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?
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.
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?
Building An Earthship In 10 Minutes Valhalla’s Earthship Inspired Greenhouse This year I had the privilege to be part of Valhalla’s Earthship Inspired Greenhouse. It truly lived up to its name, and it was indeed a greenhouse made up of Earthship elements, but more importantly, IT WAS INSPIRING. So many problems seem to plaguing our world, and yet the solutions remain exceedingly simple. What I learned transcends anything that could have been taught in a classroom, or through a book. These are clips from the 10 videos made during the greenhouse build. This is an Earthship in 10 Minutes I stood in awe as the community came together on this project. Our Collective Problems American discharge 220,000,000 car tires every year.. We’ve became real close with local garages, who needed someone to unload their used tires on. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours We’re going around collecting cans, not for the 10 cent recycling reward, but for aluminum bricks, that line our Earthship wall.
The Advocate Tiny House Project The Advocate Tiny House will be created through crowdsourced collaboration. In other words you can help design it, and the Advocate Tiny House team will build it. When the house is complete they’ll use it to share the world of tiny house living with others. The finished house will be available for touring, traveling, classroom learning, workshops, rental, etc. At this moment in time the only design decision that has been made is the size and source of the trailer.