Beautiful Vardos (Tiny Houses on Wheels) to Drool Over…

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Tiny houses don’t necessarily have to be grotesque little tin shacks in the woods ya know. There are some beautiful ones out there, hand made with great care and a flair for design. This guy has made some beautiful vardos – the gypsy word for Caravan, essentially – and his Facebook page shows some of them in the throes of creation – fascinating stuff!

His website Zyl Vardos here

And his Facebook page here

One of the beautiful Zyl Vardos - Fortune Cookie. Image by kind permission from zylvardos.com

One of the beautiful Zyl Vardos – Fortune Cookie. Image by kind permission from zylvardos.com

Travel Souvenirs of the Strange Variety – or – My Name is Raveburbleblog and I am a Relicaholic.

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R-Expo and their delicious natural goods. Delhi, India.

R-Expo and their delicious natural goods. Delhi, India.

In 2005 when I was leaving India to return home, I’m pretty sure that technically I was kicked out of the country. It was my debut overseas trip and also the first time I could afford to buy whatever the hell I liked, within reason – we’re not talking a Maserati or a luxury yacht here, and I have no inclination to have my own exotic python zoo either. I’m talking about getting a few clothes tailor-made, treating myself to a nice piece of turquoise and silver jewellery, buying odd, dusty brass items from that hole in the wall shop five alleyways past the cyber cafe with the public urinal outside it, or going to R-Expo and indulging in my ecologically created, natural ingredient incense, soaps, shampoos and perfumes  enough to last for an entire year. Continue reading →

Tiny House and ‘Normal House’ Living – Pros and Cons (May Contain Llamas)

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Your potential new lawn mower.

Your potential new lawn mower.

There’s a lot to be said about living in a ‘real house’. As I’ve mentioned before, the divine presence of an automatic washing machine is number one in my book. Here are some other great things about it: Continue reading →

There’s a movement going on…

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There’s a movement going on out there. It’s called ‘The Tiny House Movement’.

Check out the documentary ‘We the Tiny House People’ here.

Tiny House Living – And How I Went Mad in the First Place.

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My humble lil' abode - the innards.

My humble lil’ abode – the innards.

Life has its way of having a good chuckle at your expense, does it not? Way back in the child rearing years of my life, my partner at the time and I took to the road in a 1948 Leyland bus, which had a couple of lofts on the roof just big enough to swing a mouse in. So off we set with three kids, two dogs and a parrot, and did a few rounds of the North Island of our lovely country, New Zealand. A grand and interesting life it was too, with many a character-forming challenge along the way.

Things I learned while living on the road: Continue reading →

Tiny Ass Apartment

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For those of you who live in cities and want to scale down on your budget, have a look at this.

MSN Real Estate Tiny Homes pages

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There are some great pages on this site relating to tiny homes.