Rolling Homes, 9780936070896
Paperback
DIY vehicle homes: inspiration, designs, and secrets for nomadic living.

Rolling Homes

shelter on wheels

$55.99

  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    8 April 2022

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Summary

Rolling Homes: DIY Mobile Living

If there’s not a nomadic revolution going on today, there’s certainly a nomadic movement. In the last few years, either for reasons of practicality (high costs of rent or mortgages), change in lifestyle, or the search for adventure, people are customizing all sorts of vehicles for travel.

This book focuses on DIY vehicles, with most of the 80 or so shown here fitted out for the road by their owners, similar to the way that the homes in all of…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780936070896
ISBN-10:0936070897
Author:Lloyd Kahn
Publisher:Shelter Publications
Imprint:Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:8 April 2022
Weight:907g
Dimensions:254mm x 215mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

”…flat out spectacular! Lloyd’s graphic layout skills are over the top. Insane photography, what a feast for the eyes.”

-Jeff Chamberlain, writer, photographer, The Surfer’s Journal

–Jeff Chamberlain “/”“Cram-packed with gorgeous full-color photos of wheeled wonders, Rolling Homes is a jump-start! Now I’m dreaming of that Bulgarian Vardo, a desert-to-forest-to-beach-to-backyard escape capsule.”

-C.M. Mayo

–C.M. Mayo“I was reading Lloyd Kahn’s excellent Gimme Shelter newsletter in which he announced his newest book Rolling Homes – Shelter on Wheels. It’s 272 pages and loaded with photos of people who have converted vehicles into houses that they can drive.”-Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing

–Mark Frauenfelder “/”

“Lloyd Kahn and Shelter Publications has just published another spectacular book featuring hundreds of color photographs of various forms of shelter on wheels. …if you are looking for inspiration to begin your own rolling shelter adventure, or just love immersing yourself in the amazing world of tiny homes on wheels, this book is for you.”

-Kelly Hart, naturalbuildingblog.com

“Lloyd Kahn’s Rolling Homes: Shelter on Wheels [is a] richly illustrated volume on nomadic lifestyles. The Californian pioneer of alternative living and building documents vehicle/homes from all over the world.”-Andrew Mink, Tachles Magazine, Zurich, Switzerland–Andrew Mink “/”“No one else but Lloyd and the team at Shelter could have made this wonderful book. Shelter is a master of publishing about creative, fascinating subcultures and this book looks like a gem. So much to look at, Lloyd’s enthusiasm seems to have consumed all the white space.”

-Buz Teacher, Co-founder of Running Press

–Buz Teacher “/”“The book is full of unique handmade and homemade rolling homes…. Lloyd Kahn’s large and colorful books are a must-have as books you keep on your shelf and hold in your hands. Thanks, Lloyd for another great book.”

-Kent Griswold, tinyhouseblog.com

–Kent Griswold “/”“FREAKING AMAZING…!!!…”-Paul Jensen, Hollowsurfboards.com“People who have enjoyed Shelter, Home Work, or Tiny Homes will love this book.”

-Bokus Books, Stockholm, Sweden

“87 years old and still publishing, Lloyd Kahn is an icon in housing ideas of the most extraordinaire kinds, organic from before I was born. As with his other books, pictures jam-packed on every page, his trademark, and just enough words to let you know the coolest things about the people who created and live in their ‘Rolling Homes’.”-Brad Kittel, Texas Tiny Houses

About The Author

Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started covering builders and buildings when he was the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968. In 1973, he produced the by-now legendary book Shelter, documenting building methods around the world, and covering the ‘60s countercultural movement in building. Since then he has published 12 books on building, including Tiny Homes, Home Work, Tiny Homes on the Move, Small Homes, and The Half-Acre Homestead: 46 Years of Building and Gardening. He and his wife, Lesley, reside in Bolinas, California.

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