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Sharing Economy The rise in popularity in hosting sites such as Airbnb even influenced some design decisions for 60k House. That’s one reason the place is now 93k House. I only ever wanted to design and build something modest and humble, somewhere I could escape to on weekends or leave all my stuff while I…

Monday December 26 Realisation A few days before Christmas a friend of mine said to me: you must enjoy going home, it’s such a great place. Up until then I had always looked around and all I could see was an endless list of jobs that needed to be finished. The house had slowly been…

Changes Sorry for the lack of recent posts. I’ve been busy. I’ve been away. My friends and relatives in Europe know where I was – traveling around Europe, visiting them.   Not much usually changes when I go overseas – this time it did. It seems as though other people back home also knew I…

Sunday November 15, Saturday November 21 / Sunday November 22, Monday December 14, Tuesday December 22, Friday December 25 Purpose This is what it’s all about: gatherings. People, activity, friends catching up around a fire, cooking a BBQ and having fun. 60k House has been designed as a one bedroom shack but with an eye…

Bargain! I purchased the block of land in 2009 for only $75,000. It wasn’t on the market for long. My parents had wanted to buy the block and planned to retire there but didn’t have the money, so I bought it with the intention they may still move there later. I don’t know much about…

Who is the client? It’s me. Andrew. A local who grew up in the area, went to the nearby school and used to pick cherries during the summer holidays on the adjacent farm. I used the money I earned working at Domeney Bros to buy my first car, travel overseas and not have to work…

Flowerpot Located 35 minutes south of Hobart in the delightful town of Flowerpot (yes – it is a real place in Tasmania!), the site is 1.5 hectares (3.5 acres) – around 210m long by 70m wide. The block used to be part of the famous Domeney Bros fruit farm (although I don’t think it ever…

House or Shack? The project is titled 60k House but I consider it to be more of a shack. What’s the difference? It all depends on how you use it. A house suggests a home, a permanent place to live. A shack speaks of something less permanent, a place that lends itself to informal living,…