Home Making
Living in 400 Square Feet or Less
Guest: Derek Diedricksen, artist, singer, and author, "Micro Living: 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-Time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less"
The little house movement is gaining popularity for a lot of good reasons. Derek Diedricksen explains all that you can gain by going small and giving up excess stuff.
Celebrating the Tradition of Timber-Framed Houses
Guest: Jack A. Sobon: architect, builder, Founding Director of "Timber Framer's Guild of North America," and founder of "Traditional Timber Frame Research and Advisory Group"
Constructing houses from wood, by hand, is a craft with thousands of years of history, and there is still a tradition of building this way today. It can bring people together: we find out what "barnraising" really means and how it brought communities together.