By Dee Williams I had a chance to meet with a group of high school students today at St. Helens High School in St. Helens, Oregon. For the past few years, their teacher, Joe Mauck, has been teaching students how to frame, sheath, plumb and wire tiny houses – skills that they can easily transfer…Read more
The 2012 Build Small | Live Large Housing Summit will gather leaders in the development, real estate, building and design sectors from across the bioregion for an intensive day of inspiration, project case studies, and peer-to-peer learning. This one-day housing summit will challenge architects, developers, builders, remodelers, urban designers, policy makers and real estate professionals to…Read more
Oregon Public Broadcasting’s radio series “Think Out Loud” began a new show about how and where people choose to live across the Northwest, and the unique places that people call home. They began with tiny houses, and specifically with the home and lives of PAD’s pals Tammy and Logan, who had Dee design their tiny…Read more
This video from CNN Money visits Dee Williams’ 84-square foot home.
PBS’s Need to Know takes a look at the tiny house movement and speaks to Dee about her experience in a tiny home. From PBS: “Given the state of the current economy, a growing number of Americans with ordinary lives are choosing to scale down — way down. They call themselves the “tiny house” movement….Read more
Oregon Home Magazine takes a closer look at the Don Vardo Tiny House Design, PAD’s first set of tiny house plans. From Oregon Home: “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…Read more
This short film by Mark Hoffman, presented by Nau, speaks to Dee about her move into a tiny house: “The average American house size is 2,500 square feet, but due to rising energy costs, job uncertainty and the mortgage crisis, a growing number of people are seriously downsizing—in one extreme case, to a house smaller…Read more