I just got home from a week long South Western vacation. The entire week was topped off by a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home, Taliesin West.
I started studying Frank Lloyd Wright in college. It was something that Matt and I had in common before we started dating a billion years ago. While we were still both at school we would often travel to Frank Lloyd Wright buildings local to Kalamazoo, Michigan (there are quite a few, surprisingly). We’ve been all over the country to see his buildings: Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania. Now I can add Arizona to my list.
Could you imagine an entire tiny house just for meditating? This architect designed and built just that so that he could have a place to quietly get away.
He even included a fountain to mask unwanted sounds so that he could use the space as intended. As I was looking at it though I was wondering: you’d probably think about living in here wouldn’t you?
Well… So did I. The two big windows face east and west so that there’s always sunlight coming through the structure.
Leave it to us to figure out where to put what in this tiny space since it wasn’t designed to live in.
I think you could create two separate sleeping platforms in the lofts by the two large windows. This could create two semi-private areas for sleeping. But if it’s just you the other can be left alone or used as storage.
Then downstairs you can create your living space along with a mini kitchen and bathroom.
Northwestern Tiny House Project’s mission is to build this sustainable home by making their own improvements onto Tumbleweed Tiny Houses’ efficient use of space with new ideas and innovations in the areas of materials, electricity, and plumbing.
They call themselves Team CASITA. This particular home is just 128 square feet and yes: they’re using a trailer as a foundation.
The design includes:
Electrical and plumbing systems
Solar panels with battery bank
Water tank placement
Rainwater collection system
The home is planned to be finished this school year and the students have put together an excellent eBook (report) that you can download which details everything, including materials, layout, plumbing, composting, electricity, resources, and more.
Here’s a really nice shipping container house tour.
It’s a shipping container design that comes ready made from the manufacturer (from Europe) with windows, a bedroom, kitchen, air conditioning, and more.
One drawback that some will like and others won’t is that it’s brand new. It has never been used for shipping so it is not a recycled container.
This makes it cost more but you avoid having to do a conversion yourself and everything comes ready made and seems to be of high quality.
It’s a nice design and can be used here for inspiration and ideas on your own recycled container project.
This particular product in the video is designed to be used in Australia. Enjoy the tour…
