Creator
Kirsten Dirksen
Films on unconventional homes and simple living: self-built cabins, small houses, gardens and the thinking of the people who make them.
Latest videos
100 videos
Three-sided greenhouse house masters heat & cold in tranquil Nordic village
Couple's indoor-outdoor natural life: underground pipes, double stove & cork
He turned fixer-upper hidden in French village maze into foot-only oasis
Couple builds pocket homestead with wood-fed Amish radiant floor
2nd act, fresh start: couple builds 4-generation mud-&-clay family village
Steelworker quits at 50, builds $50K cordwood home lit by colorful bottles
He dreamed of self-feeding solar house. So he built A-frame greenhouse home
After NYC, she moved to village dug underground: fixing 4 caves in 15 years
He built dirt-cheap homestead in off-grid village. Sharing tips 20 years on
FDR's floating White House sank. Descendants spent 15 years restoring it
Veteran saw collapse abroad. Now builds antifragile family homestead
Visionary dad built underground home. Son restored it to former glory
Couple couldn’t find affordable high-end prefab, so they created their own
Family wraps 2-container homestead in greenhouse to improve health & mood
Inspired by shantyboat youtuber, they built their budget floating homes
He sold roadside gas station. Then built mountain homestead to live freely
He turned Titan II nuclear missile silo into 3-story underground home
Underground mansion built in ancient cave maze has water spring inside
Solo on river shantyboat: quits city to live free at edge of society
Couple lost suburban home, then built a better life on Ozarks homestead
Couldn’t afford a house. Now he builds his own underground Missouri home
Was told not to build underground. Ravaging tornado proved him right
Living 35 ft underground: inside a preserved Titan II nuclear missile silo
Family wanted to start over. They're building opt-in village for anyone to apply
Leaves rat race, digs himself remote earthen home with underground rotunda
Couple builds homestead of 12 earthen domes linked like private village
Tall couple's Big small home: how 1 space gets infinite configurations
5 years building private village out of free dirt for family of 6
Veterans buy dirt-cheap land to build off-grid coliving homestead
It all started with 28 homes. A walkable food-forest made it a village oasis
Rebuilding abandoned giant Earthship into 3-story, off-grid home ecosystem
30 years fine-tuning micro-homestead oasis: nothing missing, little extra
Nordic homestead near Russian border: couple's no-bank, no-phone life
He lived on the street. Now turns raw dryland into frugal homestead
4-generation family builds container fourplex atop giant missile silo
Engineer's underground dome home blends into desert like living organism
They lived 3 years in a basement. Then built their dream backyard home
Couple buys whole ghost village, tells others to join & fix their own ruin
