I recently attended an overnight at Salvage Texas (just across IH10 from Luling Texas) as part of the Houston Photowalks Photography Club. < https://www.meetup.com/HoustonPhotowalks/ >
It was a bit cold and cloudy much of the time, but what a great event and trip. We spent the night in tiny homes built almost completely from recycled materials. The warehouse onsite is said to contain enough recycled materials to create some 300 more of these tiny homes. If you want to know more, check out www.tinytexashouses.com. You can also search Airbnb and rent one of the homes yourself if you are up for a unique experience that is really more camping than a vacation cabin rental.
The smallest of the units we stayed in was a total of 118 square feet and that included the sleeping loft. You can check out my Instagram feed for more photos from the trip. Above is a sunset photo of the newest project under construction. Hard to look at it and not have your mind wander off to Peter Pan’s never never land. The other photo above is of one of the work areas in the warehouse.
Such a great place to spend time taking photographs. So many details and textures, colors and materials, shapes and silhouettes to discover. And the hand crafted and artful “tiny homes” are such a great example of human creativity manifest in the built environment.
Thanks to the great folks running / hosting at Salvage Texas and to all the interesting and welcoming folks in the Houston Photowalks group that attended.