After a year and a half of living in a Brooklyn apartment, Casey Brown and Danfung Dennis started hatching an escape plan. So in 2012, the couple swapped urban life for total seclusion: a 12-acre lot ...

A pair of environmentalists take their green lifestyle beyond the grid After a year and a half of living in a Brooklyn apartment, Casey Brown and Danfung Dennis started hatching an escape plan. So in ...

The yurt’s restroom, which makes use of wood and other materials found outdoors and repurposed as part of the decor. Exterior view of the home yurt, a two-story design where Nathan Toler and his wife, ...

Living in paradise can be expensive. Not anymore. Consider a yurt. They’re not just for camping anymore. These funky, ready-to-pop domiciles are gaining mainstream appeal and are riding the housing ...

SWOOPE - The house is starting to look like a home. What started as a wooden platform has now been transformed into a circular home known as a yurt. It's a project that began nearly two years ago. A ...

SWOOPE - Martha Lappin and her husband Serquei Protsenko bought their land in Augusta County back in April. The two had intended to live in a log cabin, but with the cost of building that structure, ...