Author Archives: Mike (tfb)

Tiny house tour

By Mike (tfb) | Published: Sat Feb 28, 2009
This little video tour gave me a bit of a feel for extreme tiny living. The house is around 100 sq. ft. (not sure if that includes the attic sleeping-storage space). The tour guide is Jay Shafer, founder of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. He’s been living in, designing, building, and selling plans for tiny [...]
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Bed time

By Mike (tfb) | Published: Fri Feb 27, 2009
What to do with the bed when you’re up and about? If you have room for a loft or sleeping niche set up high and out of the way, that’s cool. Otherwise, the bed just lies there all day, taking up space in an unhelpful way. I’m going the folding futon sofa bed route for [...]
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Enter the rice cooker

By Mike (tfb) | Published: Fri Feb 20, 2009
Took the plunge into a sea of automatic rice cookers today with this Black & Decker 6-cup rice cooker, almost the smallest you can get (there’s a 3-cup, too), only $20 (on sale for 15!). It comes with a steamer basket, so you can steam veggies as well. And you can use it for things [...]
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Pallet project

By Mike (tfb) | Published: Mon Nov 24, 2008
Tiny Free House says: “I’m embarking on a little experiment. I’m going to build a tiny house that’s cross between Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond and a Tumbleweed-like Tiny House on wheels.” Pallet construction can be nearly FREE!
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Super-fridge

By Mike (tfb) | Published: Fri Nov 14, 2008
Energy-efficient appliances: where to start? It’s a bit overwhelming at first. Began kind of randomly with fridge-freezer gear—preserving food by keeping it cold seems both essential and energy-expensive. The first promising company I run into is Vestfrost, an eco-friendly refrigeration specialist from Denmark. According to dealer literature, “these sleek and popular energy efficient refrigerators are [...]
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MoCo tiny homes

By Mike (tfb) | Published: Mon Nov 10, 2008
Tons and tons of impressively slick, green, expensive, clever takes on tiny living spaces… I’m spending hours going through the Architecture archive at MoCo Loco: The Modern Contemporary Design Blog, where high design and compact prefab homes are a central feature. In the pic, the K3 Modernist 9′x13′ prefab module from kitHAUS, installed at Big [...]
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Living in a small space

By Mike (tfb) | Published: Sat Nov 08, 2008
Quite suddenly, over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking seriously about living in a rather small space. Tiny farming leads to tiny living? Maybe… In any case, no worries. I’ve occupied relatively small spaces in big cities: typical apartment living. At the tightest, I’ve lived with a partner in a fairly tiny studio [...]
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