You made your floors out of WHAT??? Money Saving Ideas for your Tiny House/Cabin

"POOL LINER FLOORING FOR YOUR HOME, CABIN, or KIDS FORT!?"

Being installed: In this photo the flooring and baseboard trim (to hide and tack down the edges has yet to be installed). 

Here's an idea we toyed with at our last workshop in MA- and one I've never seen done before. My neighbor (fellow salvage enthusiast) thought of this- "What if we take my old metal above-ground pool walls, and use them as flooring?". Well, we did, and it works pretty darn well, its 100% recyclable, costs us NOTHING, and looks pretty wild! I do recommend putting down a layer of flooring padding (the thin foam rolls) before laying out these sheets- it'll minimize any noise.

SO, if you're into thinking outside the box/going the bizarre (and affordable) route with your home, here's something to consider, as above-ground pools are thrown out CONSTANTLY! 

This shot's from our not-yet-finished cabin "The Relaxshack", which also features a 100% free and salvaged back wall- what I've dubbed "The Wild Wall"…..

Here's a video showing and explaining this colorful, and cost-effective technique….

These are ideas, alongside 1045 more, that we'll be demonstrating, discussing, and IMPLEMENTING in a hands-on/get-dirty manner at our Memphis, TN Relaxshacks.com Workshop- April 11-13th
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-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

SIXTEEN tiny houses, A-frames, Huts, Art Studios….An eye candy photo gallery

Every once in awhile, I look through my photo archives and realize "Man, I have a lot of photos I've never used", so I then put together a fun, photo gallery, such as this one, where many of these shots I've taken of cabins, tiny houses, A-frames, and huts, get to see the light of day. So Enjoy, and may you get some inspiration, or a few ideas from these!
    Also, check out our fb page on Tiny Houses, and DIY projects- www.facebook.com/tinyhousehub
And details on our upcoming HANDS-ON building and design workshop in Memphis, TN- April 11-13th, 20141 I can't wait!!!

 A lil' A-frame Cottage-rental office I spotted near Acadia National Park in Maine….

 Doug Immel's Tumbleweed Fencl- which came out to our last Relaxshacks.com Building Workshop

 Joe Everson's Work- a 192 Square Foot Tiny Home in TN

 Above: My "Rock Shack" in my backyard, built and designed with recycled materials

 Another cabin on wheels called "The Cub" which I built and designed too- plans eventually coming!

 We built and designed this little getaway cabin in the woods for Vermont for only $300!

 Another reading/writer's retreat I designed in MA (not finished in this photo)

 An A-frame design of mine (it transforms!)- more details and photos coming soon!

 A tiny house in CT

 Another view of my Rock Shack (the one photo here I didn't take- its from Andrew Prince)

 Jim Matus' backwoods cabin in MA

 A micro modern cabin in MA that we recently toured!

My trash-built Gypsy Junker cabin that I built and designed (it sold last year)

A great A-frame I spotted on a road trip near VT

 Incomplete: A cabin I'm working on called "The Periscope"

I built and designed this tree house in late 2013 for a client near Boston, MA

A yurt, one you'll see, and possibly get to stay in, at our Memphis Hands-On Building and Design Workshop 2014

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

My Book….

A Cartoonish, Funky Art Shed/Shack/Guest House

FIRST, there's a new tiny house related site that just came out, and I'll have much more on it tomorrow 

Its called www.TINYHOUSEGEAR.com

Sheesh, just when my productivity was coming back, out comes another addictive tiny housing site!

This cabin is serving as temporary storage for a few vintage heaters I'm working on restoring as well (in the right side of the photo)- A perfection kerosene heater (only to be used in a well ventilated room! And a old Sears model knock-off)

"THE A.D.D. Micro-Cabin of Bizarro Art, and Over-The-Top Color"

 From the land of misfit art....

Here's where I've been spending some time lately, working on ideas for my next book on tiny houses, forts, shacks, tree houses, cabins, n' playhouses.....it'll be quite a bit different from "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks"- with some team-ups with a few kick-butt architects in the field!

This little eight by eight prefabricated cabin/shed studio/office still has quite a ways to go, but I'm slowly getting there- all the while accumulating more weird and colorful art to display in it.....

Again, with the addition of a deck, a grill spot, some insulation and a little add-on bathroom, I've contemplated using this as a tiny, tiny house/cabin rental on airbnb.com. One for a micro artists or writers retreat perhaps- it'd even come pre-loaded with some art supplies, a library of ultra out-there books, and more...

Eventually, I think I'm going to give this cabin a tongue and groove floor- it'll cost me a little bit, but when coated with a few layers of polyurethane, it'll look GREAT!

Yeah, I've got a think for weird, voodoo-lookin' owl figures as of recent....no idea why....the other orange one you might see in some photos, was a recent gift from my brother, who is my "owl enabler", apparently.

The Shack, from out back....

Suffice to say, my kids love playing in this little place....

ALOT of PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT THE LANTERN HANGER- So, here's the video explaining....

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen (all photos by...)