Home - Simple Solar Homesteading Using Pallets to Build A Canning Pantry Cupboard « "The Farm" Old World Garden Farms Our canning cabinet filled from the garden Our crate and pallet board pieces after disassembling a pallet and a shipping crate Over the last 6 months or so – it seems that we always have a comment or two to the blog on our canning cabinet that we built out of old shipping crates and pallets. In fact, it seems to have taken on a life of its own – to the point that after so many asked – we finally put detailed plans on our Etsy store. So we thought for today’s post we would go through the how 2′s of building with pallets and shipping crates – with a little extra information on the canning pantry. Our Canning Cabinet made from old pallets and shipping crates. We have actually made two of them – the first we built from pallets – the second from some old shipping crates and pallets. For the canning cupboard, we started by tearing apart about 4 pallets to use for the sides and shelving boards. Canning pantry shelves are made from pallet boards nailed into 2 x4 frames. Jim and Mary Like this:
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Benefits Of Living In A Tiny House In Canada May 7, 2013 | Posted in Tiny Houses | By Joanne Tiny Houses are becoming more and more popular around the world and in Canada. Many people are realizing that a big house isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. What Has Brought Us Here Tiny houses are gaining popularity all across Canada. Even though the size of the average family in Canada has decreased over the past 50-60 years, the average size of a Canadian house has increased almost three times. We are now seeing a shift in the other direction. When most people think of a small house, they think of a cabin in the woods or a cottage by the lake. More recently, with the financial problems that Canadians are facing, the uncertain job security, and the increasing living expenses – they are looking towards these smaller sized homes as their main living space. Your Footprint on the Environment As the environment gets more attention, we begin to look at our ecological footprint. How Small Can you go in Canada? DIY Construction of your Tiny Home
Building a House on Limited Means: Low-cost House-Building For People on a Budget Building a House on Limited MeansThe Elimination of all that is unnecessary to achieve a DreamBy Thomas J. Elpel We are very goal-oriented in Western culture, and we often count our successes by how much we accomplish. As a simple analogy, you might say that a western artist does sculpture with clay, assembling an entire work piece by piece, while an eastern artist does sculpture in stone, eliminating everything that is not part of the final goal. Our approach to achieving our dreams was more the eastern approach than the western one. I pretty much grew up in the pages of the old Mother Earth News magazine. In Zen it has been said that, "Reverence is the elimination of all that is unnecessary." Financing the Dream In high-school the teachers were always telling us that we had to study hard so that we could find good-paying careers as adults. Renee and I started dating during our senior year of high-school and were already drawing house plans by time we graduated in June of 1986.
The San Francisco Globe 1. Old Ladder -> New Bookcase 2. Old Folding Chairs -> New Closet 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. What ideas do you have? In love with these ideas? Archive Building a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin in New Mexico By Kevin Stevens A few years ago we purchased some vacant land in northern New Mexico. We chose that area based on a number of factors. Site Location and Solar Power Our parcel of land is a bit under 42 acres and nearly all the land around us is uninhabited grazing land. I designed all of our cabin’s lighting needs to be met with 12 volt DC based LED’s. Challenges with Building the Cabin Building in a remote location has some added challenges that many take for granted. Cooking, Water and Heat In a conventional home, the turning of a knob may bring life to a cook stove using natural gas or electricity at 220 volts. All of our water is brought in using 5 gallon Nalgene jugs. Our cabin is passive solar by design and when the winter sun is shining, the wood stove is not usually required. A Work in Progress The initial building process had us “dried in” after a months work, but I still have a ways to go on a lot of the smaller details. Kevin Stevens writes for Networx.com.
Build a Home for $10,000 in 10 Days! For half a century, William Castle has been building bridges, cabins, and shanties of all shapes and sizes. His favorite projects are right in his own yard. Woodland areas such as that of his native Belmont, N.Y., often have an abundance of “junk” timber that has little commercial value because of its small diameter, twisted grain, or other imperfections. The modified timber-framing method Castle has developed lets him build a home quickly and easily from this low-cost, local resource. If You Build It … Thirty years ago “Pollywogg Hollër,” as Bill and Barb Castle call their 30 acres surrounded by forest, began as a project to bring the family together. At Barb’s insistence, Bill began taking time off, and over the course of three summers, they and their three teenage children built a 20-foot-by-30-foot log cabin in their back woods. Other than mortar, hardware and roofing, all the materials in that cabin came from the land. A Simpler Timber-framing Technique More Tips for the Technique
Archive Reclaimed Space Guest Post by Tracen Gardner I came up with the idea for Reclaimed Space when I needed a living space on my ranch outside Shiner, Texas. There was no electricity or running water on the site, which is located 15 minutes from the nearest hardware store. I did not want to use all that energy driving back and forth and was concerned with not only with time constraints but also the confusion involved in meeting sub contractors in a remote area. I was afraid of not completing the project in time and that it would take too long to “dry-in” if I worked only on weekends. I decided to build my Reclaimed Space to fit a “shipping envelope.” Since I painted my way through college, I knew where most damage would occur from the sun and rain. Next came style, for years I had collected 100 yrs old material with great appreciation for it’s structural strength, historic value, rich colors and textures. We were received brilliantly.