Category Archives: Planning

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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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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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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