Historic Tiny House Renovated

Posted June 24th, 2009 by Michael Janzen and filed in Historic
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cottage-450x300This is a great short story about a tiny vintage tourist cabin renovation at Tiny House Blog. It’s always exciting for me to run across examples of older tiny houses because living simply is not a new idea.

In fact I’d suggest that living in smaller homes has been the norm throughout human history. The new normal, these big expensive homes, are what is so new and quite possibly one of the reason’s we have trouble finding time for anything beyond working to pay for them. But I digress…

Read about this Vintage Tourist Cabin

The Hundred Dollar Homes of Detroit

100 home hunrded dollar detroitThe State of Michigan is helping people buy and renovate abandoned homes. As you might already know Detroit is one of the hardest hit cities in this economic tsunami. To help breathe life back into the local economy the government is providing many incentives to buyers who want to move in, fix up, and live in these hard hit communities. Read more about these $100 Homes.