Yet another good reason I live in Santa Monica, as one day we were down the street in Venice on Abbot Kinney Blvd. and saw this model house sitting there on a tiny little lot: Turns out it is the model of the Show House by Jennifer Siegal’s Office of Mobile Design. It was open [...]
Today’s guest post is from Alex Johnson, who is the publishing editor of The Shed magazine for people who work in sheds and shedlike atmospheres and also produces the daily-updated Shedworking site. His book, Shedworking, will be published by The Friday Project in July 2008.’ Alex’s Shed Shedworking as a term is probably new to [...]
Affordable? Check. Cool? Check. Approved by the wife? Not so much, at least not yet. But Rocio Romero is on to something here with the LV series of prefab homes: 1150 sq. ft, living room, dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and closets all for $33,923. Now that is affordable prefab housing! A lot [...]
Oh sometimes I really know just how lucky I am that I live in Santa Monica. Ever since we saw that this house was being built just a short ways from here, we have driven by it a bunch of times to marvel at it. This house is beautiful if nothing else at all…This first [...]
The 6040 House is a design by Gergory La Vardera of LaMiDesign based in Merchantville, NJ. I have been a fan of Mr. La Vardera’s work for a while now ever since I came across his design “The Plat House” about a year ago. But these new designs, being built by Northern Steel International, are [...]
I have to be honest…Michelle Kaufmann’s first prefab design, the Glidehouse, was initially my favorite of all prefab houses on the market. I had never seen something that felt so much like a modern healthy home before and we fell in love with it immediately. We went up to San Francisco to see the Glidehouse [...]
I often contemplate buying land somewhere and building my own house. It would be real nice to raise kids somewhere that I have room to breathe and run around. I don’t know where or when, but that is my goal in life. I would like several acres to play with and grow my own food. [...]
