We Love Unique Homes
In the Pacific Northwest, a couple built a pretty unique off grid cabin. The fascinating thing about it is that they managed to build it with only $300. The materials they used were mostly reclaimed from a demolition project they had and from what they can get online. Alyssa Craft and Jesse Stafford are building…
A little creativity and some knowledge can go a long way into changing old structures like an alpine garage into a beautiful cottage. The old man who lives in the house raises herbs and tends a garden. His garage was unused as it was just for a vehicle. What the garage had though was a…
For nearly thirty years Richard Proenneke, an amateur naturalist, lived alone in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin he built himself. The cabin is situated near the shore of twin lakes. He survived, hunted, fished and grew and foraged his own food, only occasionally he had supplies flown in by helicopter. His life…
Sometimes you think you’ve seen every variant of a beautiful tiny house when out of the blue comes what is probably the most adorable A-Frame ever built. Alla Ponomareva and her husband Garett who live in Missoula, Montana built this very beautiful A-frame cabin on their property as a guest house. Builder Darek “Deek” Diedrecksen…
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROGER WADE, STYLING BY DEBRA GRAHL What is more charming than a hand-made cabin? Although this cabin is small, it has a lot of charm and attracts your attention. Log cabins have always drawn people’s attention because of their interesting and unique lifestyle. The thing why people adore them is because of the…
A home that’s sheltered by earth has high protection against the elements and requires little to no maintenance. It can outlast a normal home by decades. The biggest reason why you’d want to build and earth-sheltered home is to take advantage of the earth’s thermal mass, it will regulate it’s own temperature ( stay warm…
Living Big In A Tiny House Living off-the-grind and rent-free is a dream of many people in today’s world, not many go for it but few have turned that dream into reality. A tiny off-the-grid home, designed and built by boat builder Jeff Hobbs has grown Tiny House building to the next level. It has…
Classic Cabin -Hot Tub & Fireplace in WV hills | Photo by DANIEL There is a special charm to Log Cabins that has captivated and attracted people around the world for centuries. A big part why people love log homes so much is because they last. A log cabin can withstand the test of time…
Living in Detroit on $10,000 a year it might seem impossible to buy a new house, thankfully now it’s possible thanks to a new neighborhood on the city’s northwest side. Two blocks of newly built tiny houses were designed to help people living in poverty to move into new houses. The program they use is…
Over 30 years of living alone, content and off-grid. Jill Redwood, an inspirational woman who lives on her own, off-grid with civilization an hour away.. This inspirational woman is Jill Redwood. She built her house in East Gippsland, Australia. 30 years she has lived alone completely off-grid with no city supply of electricity, water mobile…