All About Alternative Housing Options

We like to joke at Alternative Housing Options that we could live like the Homeward Bound (HoBo) and make a home wherever necessary along our journey. While the HoBos of the civil war began riding...

When the weather gets warmer, I think about camping. One of the more interesting ways of camping is to build a tipi or tepee, a home for most of the plains Indian tribes in North America due to the...

Do you remember sleeping in a treehouse with your sleeping bag and pillow when you were younger, using a flashlight to read your book, or looking out the window at all the stars up high and the...

Some of you may be scratching your heads wondering what the heck fire to freedom means and how that fits in with an ambulance, much less a converted ambulance house. Take a short walk with me through...

The use of straw bales to build buildings, including houses, has been around since the late 1800s in Nebraska. It’s no surprise that with soaring costs to build a traditional, stick-built...

You’ve seen them in use and left to rust all over the countryside, silos. In the midwestern United States, farming is still big business, and most silos are in use, but they need to be replaced...