What’s fire-engine red, has wheels and is utterly fantasy inducing? No, not a sleek Euro sports car but the Don Vardo, a 7-by-10-foot mobile structure with French doors, a tiny cedar deck, radiant-heat cork floors and hemlock walls.
Like many people living in Craftsman homes, bicycle commuters Marti Frank and Lev Tsypin discovered what they gained in architectural charm they lost in convenient bike storage. “We have no driveway or garage,” says Tsypin of their Southeast Portland home. “We just had a makeshift, awkward bike area in the back.”
A 1920s farmhouse in Hood River Valley is recycled into a new home that blends naturally into its surroundings.
Floating homes can be fancy or funky, but residents all share a passion for being on the water.
These are pre-fab houses. Emphasis on “fab.” With a kit from Jan Kronke of Oregon TimberWerks (you can pop up a basic cabin shell in the woods for about $6,000 and a few days labor. Less than $2,000 buys the goods for a fancy little playhouse for the kids complete with covered porch and … Read more
These are pre-fab houses. Emphasis on “Fab!”
With a kit from Jan Kronke of Oregon TimberWerks you can pop up a basic cabin shell in the woods for about $6,000 and a few days labor. Less than $2,000 buys the goods for a fancy, little playhouse for the kids complete with covered porch and Dutch door.
Tie a bunch of helium balloons to a house until it lifts up and floats away. The idea was whimsical in the Pixar animated movie Up. But is it possible in real life?
A National Geographic team decided to find out. They hooked hundreds of colorful weather balloons to a brick house weighing a ton. They even included a grumpy old man. (Actually, he appears to be a perfectly nice youngish man.) The result? Up, up and away.
All the home’s a stage. Set it for drama.
A musician’s home gains new upstairs space without changing the bungalow’s footprint.
Corey Martin’s urban duplex pulls nature inside with glass walls and sliding doors that provide light, transparency and a place for his son to dream.
