Small House Style - small, simple, modular, prefab, modern, solar house plans and design

I was on the west coast recently so I decided to see what the Small House scene was like. I came across architect David Sarti's house in Seattle on Future House Now. It was also featured in a Seattle Time article by Dean Stahl a few years ago. The photos are by Benjamin Benschneider. More Northwest small houses to come...

On February 16, 2007 Bethany Lyttle wrote a great primer on Small Houses called Think Small. There are links to the featured designers and manufacturers at the bottom of the post. Definitely worth the read.

We recently came across the Sustainable Furniture Gurus blog. From the site: "This is a blog for vendors and retailers to join and learn how to take sustainable products from the forest floor to the showroom floor. It's going to take many "gurus" sharing their market experience to push the sustainable agenda along. We consider ourselves a facilitator of those discussions."

This fast-paced, almost* fact-filled, and most importantly, SIMPLE look at the materials economy is a must see for anyone interested in or concerned with the connections between environmental and social issues and creating a more sustainable and just world. Some gentle doom and gloom at the beginning but the end is where it is at - we can fix this thing and many people are working hard to ...