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...

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...

Here's A Simple, Smart And Efficient Composting Toilet You Can Easily Make Yourself...

Excrement isn't a subject that most of us talk about around the dining table.
I know politicians talk shit anywhere anytime but this voiding business is something that can't be, well, avoided. Most of us deal with it daily.
Walt Barrett has come up with his own version of a simple composting toilet that is easy for the DIY person to make.
It's eco friendly and inexpensive too.
Check it out here at Tiny House Blog.
Another opportunity to think outside the square...

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...

Zinta Aistars Gorgeous Little Rustic Cottage On The Hill...

Zinta Aistars loves tiny homes and as she explains here and on Tiny House Blog, she moved into a hundred and something year old farmhouse in southwest Michigan complete with ten beautiful acres and a cute little cottage on the hill.
Zinta's a writer and finds the rustic little cottage a delight to her senses and her need for a meditative retreat.
And that's what this quirky and delightful little cottage on the hill is.
But I wish it had a woodstove...

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...

Lorna's Gorgeous Little 1930's Shepherd's Wagon...

Christina Nelleman has just written a delightful piece on Tiny House Blog about Lorna Benedict and how, from 1945, she lived in this gorgeous little horse-pulled Shepherd's Wagon while working on a large ranch in Wyoming.
Christina took the photos too.
During her stint as a shepherd, Lorna minded the sheep, chopped her own firewood, shot and skinned the local wildlife and fished the rivers for her food.
When asked what she liked about the lifestyle, she said 'Nothing! But when I look back on that time, life surrounded by nature was amazing.'
The Shepherd's Wagon now sits in Lorna's backyard in Washoe Valley, Nevada.
It contains a full sized bed, the original wood stove, a toiletry cabinet and as you can see, other items of necessity.
It was back to basics then,
and today, do you really need anything more...