Faircompanies Video Updates

I have fallen behind on my friend Kirsten Dirksen of faircompanies.com videos and wanted to share her last couple of videos with you. Recently Kirsten was in France at a wedding and filmed the first story of the garage conversion. The second video comes from the Tiny House Blog joint venture with Kirstin calling for video stories and Deek shared his recently with Kirsten.

Jérémie Buchholtz wanted an affordable apartment in Bordeaux (he’s a photographer who splits his time between Paris and Bordeaux so his budget was limited), but he wasn’t finding anything he liked. Then he stumbled upon a listing for a garage.

In order to make the space feel larger, De Marien created a “house within a house”: one large piece of furniture that includes the bathroom, bedroom, office, closet, a sofa bed and all of the home’s storage. With everything contained in this large furniture box, the rest of the home was given more breathing room. View the complete story here.

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16 Year Old Builds Tiny Home

Austin Hay from Santa Rosa, California is making the news these days. About a month ago he was featured in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. His latest forage into the public eye is a faircompanies.com video by Kirsten Dirksen. Which after just two days has had over 136,000 views. I … Read more

Tumbleweed Box Bungalow Open House

Kirsten Dirksen from faircompanies.com is visiting Northern California from her home in Spain and last weekend visited Jay Shafer’s Open House. I was unable to make it this time but will be meeting with Kirsten during the next couple of days. Kirsten has a real talent for video taping and … Read more

Homemade Spaceship, a Tiny American Dream House

Last year, Kirsten Dirksen from faircompanies.com and I connected on tiny houses and her great videos. I then put out a request for you, my readers, to submit your tiny house videos to Kirsten so she could take them and assemble them into a completed project. Following is one of … Read more