Simple living
246 videos • 313,787 views • by Kirsten Dirksen
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Yuichi's slim treehouse sways as a nest in Japanese cypress
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Tokyo's impermanent skinny house made to age well with owners
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Rolling huts: metal-clad tiny wheeled homes move on a meadow
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Old windmill home pumps water & could inspire future dwellings
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How the Mississippi shantyboats helped build a culture
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He transformed old waterline war bunker into minimalist home
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Kayaker builds Hobbit Van with butterfly windows for vanlife
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A Dust Bowl chicken coop became Aldo Leopold's beloved house
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Designer builds efficient off-grid Passive House in Colorado
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Couple makes garage home + campervan a consistent life combo
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Old silo now spaceship-esque tiny home in Berlin
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Polymath-plumber makes unique furniture & artifacts from waste
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Long & short stays in classic mobile homes at Oregon RV park
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Steve Job's Google of the 60s: Whole Earth + homestead tour
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Medieval Spanish ghost town becomes self-sufficient ecovillage
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Backyard farmers by necessity: self-sufficient & debt-free
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Off-grid float cabin: retirement tiny dream home in BC wilderness
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Simple wardrobe: 33 things for more happiness, less stress
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Nomadic tiny home: Mongolian yurt moves in 1 day, DIY-style
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Non-possession: seeking intense simplicity and the good life
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Simple living on a narrowboat home in West End London
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The magic of urban beekeeping: a backyard San Francisco hive
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Slow renaissance of medieval ghost town in Spanish Pyrenees
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Can suburban homesteads lead to higher well-being?
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150-mile wardrobe: local fiber, real color, P2P economy
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Didn't want student loans, converted an old Airstream as dorm
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Alternative American Dream: less house, less stuff, more travel
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Happiness research ranks commuting lowest: my car-free alternative
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Liveaboard life: minimalism in a tiny home at sea
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TreeHugger.com founder Graham Hill on LifeEdited
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DIY solar shower
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A family bike that's a go: a bicycle built for 3 (plus 1)
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Wall Street sisters leave finance to startup hotel in Barcelona
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A frugal wardrobe: think, then shop
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The burden of stuff: seeking the simple life in the Rockies
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Interviewing "Art of manliness" Brett McKay on simple living
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Can living smaller & simpler make you happier? A call-for-submissions
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Idle parents in search of a slow, free range childhood
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Slow Christmas: how we play (no shopping required)
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Thoreau's cabin redux: Jay Shafer on tiny homes and happiness
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Carfree memories
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Thoreau's simple life at Walden
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Slow Bike: no Spandex, no sweat
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Barter markets: shopping without money
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Flour sack towels & 2 generations of a home business
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Portland: why it's easy to be car-free
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A corporate campus with free bikes & an edible landscape
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School bus becomes off-grid, transformable, tiny home
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Tiny home cube: bathroom + kitchen + closet for family of 3
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Tiny matchbox apartment hides closet & bathtub in drawers
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Log cabin simplicity: recrafting pioneer tiny homes in corn Iowa
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Abandoned hayloft now small cube home on Costa Brava estate
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Small art studio as DIY unfolding home for family of 4
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Home-within-home: $2K treehouse, tiny hut in Brooklyn loft
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First they remodeled a shotgun shack, then revamped it for $700
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School bus renovated as bachelor's off-grid tiny home
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Family compound of streetcars, cob huts, treehouse & barrel
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Cuts commute with smaller home in live/work walkable complex
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Self-reliance in LA: backyard farming + radical home economics
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DIY restoration of abandoned 18th century home in Barcelona
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Teardrop trailer: classic 50's mobile micro-home renaissance
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Family finds analogic solace in solid backyard treehouse
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Japanese-inspired charred wood tiny home in Ohio small town
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Converted van as full-time home for nomadic Canadian couple
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What can be learned from a 17th century American town
