over at CNN, its about cage homes in Hong Kong.  If you haven’t heard about these, they are essentially bunkbeds that are sealed off with cage wire so that people can lock them when they aren’t there.  They are the size of a

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11 Low Energy Cooking Tips

Every single week day, people come back home after a day of work and almost simultaneously start using lots of energy intensive-things; they turn on the television, the computer, turn on the lights if it’s dark, they plug in their cell phones and gadgets… And then they

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EXO HOUSE

Last week I wrote about the Katrina Cottages, which where used to help address the need for housing after Hurricane Katrina. I then found this designer who talks about how FEMA addressed housing need before these where built. We used camper trailers, according to this article: 102,000

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House Trucks

We have had several readers write in about house trucks, which isn’t a new concept by any means, but perhaps a precursor to tiny houses?  They have a certain charm to them that RV’s lack and makes me think of gypsies for some reason.  Anyway, there is

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