Category Archives: Home Improvement

We The Tiny House People

A documentary on tiny house living – something I would like to try someday. We The Tiny House People (Documentary): Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters – YouTube.

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21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity

Not gonna lie – some of these made my eyes sweaty.  The power of random acts of kindness.  Inspires me to undertake some of my own. 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity.

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Homemade Homes

These hand-built homes always inspire me. Shame I’m mechanically inept. (I’ve had a friend bar me from ever assembling Ikea furniture without his assistance.) He also said this about tools he used: “Main tools used: chainsaw, hammer and 1 inch chisel, little else really. Oh and by the way I am not a builder or […]

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Handy Household Tips

I opened this list of household tips expecting to have seen most of them before, or for them to be underwhelming. Pleasant surprise, then, to find some genuinely inventive and useful (if limited) ideas. The cookie cups, shower cap, and bed linen ideas, especially, were light-bulb moments. http://www.thedailybuzz.com.au/2011/11/25-clever-ideas_household-tips_storage-ideas/#.Tt1VPkGcswh.facebook

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http://www.csshippingcontainers.co.uk/wordpress/ The exciting world of Shipping Containers and what they can be used for! Forgive them the exclamation point – I’m not sure shipping containers deserve one, though I full admit that a plain old period doesn’t quite cover them. Decades of trade deficits with China have resulted in thousands of these ISBUs abandoned at […]

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