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Yokohama narrow tiny house "breathes" & attracts local nature
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Light walls & moving doors revamp Kyoto small home
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Norwegian wood: LEGO-assembling rural prefab cabin in 1 day
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$150 bike camper: DIY micro mobile home (downloadable plans)
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Indoor/outdoor budget home in Japan: affordable & permeable
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Paris microflat gets precise in space use with thrifty ideas
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Kayaker builds Hobbit Van with butterfly windows for vanlife
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From cramped hayloft to tiny, daylit modern studio in Porto
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Dome village inspired by Buckminster Fuller as UC Davis dorms
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Virgil unbound: Italian Alps ruin becomes dream budget home
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Transforming plywood walls add rooms & service to Geneva home
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Rubik cube flat flips office, storage, dining & bedroom in SF
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Metapod backyard tiny studio delivers best of NY's urban-rural
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Turning Montmartre flat into adaptive space perched over Paris
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Kristie Wolfe builds underground home & sets rural WA hamlet
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Medieval granary-on-stilts becomes tiny summer cabin in Spain
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Big Easy's shotgun: cross-ventilated narrow houses stay cool
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Iconic prairie-style grain silo becomes family's affordable dream home
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Automated container home on a budget obeys voice commands
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Waterworld done right: NY Truck-a-Float as truck/boat camper
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Couldn't find his dream popup micro-camper, built it instead
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Tree Snake tiny homes defy gravity at Portuguese vintage spa
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Paris microflat gets precise in space use with thrifty ideas
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Builder transforms old RV into unique tiny home
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Grid Beam modular system builds anything, furniture to bikes
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Family adventures inspired North Sister, a high-end tiny home
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Side-door container 2nd life as WA's ski town outdoorsy home
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aVOID: if a Swiss Army knife were a tiny home
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WA maker turns skoolie, short-bus & container into family home
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Bauhaus to tiny "haus": micro-home village in Modernist Berlin
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Danish maker turns waste into art, furniture, vehicles & more
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Experiments in whimsical tiny living at former Paris hospital
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Old Denver city bus transformed as young family's comfy home
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Friends turn vacant zoo on rocky hill into hotel of minimalist cabins
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Cube hut becomes tiny house inside small Kyoto office building
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Vancouver dad on raising 5 free-range kids in city apartment
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Wyoming students make custom micro-campers to live & sell
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Dutch greenhouse home harvests energy, food & winter heat
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Snowboarder's 1950s fire truck as a cozy place to call Home
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Couple's own Paris-Dakar using Land Rover transformer-camper
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Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow
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On building your dream (floating) home-studio, the Dutch way
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Couple taps into Mexico City's creativity with frugal design
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Mechanical cottage moves receding facade with use/seasons
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Tiny cabins in VA's woods to slow down & resync inner clock
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Bubble hotel atop a forest canopy near Paris
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Graham Hill's NYC tiny flat #2 attunes L space to the moment
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Vina Lustado's home-office using 2 tiny houses in "L" + deck
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Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces
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Palm Springs revamps trailer park with mid-century tiny homes
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Apple architect picks a small prefab to savor CA countryside
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Apple architect picks a small prefab to savor CA countryside
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Wikkelhouse: pick your modular segments & click them together
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Young vets avoid student debt going vanlife in San Francisco
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Skinny modern home finds place between 2 converted alpine barns
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RV park as NorCal’s first legal tiny house village?
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Intersection of rurex & philosophy: visiting Heidegger's hut
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Boeing retiree finds meaning inventing micro homes & high speed trikes
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Small island getaway seeks old Greek simplicity: “Meden agan"
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Wind turbine cars, whimsical houseboats & bikes of Oskar de Kiefte
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Family fixes home in ghost-town lab & tells others to follow
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Bottom-up urbanism solves urgent housing needs in CA vicinity
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Can vanlife family of 5 find home where they park?
