Off Grid Life: Your Ideal Home in the Middle of Nowhere

by Foster Huntington

Overview

This visually stunning tour of unique homes--including tiny houses, shipping containers, yurts, and boathouses from all around the world--invites you to slow down and consider a new lifestyle where you truly live by your own rules.
 
After spending three years on the road living in a camper van, Foster Huntington, author of Van Life, continued his unconventional lifestyle by building a two-story treehouse. Foster, like many others, are finding tranquility and adventure in living off the grid in unconventional homes.

Organized into sections like tree houses, tiny houses, shipping containers, yurts, boathouses, barns, vans, and more, Off Grid Life features 250 aspirational photographs in enviable settings like stunning beaches, dramatic mountains, and picturesque forests. Also included are images of fully designed interiors with kitchens and sleeping quarters as well as interviews with solo dwellers, couples, and families who are living this new American dream.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762497928
Publisher:	Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date:	10/27/2020
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	211 MB
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About the Author

Foster Huntington is the author of Van Life and is a photographer and filmmaker from Skamania, Washington. He built a multi-platform treehouse known as the Cinder Cone in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington and currently works on short films and photo projects in his studio.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii

Introduction: Small Structures 101 with Lloyd Khan-Perspectives from the Guru xxiii

1 Cabins 1

Rebirth of an Old Commune with Artist Fritz Haeg Off Grid in the Pacific Northwest with Tree Climber Ryan Cafferky

2 Yurts, Tents, and Huts 40

Living Off Grid at Nine Thousand Feet in a Yurt in the Rocky Mountains with Steven and Hanna Nereo

3 Earthships and Underground Structures 60

Building and Living in an Earthship in the Santa Cruz Mountains with Builder Taylor Bode

4 Shipping Containers 74

Chris Graham's Off Grid Shipping Container Getaway in Upstate New York

5 Treehouses 90

A Treehouse Colony in the Mountains of Washington

6 Tiny Homes 120

Building a Dream Tiny Home with Tucker Gorman

7 Boats 153

Trevor and Maddie Gordon's Sailboat Home and Escape Pod

8 Vehicles 172

Aniela Gottwald's Trailer Home for Horses and Adventures Vehicles I Have Known and Loved with Foster Huntington

Acknowledgments 208

Contributors 209

Editorial Reviews

The heavily illustrated volume is a collection of photos and essays that…. unfurl the imagination: an Earthship modeled after a Hobbit house, a fire pit in the woods beside a homely black shipping container, a treehouse with a wraparound porch, nestled between birches or aspens. If you really are thinking of returning to the land (or sea), this book will both feed your fantasy and give you a taste of what the experience is really like…. Whether you’re dreaming, hoping or planning, Off Grid Life is a good place to spark — or park — your dreams.”
 —Timothy R. Smith, The Washington Post

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