While I was up at the lake, Dennis lent me his copy of Put Your Life on a Diet: Lessons Learned from Living in 140 sq Feet by Gregory Johnson. I read it a couple times now and I liked it a lot. After a divorce, the author found himself living in a small studio [...]
simplicity
The rustic re-use cabin
I live this a lot and it only cost $15,000.00 so far to build. Paul Stankey (of hive Modular prefab fame) and his brother Scott (and their wives) have (almost) completed the container cabin they’ve been building on their family property in northern Minnesota for the past nine years. Cost so far: $15,000. Readymade Digital [...]
Alternatives
to living in the McMansion. The micro-compact home or the Tiny Tumbleweed Housing Company which are not much smaller than my house Of course another option to sprawling burbs is living in a shipping container. I link to these because a couple of years ago Wendy brought home a magazine and it hard a feature [...]
The Beauty of Simplicity
An article on simplicity in design in Fast Company.. To make it to the home page, a new service needs to be so compelling that itwill garner millions of page views per day. Contenders audition on the advanced-search page; if they prove their mettle–as image search did, growing from 700,000 page views daily to 2 [...]
