A Japanese Styled Tiny House On Wheels...

The Japanese know well how to combine traditional style with simple modern pure minimalist design and have influenced many of the world's leading architects.
Here with this little house on wheels is a fusion of 'western' exterior styling with some of the Japanese philosophies one would see in a traditional Tea House such as Wabi-Sabi and the use of natural materials. We see the use of the wonderful Tatami mats too in this delightful one hundred and thirty four sq foot house.
There's more about living with less here...

I Like The Challenge Of Living With Less...

I like the challenge of living with less says Carol.
I'm richer for it...

The Unicat TerraCross Off Road Housetruck. If You Have A Spare Half A Million...

If you want to go almost anywhere in a housetruck and you have a spare $500,000 you might consider this Unicat TerraCross Off Roader that might, just take you there.
Or you just might save yourself a hell of a lot of money and find something with less of the more and still have some money over for living
when you get there.
But there's some very nice design features on this Unicat, some of which you may have seen before and if you want to see more,
have a look here.
I've seen one of these beasts get stuck on a loose gravel beach, the owner was lulled into a sense of false security and believed his vehicle could go anywhere.
It couldn't and a local contractor saved the day...

The Kiravan. When Too Much Is Never Enough...

Sixty something year old inventor and entrepreneur Bran Ferren has a young daughter Kira he thinks the world of and wants to
show it to her.
Young Kira thinks the amazing vehicle her imaginative father has spent four years creating and which has cost millions of dollars, could take her exploring on the moon.
She might be right and another planet could be just the place for the monstrosity.
For her father, too much is never enough and this, this ugly looking vehicle, sorry Bran, built on a Unimog chassis, has an excess of everything and will consume gallons of gas every time the key is turned.
There's more about it here.
Hopefully this isn't the shape of homes on wheels in the future. It's about as far removed from our natural environment as you could get...

Swiss Banker Andreas Pletscher Quits Counting Money To Pedal Around New Zealand...

There's more to life than money laughs the Swiss ex-banker Andreas Pletscher as he packs up his tent and minimum belongings to climb on his Cannondale to continue his ride to the Far North and New Zealand's Cape Reinga.
I caught up with him at the Department of Conservation's Uretiti campground recently.
Here was a man who knew the value of money but wasn't prepared to give his life for it.
Less is more he delighted in telling me.
The less I have to work to earn money to buy things I don't need, the more time I have to live a life I can imagine...

Twenty Seven Year Old New Zealander Lily Duval Built A Simple Bookcase Then Decided To Build Herself A Tiny Home On Wheels...

Girls can do anything she decided.
And besides, building a house couldn't be that much harder than building a bookcase could it.
Lily is now two months into the construction of her very own tiny home on wheels on some communal land in New Zealand's city of Christchurch.
Being only 5.5 metres long, 2.5 metres wide and 4.2 metres high, it fits within the road transport restrictions, needs no building permit and is being made from new and used materials.
When he died, her father left her some money and Lily's sure he'd be delighted with how she's investing his wonderful gift to her.
This very inspirational and motivated young woman is looking forward to moving into her tiny home on wheels in just a few months and while she's busy building she's thinking of all the things she won't need in her new minimalist life style...

Ethan And His Girlfriend Are In Love. With Their Tiny 100 Square Foot Home...

They built it themselves.
Their first home. Their love nest.  
It was and still is, a labour of love.
They live on a farm site with several other tiny houses, in central Texas.
Their simple tiny house has been mostly built with pre-loved materials.
There's more about their love affair with tiny house living here.
Isn't love wonderful...

The Natural And Simple Beauty Of Wabi-Sabi...

Wabi-Sabi is the marriage of
the Japanese Wabi meaning humble and Sabi which suggests beauty.
Wabi-Sabi invites us to set aside the pursuit of manufactured perfection and appreciate the simple, unaffected, uncluttered beauty of things as they are.
To create a true harmonious Wabi-Sabi environment we will strip away excesses and be happy with how something is in it's unadorned state at that moment.
Through the Wabi-Sabi philosophy we appreciate the modest, the handmade, the recycled, the cracks, the mistakes, the frayed edges, rust, the natural aging caused by the ravages of time and weather.
The marks that loving use has left behind.
The aging lines on our faces, that when left alone, add to and enhance our personalities, that without fads like botox and plastic surgery, tell our life stories. That add to our character and say unashamedly who and what we are.
To know about Wabi-Sabi is to learn more about less and there's more about less here.
Following Wabi-Sabi, we find that perfection is the result of imperfection...