Showing posts with label recycled materials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recycled materials. Show all posts

Saturday, April 11, 2015

This Little Pixie Cabin Might Just Be The Cutest Thing You Ever See On Two Wheels...

This little Pixie Cabin might just
be the cutest thing you ever see on two wheels.
It's featured on Tiny House Swoon .
Built in Surrey in the UK, mainly from leftover bits of timber, discarded pallets, broken boxes, logs, trees and old tools, it is in a word, simply gorgeous. Ok that's two words...











Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Bobby Heffelfinger Created This Beautiful Mobile Art Studio...

Lloyd Kahn featured this simple and beautiful mobile art studio on The Shelter Blog recently.
Built by Bobby Heffelfinger in California's West Marin County on a Ford F.350 truck using mostly recycled materials, it's used by a landscape painter as a go almost anywhere studio.
It could be a wonderful little home on wheels...


Tuesday, October 7, 2014

This Strange Shed Is Made With Recycled Automobile Tyres...

Small backyard sheds come in a large variety
of styles and shapes and make use of many different materials, but here's something rather quirky and well, different.
Tyres have been used in the construction of Earthships for a long time, check out Michael Reynolds, but Dutch designers Denis Oudendijk and Jan Korbes created this unusual 26ft x 8ft shed using recycled doors and windows and plexiglass sheeting laid over a wooden frame that's cladded with cut-up 'tyre shingles'.
It's called Le Maison Comme or The Rubber House and it looks like there's lots of mileage
still left in those tyres...






Monday, November 11, 2013

Project Straatiokaal. How To Turn A Dumpster Bin Full Of Old Rubbish Into A Tiny Home...

Artists Rikkert Paauw and Jet van Zwieten of FOUNDation Projects in Holland's Utrecht started by having some empty dumpster bins delivered to the town square, the local residents were invited to fill them with 'rubbish' and then the artists proceeded to create tiny homes and temporary shelters using the recycled materials.
Called Project Straatiokaal, it's been used to promote responsible waste management and recycling.
There's more about it here.
Man's ingenuity or necessity being the mother of invention.
Don't you just love the sinkbench door...







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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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...








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Sunday, January 13, 2013

How To Make Your Own Simple Cheap Efficient Rocket Stove...

I love cooking on an open flame and I love rocket stoves. That doesn't make me a pyrothingamee, it just means I like getting back to basics. In fact if I don't get back to basics at least once a day then it hasn't been a good day.
I've been getting some material together to do a post on these wonderful cheap, simple to make and highly efficient camping stoves for a while so when I was over at Simon's Allotment and saw the one he made I had to share it with you.
It's basically two recycled smaller cans cut and fitted together to fit inside one bigger can.
All you need really is a pencil to make some guidelines, tin snips or heavy duty scissors, and some sand or even better, Vermiculite.
This little stove uses little twigs as fuel and is marvellous for camping or as an emergency cooker...








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