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Sunday, January 12, 2014

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
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

Saturday, January 11, 2014

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….

Monday, January 7, 2013

New Low-Dough DIY Video- with a Hobbit Huts/Tiny House Tour

Here's a NEW VIDEO I did over at Make Magazine- which is certainly on the goofy side, but fun (well, I hope you'll find it so)- This tour shows you the Wooden Wonders Hobbit Huts/Holes in Unity, Maine- AND I wrapped in a simple little weird art-meets-functional shelving DIY project into it too....

Please Subscribe To My DIY/Tiny House Building Youtube Channel HERE- Over 65 How-To Videos!

This one's not for everyone, but the intentions of the "Bicycle Inner Tube Book Shelves" Project....

-Keep it VERY affordable
-Keep it simple, and time-wise, quick to make
-Its easily removable and stowable
-It works to house and "tether" your books down while underway/under transport (in the case of a Tumbleweed-like travel trailer or tiny house)
-It utilizes materials that might otherwise be thrown out- recycled materials....

So, check it out- AND, I'll soon have another video debuting over on Kent Griswold's TinyHouseBlog.com site, which tours The Whittled Down Caravan (shown below)- a traveling gypsy wagon/canestoga wagon that was built by Tristan Chambers and Libby Reinish for a mere $1500.00! You'll love this lil' place.

It was a guest structure at our last hands-on, Relaxshacks.com "Tiny House Building Workshop"....

Photos by Deek

OUR NEXT HANDS-ON WORKSHOP... where Kent Griswold will actually be a guest speaker.... APRIL 26th-28th- WILMINGTON, NC- THREE DAYS of building, demos, guest speakers, and more! Email me at kidcedar at gmail dot com if you might be interested. Class is limited to 25 people- no more. We'll all build a tiny guest house together!

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

Sunday, January 6, 2013

THIRTEEN Tiny Dream Log Cabins- AND a floating log home!

A TINY LOG CABIN PHOTO GALLERY

Rustic old log cabin from weheartit.com

Over the last few months I've had many different readers send in photos of log cabins that they've seen, found, or own. More recently, Steven Harrell (who I'm co-hosting the April, hands-on, three day, tiny house building workshop with (Wilmington, NC)) posted a super cool TINY LOG CABIN HOUSEBOAT on his tinyhouselistings.com site (A steal at $12,000.00- If I only had a pond!), and that served as a reminder for me to post up some of these photos. That log cabin, is far below in the gallery too.

Check out info on that upcoming TINY HOUSE WORKSHOP- with MANY guest speakers, builders, and bloggers....HERE....

While they are only exterior shots, there's still a lot to be learned from them in style and form, so check 'em out, enjoy, and may they spark some inspiration in you!

PS- I also have a "Log Cabin In The Vermont Woods" video coming soon as well.....AND another on The Whittled Down Caravan- a DIY-built Gypsy Wagon/tiny dwelling on wheels that made a guest appearance at our last building workshop.