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Joe’s Truck House

Joe’s Truck House
I don’t feel I missed anything beyond this form of life. Yes, I gave up a lot of stuff-books, clothing and other unnecessary things we all registers. But gained freedom. Real freedom. A work truck converted into a rolling home. Related:  Portable

IKEA Unveils Solar-Powered Flat Pack Shelters for Easily Deployable Emergency Housing IKEA Refugee Shelter - Gallery Page 7 We’ve all seen IKEA’s innate ability to transform any area into a cozy, homey space (just look at how comfortable their store displays are), and taking on disaster and refugee relief is a no brainer for the company. Until the IKEA collaboration, the UNCHR was only able to provide tents or converted mass-shelters for the influx of refugees into countries around the world. Prior to the IKEA collaboration, the UNCHR was only able to provide tents or converted mass-shelters for the influx of refugees into countries around the world. Now, with IKEA’s help, these displaced citizens will not only have privacy and comfort, but the dignity of having their own place. IKEA’s shelters come flat packed, making for the easy transport of lightweight plastic shelters at once. Assembly of the 188 square foot hut is easy and can be built in just four hours. The new IKEA/UNHCR shelters will make their first be deployed in Ethiopia next month. + IKEA Foundation Via Fast Company

300+ Mind Expanding Documentaries Source: www.diygenius.com | Original Post Date: January 12, 2014 – I watch a lot of documentaries. I think they are incredible tools for learning and increasing our awareness of important issues. The power of an interesting documentary is that it can open our minds to new possibilities and deepen our understanding of the world. On this list of mind expanding documentaries you will find different viewpoints, controversial opinions and even contradictory ideas. Watching documentaries is one of my favorite methods of self-education. I hope you find these documentaries as enlightening as I did! [1] Life In The Biosphere Explore the wonder and interconnectedness of the biosphere through the magic of technology. 1. [2] Creativity and Design: Learn about all the amazing things that people create with their imaginations. 1. [3] The Education Industrial Complex: The modern school where young minds are moulded into standardized citizens by the state. 1. [4] The Digital Revolution: 1. 1. [6] Politics: 1.

22 Unique Flooring Ideas For Any Room Rate article: · 5 ratings· Flooring doesn't need to be boring. Here are 22 unique twists on your traditional tile, timber and carpet flooring options. What's your favourite? 1. Fun for a kids room (or any room, for that matter), this example is cut from various types of plywood. Image Source 2. It's probably no secret that I'm a huge fan of plywood. Image Source 3. Look closer. Image Source 4. Love the warmth of timber flooring, but can't resist the bold patterns that tiles afford? Image Source 5. Sometimes the best flooring material is actually ceiling material. Image Source 6. This is a beautiful combination of ceramic tile and clay brick. Image Source 7. You would probably be arrested if you tried to export this many pennies from the US. Image Source 8. If you're handy on a sewing machine, you could whip yourself up one of these beautiful patchwork rugs. Image Source 9. When thinking about flooring it pays to think outside the box. Image Source 10. Image Source 11. Image Source 12. Image Source

Hivehaus Inspired by the hexagonal honeycomb structures built by honey bees to store honey and pollen within a beehive – HIVEHAUS® has been designed by Barry Jackson to be an ultra compact but extremely comfortable living space suitable for a wide variety of applications. Identically proportioned hexagonal cells can be joined together at any time by any or all of their six sides to create a modular cluster of connected cells or ‘Hive’. Each cell has an internal floor area of 9.3 m2 and is designed to be used as a specific work/live space i.e. office cell, lounge cell, Kitchen cell, sleep cell or bathroom cell, uniform internal partition walls (with or without pocket doors) can be added or removed as required allowing airy open plan spaces to become cosy individual rooms and vice versa.The flexibility of the HIVEHAUS® modular system permits easy bespoke expansion of the ‘Hive’ allowing it to grow with the individual users requirements. Photos by Barry Jackson. More info. here.

40 websites that will make you cleverer right now The indexed web contains an incredible 14 billion pages. But only a tiny fraction help you improve your brain power. Here are 40 of the best. whizzpast.com – Learn about our awe inspiring past all in one wonderful place. khanacademy.org – Watch thousands of micro-lectures on topics ranging from history and medicine to chemistry and computer science. freerice.com – Help end world hunger by correctly answering multiple-choice quizzes on a wide variety of subjects. artofmanliness.com – Blog/site dedicated to all things manly, great for learning life skills and good insights. unplugthetv.com – Randomly selects an educational video for you to watch. coursera.org – An educational site that works with universities to get their courses on the Internet, free for you to use. mentalfloss.com – Interesting articles guaranteed to make you smile and get you thinking. feelgoodwardrobe.com – Find out how the world of fashion really works and what you can do to combat it. lifehacker.com – Learn to hack life!

