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| Modern, Mortgage-Free Tiny House Built for Just $33K Posted: 26 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT
This house boasts two sitting areas, a bedroom, a kitchen, a dining table, a wood stove, a bathroom and ample storage like any conventional home – but it barely measures eight feet across, and cost just $33,000 to build, including appliances. A couple looking to escape the burden of a mortgage designed and built it themselves to live off-grid on their 5 acres of land in Oregon. Andrew and Gabriella Morrison felt like their lives revolved around paying the monthly mortgage on their conventionally-sized home. With backgrounds in construction, they were confident that they could come up with a solution that would give them more financial freedom. The result is ‘hOMe,’ a narrow house on a trailer base packed with clever space-saving details. The home includes a shower, a composting toilet, a sleeping loft screened off by IKEA dressers, a kitchen with granite-topped counters and a box staircase capable of storing a washer/dryer combo in addition to clothes, shoes and other small items. It took the couple four months and $22,000 to build the home, while the high-end appliances, cabinetry, furniture and fixtures cost another $11,000. The house is powered with solar panels, and gets its heat from a wood stove, drastically reducing utility bills. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
| Dual Purpose Seat: Dining Chair Transforms Into Step Stool Posted: 25 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT We’ve all used dining room chairs as ersatz stepladders to change light bulbs or reach that serving platter on the very top shelf. Italian designers studioventotto ran with that concept to come up with a slightly easier-to-use version of the chair stepladder. The Suppergiù chair was inspired by observing everyday life. The designers knew that dining chairs often served to lift people up to higher heights, and they designed a chair that would require less effort to use in that way.
The Suppergiù looks like a normal dining chair, with lovely light-colored wood making up the seat, backrest and supports. The front half of the seat lifts up and off, then finds a new home resting on the horizontal leg supports below. In chair mode, two cutouts at the front corners keep the front half of the seat in place. In ladder mode, two small pegs hold the wooden piece where it belongs and prevent it from wobbling. Because the designers wanted to make the chair as simple and easy to produce as possible, the vertical back supports are made from laser-cut thin metal rather than curved wood. The chair is a lovely testament to the idea that great design can be functional, attractive, and affordable – then goes one step further to be delightfully multi-functional. Keep Going - Check Out These Great Related Dornob Articles: |
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