Who Wants to Get Cozy?

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Backyard Cabin

Have you heard about the Tiny House movement? I just read about it in one of my (very) backlogged New Yorkers and I'm intrigued. Apparently, there is an entire movement, albeit small, of people opting to live in extremely diminished spaces.

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company

Members of the Tiny House movement have varied motivation: some are passionate about the environment and wanted to reduce their living footprint, some are reacting against an overly consumerist culture, others want to live an unfettered lifestyle (most tiny houses are mounted on wheels and therefore mobile) and still others just want to save money. Personally, I like the idea of significantly less space to keep clean.

Fishing Cabin

I definitely prefer smaller, more intimate houses but this might be pushing it for even me.

Cavco Cabin

And yet, some of them look so warm and inviting that it makes me think it might be nice to be cuddled so close together with the people that you love. But maybe I’m just reacting to the frigid weather lately. Regardless, here’s to a cozy weekend whatever size house you spend it in!

-Alissa

Ferdinand Cheval

French postman Ferdinand Cheval tripped over this type of rock one day in 1879 and was inspired by the stone's unique shape. What he did next is inspiring.

 Cheval went on to spend the next 33 years building the above building titled the Palais Ideal.Working at night after his shift as a postman he spent the first 20 years building the outer wall and binding the stones by lime, mortar and cement. When he began collecting stones he put them in his pocket soon upgrading to a basket and finally using a wheelbarrow (no idea how he delivered mail and wheeled a wheelbarrow). Cheval was so proud of his creation that the armature architect wanted to be buried in his creation. He built the following mausoleum and died approximately one year after he built it.

Crazy right?! You should see the My Little Pony house I built out of kleenex boxes when I was a kid- that's about it for my architecture skills.

-Grace