It Looks Like A River, But When You Zoom Out...I Want One! Bring miniature rivers and lakes into your living room, right on your coffee table. Share29092People Sharing You can see more of Klassen’s works here, and his furniture is all available for purchase through his online store. H/t: Colossal Hivehaus » Modular Living Space 17 Websites That Will Make You Smarter If All These Rooms Were in One House, It Would be the Coolest House in the World. Especially #8 Combine these ideas into one uber house and you're pretty much guaranteed to have the coolest house in the world. Start saving. Because having the coolest house in the world doesn't come cheap… But it'll be totally worth it. 1. For cooling off after a long hot day, there's nothing more luxurious than hoping under an outdoor shower with a huge, water guzzling head and imagining you're under your own personal waterfall. 2. Just like in the cartoons! 3. Bookworm? 4. Every child's (and big kid's) dream room! 5. This double sided fireplace has double the benefits. 6. Why should kids have all the fun? 7. There's a babbling brook under the floorboards! 8. This bedroom has a hidden waterside leading to a spectacular indoor pool! 9. Why waste precious courtyard space with anything other than your own mini golf course? 11. Because, obviously. 10. This home cinema lets you float around, cocktail in hand while watching your favourite movies on the big screen. 11. 12. 13. 14.

ÁPH80 A transportable 290 square feet home manufactured in Spain. Photos by Juan Baraja. Designed by Ábaton. Nomadic Resorts Portable Looper Home Prefabricated housing units have become all the rage all the design scene, but nothing has impressed us quite like the Nomadic Resorts Portable Looper Home. This 30 foot long structure has been built from a sustainably sourced wooden frame draped in a lightweight tensile fabric. Although the caterpillar inspired design allows for maximum ventilation, the solar canopy atop the unit helps to power an air conditioning unit if the outside temperatures are just too unbearable. In addition to powering the AC unit, the solar canopy also powers LED lights and the solar heater for the hot water, while the harvesting tank recycles waste water. Each pod includes a a changing room, sleeping area, bathroom, lounge with entertainment system, and even a small office with Wi-Fi to get some work done on the go.

Glamping in the Tree Tops with a RooMoon: Hanging Tents I’m excited to share these hanging tents with you because if you like tree houses and camping you’ll probably love this. Yes, camping in the trees would be awesome, but how? Check this out… it’s a tree tent called the RooMoon made by the Hanging Tent Company. It takes tent camping to the next level (literally). Handcrafted and designed by graduate student, Rufus Martin in Dorset, England. Since he presented this at Byrson School as a final project it has been his full-time business since. The outside material is a durable canvas that can stand any weather. The frame is made of steel rods that are strong and weather proof. The designer says, “the tent is capable of lifting over 1 ton with ease. Images © Hanging Tent Company Why You Might Want a RooMoon Hanging Tent If you are interested in getting a RooMoon of your own head over to their website, Hanging Tent Company. The starting price for one of these tree tents is roughly $5,888. Is this RooMoon something you could take camping? Resources:

2 brothers build green-roofed portable office in Lake Tahoe When brothers Tyler and Shaun Bratt began building a structure in their front yard they had plans for a sauna, but mid-build they decided they’d prefer something more practical. Hundreds of hours later, they finished a hand-crafted portable office for their construction company (Bratt Brothers). With hooks embedded in the living roof, the shelter can be moved by crane and flatbed. Though since it costs $1,000 per move, they try to leave it in one place. Right now, it’s parked on a bit of vacant space in Tahoe City, CA and after two years of permitting work, the Bratts hope to legally use it as an office soon. In the meantime, they’ve spent the odd night in the space (Shaun assures it would make a decent tiny home though at the moment it’s furnished with just a draftsman’s table and wine refrigerator). The living roof is automatically irrigated by sprinklers that turn on twice per day.

Green Architecture & Building | Projects in Green Architecture & Building Our BatchGeo world MAP shows the locations of green building and renewable energy projects featured on Solaripedia. Nomadic Mongolians, Turkomen, Kazakhs, Uzbeks and Kyrgyz wander and dwell in an area of the Asian steppe that stretches from the Caspian Sea to Mongolia. Living in tent-like dwellings called yurts, these people adapted to conditions of scarcity, using materials at-hand such as animal fur and willow saplings. These yurt structures have a single-room circular plan, created with a lattice frame of willow wands that expand to form the wall but which retract to a compact shape. Light-weight poles arc towards a ring at the crown to form a roof structure. A yurt is a portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The original word for "nomad" came from a word for felt, making the nomads "felt people". We don't know exactly where the yurt originated. What is a Yurt? A Ger is really more than a tent.

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