BY: CONNOR BRIAN Often a sense of struggle settles in when we find ourselves surrounded by the daily routine of urban life. Crammed into a sea of vacant faces in the early morning rush hour, sometimes I can’t help but…
This modern family lives in a treehouse with trapdoors and zip lines (Photos)
BY: MATTHEW CHIN As a child growing up in the suburbs, a treehouse was only a distant fantasy since most trees would be next to a nearby road or in government-owned parks. I would watch shows like Arthur, red with…
Meet the couple that quit their jobs to become travel bloggers and haven’t stood still since (Photos)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Jenna Spesard, 28, and Guillaume Dutilh, 30, didn’t want to fall in the mortgage debt hole that many find themselves stuck in with a greased up ladder. She was an executive assistant for a movie studio;…
A pro-snowboarder abandoned the American Dream for The Great American Landscape (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Over 15 years ago, Mike Basich hit an incredible high in the world of snowboarding, being one of the first boarders to ever hit professional, internationally renowned status. Accompanied by a weighty paycheck of $170,000 a year,…
IKEA designs pre-made tiny-homes to send to refugee camps around the world
BY: ZOE MELNYK IKEA recently announced plans to send 10,000 out-of-the-box-ready refugee shelters to people in need around the world. Working with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, IKEA’s foundation called Better Shelter will be providing more sustainable homes for struggling…
This man built a tiny home in the Pacific-Northwest wilderness for under $500
Though the tiny-house movement has attracted major attention in recent years, there are still two major problems that the average person faces when they think about building their own micro home: 1. Though mini-homes cost pennies compared to a mortgage,…
This college student saved $8,000 a year by building his own dorm in the woods
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Imagine there is no electricity, and no running water. There are no cell phones, laptops, or televisions—no honking cars or blazing sirens. In the woods you would be one with nature, living simply and focusing on self-fulfillment,…
Bike campers are giving nomads a new way to travel
BY: ZOE MELNYK A number of modern nomads are taking minimalist living one step further past the van life and are instead slowly converting to the new idea of bike campers. Bike campers allow travellers to venture anywhere they physically…
An airplane was salvaged for $2000 and transformed into a stunning waterfront home
BY: ZOE MELNYK What can you do with $30,000 and some open space? Buy a Boeing 727, convert it into a home, and be the coolest neighbor in the world. It was a stroke of luck that the Boeing airplane…
These new apartments with moving walls could re-organize your life.
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS In an age of 500 square foot condos, here’s a radical idea: the creation of a house whose walls literally move in order to create a larger space. The story of PKMN Architecture’s “All I Own House”…
This man built an isolated house in the middle of a raging river (video)
In 1968, Milija Mandic and his friends ventured out into the middle of the river Drina in Serbia to build an isolated dream club-house. Though the cabin has been knocked over six times from flood and storm, Mandic has persistently…
This former engineer quit his job to travel the world in a van
BY: ZOE MELNYK After years of dreaming about traveling the world, Mike Hudson finally made the decision to quit his job as a systems engineer and begin life on the road in a renovated LDV Convoy. Hudson began implementing his…
This adventure-porn will make you want to drop everything and hit the road for good (Video)
A movement has begun to take shape between the Tiny House movement and an increasing number of #vanlife and travel blogs that inspire us to embrace adventure as one of life’s most accurate representations of prosperity. ‘Glamourous’ no longer applies…
These amazing houseboat designs will convince you to float off into the sunset (Photos)
Do you ever dream of sailing off into the sunset in your very own houseboat? With rising sea levels, they are becoming more practical than ever. They come in all shapes and sizes, from floating traditional style homes, to ultramodern…
This man built a gorgeous tiny home in Thailand in just 6 weeks with only $9,000 (Photos)
BY; ROB HOFFMAN Steve Areen is proud owner of one of the cheapest, and most interesting instant mini homes on the planet. Areen was inspired by a friend named Hajjar Gibran, who in 2011, built a series of dome houses…
This NYC designer quit his job and built the world’s most epic treehouse (Photos)
In 2011, Foster Huntington left his job and life as a designer for Ralph Lauren in NYC to move into a VW Synchro camper van, and travel around the States. Huntington has since driven 100,000 miles, camping, surfing and hiking…
This family lives on a floating fortress of greenhouses in the middle of the ocean
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In Clayoquot Sound, BC, tucked away in the coastal inlets of Cypress Bay, and about a half-hour by boat off the coast of Tofino, live Catherine King and Wayne Adams—the owners and operators of Freedom Cove. Freedom Cove…
How to put your bedroom on wheels and travel the continent. (PHOTOS)
Imagine your life became one permanent adventure; one where you were free to travel to remote locations undeterred by a lack of accommodations or the need to make next month’s rent. You don’t need tens of thousands of dollars to…
These tree houses will make you want to give up on society and move to the woods (Photos)
Every child envisions building the most epic tree house of all time, but most creations end up being little more than crooked nails and soggy plywood that make you scared for your life to stand on. These warriors of the…
Micro condos are the urban answer to the tiny house movement
BY: SINEAD MULHERN The micro condo seems to be Toronto’s answer to the tiny home movement that’s taking hold of rural-living spendthrifts. Construction of these mini units is accelerating. A full five percent of new condos coming into the market…