Roommates are hard to find. Let me rephrase that. Good roommates are hard to find. It is very easy to find people who are renting out rooms in apartments. It is tempting to just take...

In 1900, a pair of freshly minted prep school graduates Frank Roosevelt and Lathrop Brown moved into a suite of rooms in the famous Adams House at Harvard. The future President of the...

I just returned home from a 3000 mile road trip. Part of the preparation for this trip included clearing many tools out of the back of my truck to allow us to use the space for camping...

I live in a New York City apartment with no elevator and wacky New York City wiring, so my home security mostly consists of living in a place that very inconvenient to break into....

When I was designing our 200 sq foot cabin, one of the design elements was a sleeping loft. This concept is pretty common in the fundamental plans of many “tiny house” designs....

Animals inspire us, entertain us and keep us company. But the animal kingdom also offers us plenty of tips and trick on how to live smarter and more efficiently. Freed of human burdens,...

More and more of us are working from home whether we’re self-employed or bring work home from the office. If you’re looking to set up a home office that is more efficient...

Jay Shafer has been building and inhabiting tiny houses since 1997. His first tiny house was a mere 89 square feet, but once he realized that he could still live pretty comfortably...