What A Simply Beautiful Idyllic Place To Be...

Isn't this just the most beautiful idyllic setting.
Far far away from the crazy world.
I was over at Kent Griswold's Tiny House Blog and this beautiful photo by Alex von der Assen was featured as the week's Tiny Home In A Landscape.
The little cabin is at Loch Voil, a small fresh water loch in the Scottish highlands.
Just don't tell everybody...

Colin's Coastal Cabin. An Imaginative And Unique Tiny Home On Wheels...

Colin's Coastal Cabin is a delight.
He's recently shared the story about the building of his tiny home on wheels here on Kent Griswold's Tiny House Blog.
Built of mostly recycled materials with some beautiful rich natural timber features, the tiny self sufficient home on wheels has been designed with living well as top of mind.
It's a simple and imaginative tiny home.
Do have a look...

A Very Gorgeous Tiny Boat Roofed Shed In Wales...

I was visiting Kent Griswold over at Tiny House Blog, another wonderful site dedicated to living simply in small spaces, and I found this simply gorgeous little shed that has as its roof a fourteen foot long by seven foot wide clinker boat that had seen better days.
Built around 1905, the old clinker has been placed on a frame of four telegraph poles and located 750 feet above sea level near the village of Cemmaes Road near the market town of Machynlleth in mid Wales in the UK.
The magical little shed-dwellers delight has beautiful views of mountains across the valley.
A solar panel feeds a 12 volt battery providing power for a refrigerator, a sound system and a few LED lights. There's a gas hob for cooking.
The shed is made from recycled materials, the windows from a 400 year old house and an old caravan. Corregated iron, wattle and daub, which is a mixture of woven wattle, mud, clay and straw and then covered with liberal coatings of thick bitumen paint.
I do like the way the inside of the boat has been left untouched and will you look at the old French enamelled wood stove from the early 1900's.
There's more to read here and lots of wonderful images here.
Take a look, it's simply gorgeous...

He Built A Beautiful Little Rustic Cabin In The Woods...

I was over at Kent Griswold's
Tiny House Blog. Another favourite site.
There was this wonderful but sad story about
a man and his dream.
How he finished school and in the summer of 1976, set off to the mountains of America's North Carolina.
To build a little log cabin.
Armed with a few books, some hand tools but no experience or skills, he set up a tent and got on with his appointed task.
He expected it to take six weeks.
He had the optimism of youth.
Six months later he hadn't finished the chimney or started on the roof.
He lived in this beautiful little cabin made from fieldstones and oak logs for fifteen years. It had no plumbing. He carried water from a local spring and heated it with wood he'd cut.
Sadly, for some reason he had the need to sell his little cabin and move to Ashville.
He misses his life in the woods more with each passing year...