Some people loathe Stuff so much that they embrace lives of voluntary simplicity and live in tiny houses.
Peter King, 51, lives off the grid in a geodesic dome and has several tiny houses on his property.
They were unattractive and gave the tiny houses an unfinished, under-construction look.
Diedricksen may come off as a wacky guy, but architects have taken notice of one of the designs in his book, Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, and a small cabin he built in Vermont will be featured in a forthcoming book about tiny houses.
The tiny row houses, the gray cinder-block walls, seemed to stretch for miles.
In Thomas Doyle's Magritte-like miniature landscapes under glass domes, tiny clapboard houses teeter on the brink of sinkholes or perch precariously on cliffs.
Many live alone or in tiny spaces in small houses or apartments.
Much of this book is to do with brawls round meeting houses, tiny incidents that nonetheless loomed large in the Shaker history of their persecutions.
And in the lanes between whitewashed houses in the tiny capital, Male, grim things have been taking place.
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The tiny hamlet of Elantxobe, with its colourful houses clasping to an almost sheer cliff face, is undeniably one of the most attractive spots along the entire coast.
It seems like a personal swimming pool, surrounded by lush greenery and the tiny village of Kalafat, which has a handful of charming Ottoman houses.
Tree branches bending down to the water hide the turn of the river on both sides, and what you see is a lake with wooded hills, a few little houses on the far shore, a pier with a tiny man fishing.
From the 360-degree observation deck on the 72nd floor of the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe at 310m, London opens up like a pop-up book and the landmarks of St Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge look toy-town tiny.
Building new passive houses and renovating existing buildings to passive-house standards are tiny steps in Germany's daunting challenge to cut energy consumption as it seeks to replace nuclear power with renewable energy.
To find it, turn into a tiny alley off the main Rynok Square and squirrel away from sight along old houses until you spot an oak door with a blue bottle over it.
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Like many Ladakhi houses, this one reserves the lowest floor for livestock, and the tiny gray donkey, whose braying--like rusty hinges grinding--has kept me awake these past two nights, steps out to sun himself.
Or you can sit in the lobby of the small building that houses the Sky Kitchen along with a store that sells maps, books, and tiny artifacts and tools for small commercial and amateur aviation in the Valley.
We lived in the second-floor flat of a small two-and-a-half-family house on a tree-lined street of frame wooden houses with redbrick stoops, each stoop topped with a gable roof and fronted by a tiny yard boxed in with a low-cut hedge.
All Archimede houses have an underfloor cavity that is always pressurized with warm air, and a series of tiny holes punched next to the outside wall encourages a slow diffusion of warmer air that prevents condensation and fungus development.
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