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...)

"The Darrington Cabin" Mock Ups- A Tiny Guest House/Office....

Here's another stab at the cabin design we might be tinkering with (well, ACTUALLY BUILDING!) at our April 26th-28th Tiny House Building Workshop in Wilmington, NC. THREE DAYS of building, designing, networking, guest speakers, demos, and MORE! CLICK HERE if you might want to sign up....while we still have space. Its limited to 25 people total. The list of guest speakers is GREAT too- with MORE to come!
Steven Harrell of Tinyhouselistings.com, Kent Griswold of Tinyhouseblog.com, Alex Pino of Tinyhousetalk.com, Laura LaVoie of 120squarefeet.com, AND MORE- they'll all be there as speakers!

I've never really messed around with Google Sketch-up before, just because I haven't had the chance, so with a little block of time today I decided to mess around a bit, with some off-shoot ideas (and there will be many other to come) for a micro-cabin I'll eventually be building, that I've named "The Darrington" (a combination of "Deek" and "Harrington" (a nod to Kevin Harrington of www.COZYHOMEPLANS.com, who has been so helpful with my videos, and blog.

The cabin is 8' by 12', and 10' tall at its highest point, and what you see here is a mere rough draft.

Not shown is the work desk, toilet, ladder (or steps) to the loft, gutters (by the entrance), and support legs for the flip-up wall/canopy (IF we decide to incorporate it into the build at all).

Again, these sketch-ups are pretty darn rough, as, well, I've used the program for about a total of 2 hours and that's it. I DO see how people can get addicted though, and heck, its a free program! No complaints here.

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

The Mod 105 Pre-fab 20 min assembly shed/cabin!

 INFO ON OUR NEXT Relaxshacks.com TINY HOUSE BUILDING (HANDS-ON) WORKSHOP- HERE! APRIL 26-28th- WILMINGTON, NC- co-hosted by Steven Harrell of Tinyhouselistings.com
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 Love this one- tiny, modern, n' simple. I might personally change out the doors with some other custom built ones for a cabin, or shed office use, but still, this thing is pretty "darn" clever. Hmmm....come to think of it, it'd make a really cool, and easy to install tree house office! Yes, I've been obsessed with that genre and built a few of 'em recently. I just like the slick, clean lines of their design.
      www.Shedworking.co.uk, a great site run by Alex Johnson also posted on this just recently too. Apparently, this unit can be assembled in as little as twenty minutes! Check out the cool time lapse video from the Mod 105 company below. You can find more on them at, yup, www.mod105.co.uk

Again, I'm a big, big fan of small pre-fabricated dwellings, and if you missed Dustin's old video on a tour of the 1970's designed Bolt-Together House, a design by Jeff Milstein, check that one out below too!

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen