This Hobbit Hole in Virginia looks stellar if you want a peaceful getaway. Inside the round green door is a one-bedroom cabin with a queen bed, kitchenette, and a bathroom complete with a rainfall shower. The owners added various handmade special touches, including the counters and furniture! The family also did the welding, and the [...]
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Dave’s Milk Barn Cabin In High Falls, New York
I love when something old gets a new life, and that’s especially true of this milk barn, complete with a vaulted ceiling, that’s gotten a new life as an Airbnb. What was once an insulated cooler for milk on the farm in the 1940s got a new life when Master Carpenter David Raponi renovated it [...]
The Digital Nomad Guy and His Epic Bus Home
Luke’s bus might have the most gorgeous paintjob I’ve seen! The sunset, the mountains, the large tree with mature roots. Stunning. For the past 2.5 years, “The Digital Nomad Guy” (@thedigitalnomadguy/Instagram) has been traveling the country in his converted school bus. While the bus was partially built out when he bought it, he finished up [...]
Dad Builds Son Nearly-Free Pallet Cabin
Curtis’ wife had an awesome idea: Take pallets and build a cabin playfort for their son. He made the idea come to life and the result is an awesome micro cottage made for almost no expense (his grandparents had the roofing material and siding). Right now with the price of lumber skyrocketing, pallets are about [...]
Family of 5’s Second Bus Conversion Home
This couple with school-aged children is living in their second bus conversion after selling the first one and building out a Thomas Saf-T-Liner to better meet their needs. In fact, they even make money on the side helping others renovate their buses! The bus features an L-shaped lounge area that doubles as the dining room, [...]
Chevy Express Van Lifers Aren’t Waiting for Retirement to Travel
Eric and Ashley began their journey to minimalism slowly, reducing what they had and realizing how little they needed. Eventually that brought them to making the jump to full-time vanlife. Ashley works as a travel nurse, so they go where she gets contracts, and stay for 8 to 13 weeks at a time in different [...]
Raising Kindness Adventures: Family’s 2020-Response #BusLife
For seven years this family had a successful gymnastics business they ran out of a bus — but when 2020 hit, they went out of business almost instantaneously. Savings kept them afloat through October 2020, when they realized they needed to do something if they wanted a home. So despite the difficulties and stresses associated [...]

