Our Livable Treehouse

treehouse

by Jay Duffy I have a little documentary that Kirsten Dirksen of faircompanies.com put together for us and I’d love to share it with you and the rest of the tiny house community. It’s a video about a tree-house for grown ups that I built using 90% recycled materials. Here … Read more

The Tiny Yellow Teardrop on Fair Companies

I am currently on my way to check out some tiny houses in the tropical nation of Belize. However, I thought I would leave you with a video of my teardrop trailer, the Sunflower, put together by the lovely Kirsten Dirksen of Fair Companies. Last fall, I met Kirsten’s parents … Read more

Indoor Cabins

indoor cabin

My initial interest in tiny houses started with my desire to own a simple cabin in the mountains. Kirsten Dirksen from faircompanies.com recently released a new video on an updated concept of the modern day cabin. Indoor cabins! Architect Terri Chiao knew she couldn’t afford the rent on a 750-square-foot … Read more

Tiny House Blog Founder Interview

Kirsten Dirksen and Kent Griswold

I am not big on promoting myself, but several of you have told me to put this interview done by Kirsten Dirksen of faircompanies.com on the Tiny House Blog. I have put the video on the About page as an intro to new readers, but will also use it here … Read more

Kirsten’s Innermost House Video

Last month I had the privilege of visiting Innermost House and getting personally acquainted with Diana and Michael Lorence. Kirsten Dirksen of faircompanies.com has also been invited to experience their home and has just completed a video of her visits. I feel her video brings to life a bit more … Read more

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