Category Archives: Article by founder, Tim Hewitt-Coleman

We are constantly challenged in South Africa (and all over the world) by Municipalities, Governments, Homeowners Associations and all manner of other agencies, who see it as their mission and purpose to prevent ordinary people like you and me from building what we would like to build for ourselves with our own precious time andContinue reading “Exploring the Relationship Between Land Use Right Restrictions and Wealth Inequality”

Good Morning my dear friends and colleagues. It is a cool Saturday morning. I write to you in the stillness before the house awakes, when only my loyal and ever-present Great Danes Tank and Nakia are by my side on my study floor. I am writing to wish you all well for 2021 and toContinue reading “Feeling my way into 2021 and the exciting future beyond!”

(I know that many of you consider buying a TimberTiny home as a step toward an off grid lifestyle. So I thought maybe I would share with you some of my own ramblings bout my attempts at off-grid living at my little farm called Pebblespring. I wrote this piece for my Blog sometime in 2014Continue reading “Off the Grid – small steps”

(Building a timber home not only traps carbon that trees extracted from the Atmosphere, storing it as solid timber for a very long time, but it also avoids the use of cement, steel and bricks, which hold a huge amount of embodied energy. In other words a hell of a lot of heat was usedContinue reading “Architects, Green buildings and Climate Change”

(I have been interested in building and designing timber homes for a very long time. You see I just love everything about about trees. I love planting trees, I love walking among them, I like building things with the timber they give us, I love cooking on the logs that we harvest from them. ButContinue reading “Littlewoods Forest House – 2007”