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This Old House meets Wayne's World in this zany guide to designing and building tiny homes Derek Diedricksen has always had a love for small, modest houses ever since his father gave him the book Tiny Tiny Houses by Lester Walker for his tenth birthday. Combining his artistic abilities, wild imagination, and his passion for small houses, he self-published Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts, and Whatever the Heck Else we could Squeeze in Here in 2009. This book is a collection of Diedricksen's creative/imaginative sketches for building small houses, shacks, cottages, and forts. The sketches are accompanied with hand-written commentary, both instructive and comical. Derek's main purpose is to get your creative juices flowing and encourage you to get off the couch and use your hands. Believing that specific building plans squash creativity, he avoids too many detailed instructions, giving you the chance to put your own creative spin on your very own small abode (even if it is just in your imagination).

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Praise for the author's tiny structures For ingenuity, thrift, and charm, Mr. Diedricksen's tiny structures are hard to beat. --New York Times Praise for Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts If you like little houses as much as I do, then your friends probably think you're weird. The images and ideas in Deek's book are not only great porn for tiny house freaks like us, but they also serve to show your friends that there is someone out there whose fascination with the subject is even more perverse than yours. --Jay Shafer, Tiny Tumbleweed House Company I was so wowed by this book. It's awesome. The information is practical and raw, and very unpretentious. The overall feel is so honest and authentic. --Gregory Paul Johnson- President of The National Small House Society and Resourcesforlife.com Think: Wayne's World-meets-'This Old House'- in book form. --Jon Kalish- NPR/National Public Radio D.I.Y. Host Deek brings the element of fun t

Praise for the author's tiny structures For ingenuity, thrift, and charm, Mr. Diedricksen's tiny structures are hard to beat. --New York Times Praise for Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts Using salvaged materials and power tools, Diedricksen creates cozy living spaces filled with artistic touches that you would never expect to see in an average trailer or treehouse. He'll create colorful patterns of blue and green glass circles on a wall by sawing wine bottles in half. He's been known to incorporate pickle jars into his designs. That round window that looks like a portal on a ship? That used to be the window on a front-loading washing machine. It's Mad Magazine, meets This Old House. --Emily Sweeney, The Boston Globe If you like little houses as much as I do, then your friends probably think you're weird. The images and ideas in Deek's book are not only great porn for tiny house freaks like us, but they also serve to show your friends that there is someone out there whose fascination with the subject is even more perverse than yours. --Jay Shafer, Tiny Tumbleweed House Company Humble Homes... is great book, I really enjoyed it, and its packed with information much like the old Whole Earth Catalog. --Lester Walker (Author of Tiny Houses, and American Shelter ) I was so wowed by this book. It's awesome. The information is practical and raw, and very unpretentious. The overall feel is so honest and authentic. --Gregory Paul Johnson- President of The National Small House Society and Resourcesforlife.com Think: Wayne's World-meets-'This Old House'- in book form. --Jon Kalish- NPR/National Public Radio D.I.Y. Host Deek brings the element of fun to the tiny house movement. He's obviously having a great time with his life, and his easily accessible drawings will inspire many a reader -- who would otherwise not have done so -- to pick up a hammer and saw and build a treehouse, a fort, a s

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Derek ( Deek ) Diedricksen was born and raised in Madison, Connecticut, and is a graduate of Northeastern University. After graduating from college he was a DJ at CBS radio station 104.1 WBCN in Boston. His comic strip, Slugs, not Hugs, has appeared in The Weekly Dig and Soundcheck Magazine.

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