7 Earthships You Wish You Could Live In Are you considering living off the grid in the near future? Then you will find inspiration from the following Earthships. These Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap to build and awesome to live in. Earthships can actually change the world for the better. 1.) Image: Mister Joe Image: earthship.com 2.) Image: Earthship Kirsten 3.) Image: losangeleshomes.eu 4.) Image: steampunkopera.wordpress.com 5.) Image: inspirationgreen.com Image: purnaarchitects.in 7.) Image: conceptrends.com For more information on these awesome buildings and how to obtain your own plans, visit earthship.com. Please Share these awesome designs with your friends and family.
How You Can Simplify More Than Just Your Stuff I’m excited to announce the launch of The Power of Simple Living: 140 Inspiring Quotes to Simplify Your Life (And Get What You Want). I’m eager to teach what I’ve been learning and experimenting with in regards to simplicity, life and gaining our freedom back. This is part of that mission as a book that I’ve been working on that’s designed to help people like you and me who are hungry to simplify their lives in search of more personal, spiritual, and financial freedom. And I’m here to show you that, and more. You Can Simplify More Than Just Your Stuff And my purpose for you with the book is to inspire you towards simplicity in more parts of your life than one. So if you’re looking for a guide on how to get rid of ‘your stuff’ so you can downsize this is not it. More Parts of Your Life You Can Start Simplifying Now Mind.Stuff.People.Work.Money.Health. The Benefits You Can Experience by Simplifying These Areas In other words, I’m here to help you: Aren’t We Making Stuff a Little Too Important?
Turn Soda Cans Into Aluminum Roofing Shingles! Here's one way to take good old coke cans and turn them into non-rusting aluminum roofing shingles. It's a bit time consuming, but have you priced aluminum shingles lately? Other Great Stories From Offgridquest.com: Island House by Peter Rose + Partners Nichée sur l’île de Chappaquiddick près de Edgartown dans le Massachusetts, cette résidence familiale composée de quatre structures a été conçue par Peter Rose + Partners. Principalement en bois, cette maison a la particularité d’avoir d’immenses ouvertures sur l’environnement et presque aucune cloison à l’intérieur. Une architecture à couper le souffle à découvrir.
Pure Salvage: 10 Eclectic Tiny Homes Built with 99% Scrap The premise of this small design-build firm is simple: almost everything you could want or need to build a new house is already in a a disused or abandoned building … so why not harvest 99% of your materials from such sources? Tiny Texas Houses builds custom homes and advises people on finding and reusing materials as well. “A generation of housing materials already harvested, sliced, diced, formed, and proven healthy, toxin free, priced for human energy is available in this country. The creations of Brad Kittel are eclectic, often rustic and peppered with various regional styles, both as a mode of creative expression and a simple byproduct of the materials found and re-purposed in the building process. The entire venture was an outgrowth of Kittel’s architectural salvage business, which morphed into creating recycled architecture but also providing plans to people who want to build their own house.
Classic Hand Tools Limited - Lost Art Press Ref: BK-MAJSFAT When it comes to exploring the shadowy history of how 17th-century furniture was built, few people have been as dogged and persistent as Jennie Alexander and Peter Follansbee. For more than two decades, this unlikely pair – an attorney in Baltimore and a joiner at Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts – have pieced together how this early furniture was constructed using a handful of written sources, the tool marks on surviving examples and endless experimentation in their workshops. The result of their labour is the new Lost Art Press book “Make a Joint Stool from a Tree: An Introduction to 17th-century Joinery.” Joint stools are a fascinating piece of British and early American furniture. • Selecting the right tools: Many of the tools of the 17th century are similar to modern hand tools – you just need fewer of them. • Processing green oak: Split an oak using simple tools, rive the bolts into usable stock and dry it to a workable moisture content.
33 Amazing Ideas That Will Make Your House Awesome - No Army Can Stop An Idea We’ve all got some sort of idea of how our dream home might look. Some of us have just got to have a pool, while others want clever modern design, sustainability, or integration with natural elements. No matter what it is that makes your dream home unique, here are a few examples of homes where people have been able to realize some of their greatest home design fantasies. These ingenious home improvements run from pools and aquariums to cleverly-hidden storage spaces, multi-purpose furniture and… cat transit walkways. Warning – viewing some of these images may make you feel dissatisfied with your current home! 1. Image credits: acrylicaquariums.com 2. Image credits: Hilden and Diaz 3. Image credits: unknown 4. Image credits: psfk.com 5. Image credits: Justin Kemp 6. 7. Image credits: Because We Can 8. Image credits: Hernandez Silva Arquitectos 9. Buy: amazon.com 10. Image credits: Le Beanock 11. Image credits: Deriba Furniture 12. Image credits: fancymaterial.com 13. Image credits: Tobias Fraenzel
Nate and Jen’s House on Wheels: Living Simply and Free in a Tiny Home My friend Nate originally bought a camper that he dismantled to build the tiny house on a trailer you’re about to see. The trailer is 8’3″ by 24’10″ and he used 2x4s instead of 2x8s for floor joists to decrease the home’s weight. He also used a lighter option for siding. Nate kept a blog while building the house which you can check out right here. Living Simply and Free in a Tiny Home Find out why Nate built it and see the rest of the photos below: Why a Tiny Home on a Trailer? I was going to ask Nate what drew him to building a tiny house, but then I found out why on his blog: To save moneyTo be nomadicTo live simplyTo be outside moreTo be adventurous Resonates, doesn’t it? The Ultimate Way to Live the Simple Life? How would a house like this change your life? Inside Nate and Jen’s Tiny House Notice how the light shines through the ceiling in the living area of the house! Wall Shelf Storage in the Kitchen You can order steel Ikea shelves like the ones above from Amazon. Clear Roof in a Tiny House?