Tiny Texas Houses from Salvaged Materials

Reader Contribution by Lloyd Kahn and Shelter Publications
Published on October 18, 2017
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These recycled buildings, offered for sale out of Luling, Texas (between San Antonio and Houston), are built of recycled materials, based on traditional designs. They have instant soul. This is a wonderful body of work by builder Brad Kittel. The following is an excerpt from Lloyd Kahn’s Tiny Homes, Simple Shelter (Shelter Publications, 2012).

Our buildings are 99 percent pure salvage. Everything — doors, floors, windows, lumber, porch posts, glass, door hardware, and even the siding — has been saved and re-used to create houses that we hope will last for a century or more.

I believe that there are presently enough building materials sitting on the ground in the U.S. to build much of the next generation of housing. All it takes is pure human energy, spirit, and the desire to build something that will last for several lifetimes.

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