Ecospace Workpod
Very nice little backyard home office built by Ecospace available in the UK. It features a nice modern design, ample insulation, double glazed glass windows, and fairly quick setup.
Shed Building at Fine Homebuilding
Today I watched this great video series on shed building at the Fine Homebuilding website. The only downside to the whole experience is that they require you to provide a bunch of personal information to join their 14-day free trial. I’m not sure if I’ll keep the membership after 14 days but I must say the videos were great and worth the hassle, in my humble opinion. They also provide a free download of the 10-page shed plans and the original Google SketchUp file.
Winner of 2009 Shed Design Competition
The Open Office, designed by Kenny, won the 2009 shed design competition at Secrets of Shed Building. One of the key features of this garden office is a set of sliding wood panels mounted to a rail system on the exterior of the building. They serve to block sunlight as well as provide privacy when needed. Congratulations Kenny!
sipsFORM Sustainable Buildings
There are some easy to build, sustainable, and small structures coming out of the UK. They are built from structural insulated panels and you can see several of their designs on the sipsFORM website.
Ed’s Shed
A fellow named Ed built this tiny house for $50 to use as a place to sleep while attending a 4-day music festival. He hauled it there in the back of his truck.
While Ed’s shed is a bit on the funky side I can see how something like this with just a little more time and effort could be a much safer place for someone to sleep and a big step up from a tent.
Arctic Shed
2-B-2 Architecture has a shelter solution for those working in the extreme conditions of the Arctic. This until will support three people and is moved from site to site.
Urban Rancher – 4 Walls and Roof Framing
The Urban Rancher is making excellent progress on his tiny house and it’s still early enough in the process to see how everything is going to go together. Over the Columbus Day weekend he put up his first two framed walls. He then moved onto the other two walls and now has roof rafters in place.
More Simple Living Resources
Tiny house and simple living websites:
- Tiny House Blog
- Tiny House Design
- Tiny House TV
- Shedworking
- Shedblog
- Natural Homes
- Tiny House Journal
- Small House Society
- Small Living Journal
- Coming Unmoored
- Rowdy Kittens
- This Tiny House
- The Tiny Life (Map) (Forum)
- Constructing a simpler life
- Gypsy Rose Tiny House
- Green Hamlet
- Small House Style
- Building With Awareness
- Shelter Publications
Tiny House Builders, Plans, And Kits
Tiny Free House Update
I spent another two days up at the family farm working on my Tiny Free House. As you can see I screwed the pallet roof boards to the trusses and it’s looking a lot more like a house. My next steps will be to put shingles on the roof, if I can find something suitable, or board up the front wall with milled pallet boards.
JB’s Tiny House is Complete
I got an email from JB the other day letting me know that his tiny house project is complete. He built his tiny home from many reclaimed building materials. He’s also posted many construction photos on his blog for those of you that want to see how a tiny house gets put together. JB’s Tiny House
