Humanure Dry Toilet Made From a Milk Crate

July 18, 2009

...clean, and is made of readily available materials. I think this particular design will be useful in emergencies and, when combined with Jenkin’s excellent humanure methods, would prevent the dangerous raw sewage nightmares of the sort we saw in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. There is a creative commons licence on all the text and photos on this website so feel free to translate and disseminate this post widely. We’re “open source” here at Roo...

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The Art and Architecture of C.F.A. Voysey

Mr. Homegrown

December 21, 2018

Design, Thoughtstylings

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...led on the work of C.F.A. Voysey, an English Arts and Crafts architect and designer. He took an obsessive gesamtkunstwerk (total art work) approach to his architectural commissions, insisting on designing not just the building but the furniture and everything down to the pen trays. Very conservative politically, he was an exception to the more progressive bent of the movement. It’s also obvious that he spent every spare moment of his life obsessiv...

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Flipped Out: The End of the American Bungalow

Mr. Homegrown

June 24, 2019

Design

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...s such; nor does it seek to produce or manage one. As we have seen, casino design follows what one leading firm calls the “immersion paradigm,” holding players in a desubjectified state of uninterrupted motion so as to galvanize, channel, and profit from what the academic consultants quoted earlier called the “experiential affect.” With no walls or doors with which to escape the gaze of our fellow housemates and bright lights and white walls every...

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Beautifying the Home Grounds: Your Source for 1920s Outdoor Project Inspiration

Mr. Homegrown

October 16, 2019

Design, Garden Design, Gardening

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I have a simple design process here at the Root Simple compound. I ask the house what it wants. The house, being a fuddy-duddy, vaguely colonial bungalow build in 1920, invariably tells me that it want something fuddy-duddy and vaguely colonial. It doesn’t want innovation or Starchitects or Pottery Barn or Ikea. The house doesn’t care what I want. My most successful outdoor and indoor projects have been ones that nobody notices, that look like th...

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Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things

Mr. Homegrown

July 20, 2016

Animals, Cats, Design

...ve got a library copy), but I’ve spent a many evenings leafing through the pages. On a side note, many of the objects in this book are temporary outdoor art installations, something you see a lot of in Northern Europe in the summer. I don’t know why we don’t see more of these types of art and design shows in the U.S. They’re popular and a nice use of public space. The book has inspired me this morning to cut the blogging short and head to my works...

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