The Charming Wohnwagon
Are you dreaming of having your own mobile home someday? Here’s a caravan that will break stereotypes about living in a mobile home. It’s so well executed that it goes beyond the novelty of simple living! The mobile home featured above is just one of several units built by Austrian company Wohnwagon. Their creations are designed to […]
Off-the-Grid Strawbale Cabin
Nevada City, California – Arkin Tilt Architects Built area: 872 sq. ft. (81 m2) Photography: Eric Millette Off-the-grid in every sense, this home, is a great example of sustainability. Heating, cooling, all power and even the water are generated or pumped on-site. It’s a vacation home for a young, active family. From the architect: Located […]
Joseph Dupuis’s self-sufficient shipping container cabin built for just $20,000
Ottawa, Canada – Joseph Dupuis Floor Area: 355 sq. ft. Photography: Japhet Alvarez It may look like it’s simply a storage unit from the outside, but these three shipping containers enclose an impressive interior that might just suit your taste! Due to his desire to escape the city for a more peaceful and simpler environment, 29-year old engineer and renewable energy researcher Joseph […]
Tiny House with Drawbridge
Ontario, Canada – Greenmoxie Floor Area: 340 sq. ft. Photography: Gary Mulcahey This home may be short on space but definitely not on style and function. It even has an electric draw bridge deck, which serves as its most distinctive feature! This drawbridge, when opened, serves as a deck large enough to fit a dining set […]
Family wraps home in greenhouse to warm it naturally
Stockholm, Sweden – Charles Sacilotto and Marie Granmar If a greenhouse protects plants from the cold weather, why not use it to keep your home warm, too? This concept, unusual as it may seem, is what keeps the Sacilotto-Granmar household a lot warmer during the extremely cold Stockholm months without increasing energy consumption! This house-in-a-greenhouse idea was […]
Ultimate glamping?
Anywhere you choose – Nice Architects Slovakia Available late 2015 Size/Area/Volume: 2.55m x 4.45m x 2.25m / 10m3 / 22m3 Do you remember The Blob? No, not the movie, the home office dmvA Architects designed for the client refused building permission for a home office. Ecospace looks remarkably similar but it’s a wonderful example […]
And the fourth little piggy built his home from pallets!
It’s almost impossible not to come across one pallet idea on the web every day! Sofas, beds, chicken coops, fences, feature walls… we thought we’d seen them all but how about houses made from pallets? With so many families facing a housing affordability crisis, we can see this idea really catching on. Pallets come in different […]
