Small homes: Part 1

I've loved Airstream trailers for a while and
always thought it would be amazing to travel cross-country.
But the idea of living in a trailer
was really sparked by this beauty.

I saw this "Writer's Retreat" as it's called
on a run around

Shelburne Farms last fall.

I swooned.

I daydreamed about living in it for days.

I called Shelburne Farms and asked them where they found such a dreamy trailer.

They told me Yestermorrow, a design/build school, had made it for a class project.

I called Yestermorrow and asked them if they could pretty please make me one too.
They said I would have to design it.
And they couldn't guarantee the class would finish it.
So I started looking into lots of different mobile, sustainable small housing options.
And, hey, it turns out there are a LOT of small housing options.
So I want to share them all with you guys,
but that will take more than one post.

Oh, and this was the view on the other side of those trees.
Not your average trailer park.

The South

I miss the South when I'm gone from it for too long.

Best Billboards on my drive from Atlanta to Florida:

• "HELL IS REAL. Sponsored by JT Construction Co."
• "Would you give $200,000 to Liberals?? Roy Barnes did!!"
• "Homosexuality is an abomination. Sponsored by Bluegrass Church of God."
• "Where's the Birth Certificate??"

I know these thoughts exist in the South, but you need to put them on BILLBOARDS, people? For realzies?

I also passed not one but 2, HUGE Confederate flags flying along the side of the road.

It's good to be back in the Southland for a while.
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"The South's got a lot wrong with it. But it's permanent press and it doesn't wash out."
-Pat Conroy, Beach Music

Home Design Crush

These are images of the loft of the brothers, roommates, and designers behind hOmE from NYMagazine.

This is one of the brother's bedroom...because he "liked the romance of it". Swoon.

Shovel as faucet.
Practical whimsy.
Love.

Ok, really, I just have a straight up crush.
Bearded men who build and design things?
Yes please.

I might study the kidney better if it were at this desk...