MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Joyce Wadler, New York Times "Home" section, February 23/24, 2011
....For ingenuity, thrift and charm, Mr. Diedricksen’s tiny structures are hard to beat. Made of scavenged materials, they cost on average less than $200 to build. They often have transparent roofing, which allows a fine view of the treetops, particularly in the smallest ones, where the most comfortable position is supine. They have loads of imaginative and decorative details: a porthole-like window salvaged from a front-loading washing machine, a flip-down metal counter taken from the same deceased washer. Mr. Diedricksen hates to throw anything away....
Comments
Cute in an artsy way, but there is a serious small house movement, probably best typified by Sarah Susanka's Not So Big House. In a related vein, I've just been reading about the Zero Waste Home, which was profiled on NBC.
by Donal on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 8:03am
You left off one of my favorites: The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company.
Of course, the pièce de résistance this crazy Hong Kong apartment:
by Verified Atheist on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 8:40am
What strikes me most reading the article is the reporter's genuine childlike wonder at Mr. Diedricksen's tiny shacks. Makes me think her playhouse, if she had one, was store bought. Some of my own fondest childhood memories are of the things we made ourselves from whatever was laying around.
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 11:34am