When we met Logan Smith and Tammy Strobel in A Young Couple Find Freedom in Simple Living, they'd already gotten out of debt and simplified their lives. (Tammy's book You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) recounts how they did it.) Fulfilling a long-held dream, they're now … [Read more...]
Simple Living Enables Dreams – A Tiny House Tour
August 5, 2013 By 1 Comment
July 29, 2013: Chico, California. After visiting with our friend Mary Nelson, we biked to the Tiny House where Logan Smith and Tammy Strobel are now living. Their dedication to simple living has enabled them to achieve several dreams since we taped Young Couple Find Freedom … [Read more...]
An Earthen House Built by Hand (215)
July 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
"I think it's very very important to know you can provide things for yourself… build your own house… grow your own food… make your own medicine." Walking his talk, Greg Crawford shows the magical wattle-and-cob house he built with hand tools using local materials: alder … [Read more...]
Portable House, Simple Life (197)
July 18, 2011 By 7 Comments
Embarrassed by her middle class affluence after a visit to Guatemala, Dee Williams grabbed her hammer, built a tiny house on wheels, downsized to less than 400 possessions, and parked her house in a friend's yard. Her living arrangement then blossomed into a … [Read more...]
Dee Williams’ “Little House” – A Moveable Room of Her Own
September 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
August 24, 2010. One moveable house, 7' x 12' on wheels, spacious wood-paneled interior and exterior, with sleeping loft, skylights, front porch, closet and bench seat. One burner for cooking One water crock, filled manually One sink basin draining to bucket One … [Read more...]
Little House on a Small Planet (119)
July 22, 2008 By 7 Comments
Builder and author Shay Salomon finds that the happiest home builders are often the ones with the smallest houses. They're less costly to build and maintain, more likely to be finished, use fewer resources and help people simplify their lives. One version of "smaller" is to … [Read more...]
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