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Transformer furniture hidden on ceiling deploys by command
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Stealth tiny cabin in woods recreated in skinny SF backyard
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A tiny Bauhaus School/home on-wheels to debate future of housing
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Precise lighting amplifies affordable, indoor/outdoor Athens flat
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Going to the woods to live deliberately (not leaving Berlin)
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How to build your own tiny house or ADU
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Central cube sets Paris micro-flat into work/living/rest modes
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Custom van makes case for seasonal West Coast nomadism
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Mount Athos cabin light-pierced via olive-leave openings
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Convertible NY flat expands amid high ceilings & big windows
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$700 mechanical micro-A-frame blends with Montana wilderness
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Woman tows off-grid, wood-clad tiny home to restart life
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Woman tows off-grid, wood-clad tiny home to restart life
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Underground dome house of the family who led geese to fly home
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Joy of rebuilding a settler cabin log-by-log on MN homestead
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Old barn becomes young architect's budget, elegant home-studio
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Old barn becomes young architect's budget, elegant home-studio
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An easy-to-install prefab cabin as alternative to rental flats?
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Tiny diesel tank becomes time-capsule-style personal shelter
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Tiny boat home packs sunroom & dock on remote kayakers' lake
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Tiny boat home packs sunroom & dock on remote kayakers' lake
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Young couple transforms old Loire cave in unique home/rental
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Housebarn ruin in northern Spain becomes family reunion home
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Old West train depot revives as home near Roosevelt's Medora
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Athens Comic Book Flat signals space use with color
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Simple cabin clicks together without nails in 32 hours
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MN tiny home pioneer turns containers into airtight wee homes
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Tiny art gallery turns into home via stealth kitchen/bedroom
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Cave & "Moulin" home restoration looks like a Rembrandt painting
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Found a derelict Portuguese hamlet. Settled in to revive it
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Water-only access lake cabin & vacuum-flush compost toilets
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The world from our window: seclusion as introspection opportunity?
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How we live now: tips from offgridders, tinyhousers, homesteaders
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Nautilus houseboat: German functionalism, golden ratio shape
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How will we live? urban prepping & rural resilience’s momentum
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Using solar, cob, hemp-crete in stunning off-grid compound
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Rain - Gentle Rain Sound - HD Sleep Sounds
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Valldaura Labs culls restored forest for tiny home & biomass
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DIY redwood estate: home + yurt + cottage + micro winery
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Sheep wagons as timeless campervan: the Airstream of pioneers
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Metal transformer flat hides WC inside vault-room in Montreal
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Solo living in a “camper-airplane” as architecture of collapse
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Solo living in a “camper-airplane” as architecture of collapse
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Cantilevered containers become popup housing for NYC creators
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Tokyo maze-home blurs boundary urban/nature, indoors/outdoors
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Homestead Brooklyn: model creates urban forest in her NYC flat
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Homestead Brooklyn: model creates urban forest in her NYC flat
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Eric Maundu's home-aquaponics can grow veggies & fish anywhere
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Ancient stone housebarn becomes couple's tranquil home-office
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New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost
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LA couple builds backyard cottage, then moves-in from main home
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Austin backyard tiny home gently expands beyond its surface
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Boatbuilder makes fireproof/ultralight Lunar Lander, shares plans
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Thrifty couple builds self-reliant, $60K homestead & workshop
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Container home brings high-end functions to tiny prefab market
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Got to the Rockies, settled to build rugged Mountain tiny homes
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Billboard micro-apartment houses artist, reflects on popup art
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Buys '50s home to fix it, falls for its indoor/outdoor mastery
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Outdoor voluntary simplicity & survivalism in Santa Fe hills
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2 corten-steel small boxes make perfect rugged getaway in West Texas
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Spartan Alpine cabin conceals back-to-basics building tips
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Built Bill Gates’ home, then his own dream bunk-studio
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Sewed own popup dome-home for need, been selling them since
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French rural property becomes tiny home village (on wheels)
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Derelict apartment becomes open penthouse with 360º city views
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Medieval vaulted cellar becomes unique rural micro-studio
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5 years as frugal snowbird: author living abroad on $500/month
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Young couple's 40sqm/430sqft music studio & micro-apartment
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To save historic farm, couple creates agrihood of tiny homes
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Live-work under loft bed in 13m2 Paris micro-studio
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Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit
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