You know what they say, “One man’s trash….” For John, what his neighbor saw as an old dump deserving of being burned to the ground, he saw as a restoration project! John spent 15 years building his own home, so he had the skills necessary to head over and take the old cabin down log [...]
Simple Living
They Built Their Kids Their Own Earthbag Tiny Homes/Big Bedrooms
Well this is one inspirational family! After their mother got sick, she ended up turning to natural methods and clean eating to help her body heal. This took the family on a journey from city life to homesteading in the country. Part of their homesteading adventure included building alternative, inexpensive dwellings so they could live [...]
Farm Life in An Industrial Off-Grid Shipping Container Home
Jennifer purchased 42 acres on the Fleurieu Peninsula in Australia back in 2016. At the time it was a complete blank slate, and she’s added paddocks, a rainwater catchment system, a solar array, a vegetable garden, trees and her amazing industrial shipping container home! She even went so far as to get her home and [...]
Roman & Ioana Travel Europe in Their 1990 VW Van
These days Roman and Ioana use their 1990 VW Van for weekend trips around their home country of Switzerland, but they previously used the van — named Leni — for a full year of travel around Europe. One of the coolest features of this van is the back bathroom. It’s accessible by the garage doors [...]
Family of 4 Drops Everything to Travel with Sister Diagnosed with Leukemia
When Darcy’s sister was diagnosed with Leukemia, she decided to forego chemo and travel the country by bus instead. Darcy didn’t want to miss out on that time with her sister so she and her husband quit their jobs, bought and renovated an RV and have been traveling full-time with their children McKenzie and Maxwell [...]
Roaming Wilsons Give Up 40-Hour Workweeks for Skoolie Life
Kelly and Thomas met in college, got married a few years later, went on to get Master’s degrees, and then started the 40-hour-workweek grind. They found themselves wondering how they were supposed to do this for the next 40+ years and were looking for an alternative. That’s when they stumbled on the skoolie community. While [...]
Dane Has Moved Her Oregon Cottage Company THOW 4 Times!
Dane designed her quaint tiny house with the help of Oregon Cottage Company which then built her forever home. She’s been living tiny for four years already, and has moved the tiny house a total of four times! She tells her son the house is her gift to him — when she dies he’ll just [...]
