I said all this in the opening post of the blog, but I’ll post it here for later reference;

Please allow me to introduce myself;

I’m the “King of Corten”.

Wait, that’s not it…

I’m “a voice in the wilderness”, “a pariah in the re-purposed palace”, “a monk from the mountains”, “a soothsayer of Steel”, “that #%$@! being chased out of town by an unruly mob with burning brands and pitchforks”…

Look, I ain’t saying that “I’m too cool for school”. In fact, I don’t hang out in the coolest bars, party with movie stars, stand in club lines trying to look cool enough to bluff the doorman, or taint my brain with “bathtub chemistry”.

(Unless you count home-brewed beer!)

I’ve been called a “Rock Star of Radical Architecture.”

(Okay, so it was a drunk housing rep at a trade show, but he said it! People heard him and everything!) :)

I design and build homes that some call “unorthodox”…

But, I say they’re “near-sighted”. I call them affordable, sustainable, energy efficient homes and I help families build them in some of the most obscure places one can possibly imagine.

I’m not kidding. I’m talking about almost all the continents (NO Builds on Antarctica yet!) and enough countries to fill up your passport pages a few times. And I quite often build then out of materials that most people would toss in a dumpster.

In fact, I’ve even USED the dumpster as building material a few times.

In MY world, you’ll see everything from cast off steel boxes to bags filled with dirt.

Sometimes we even combine the two, to built impenetrable family fortresses!

My heroes aren’t guys like Batman.

They’re guys like Malcolm Wells (may he rest in peace), Owen Geiger , Michael Janzen, Laren Corie, and a few other “nomadic nobles” who seek “peace thru sustainable housing”… in spite of it’s apparent “political incorrectness”.

I’ve figured out long ago that the experts in “frontier  housing ” don’t live in glass skyscrapers harbored in big cities…

… they live in “the wilds” using their hands and hearts instead of pencils or CAD Pucks.

BTW: I’m not an “overnight success” unless “overnight” takes over thirty freakin’ years.

Nor am I a “building virgin” looking to “reinvent myself in troubled times”… I have literally hundreds of builds under my belt.

At least that’s what I tell my wife that bulge is… ;)

I collect Harleys and old guitars, I’d probably have longer hair if I had hair at all (high humidity = shaved head) and I definitely prefer denim and cotton  to silk and polyester.

I collect wristwatches but I COVET tools. You can tell a lot about a man by his tools.

I write another blog, “The Life and Times of a Renaissance Ronin”, that preaches the gospel of using ISBUs (repurposed shipping containers) to build some of the most comfortable and sustainable housing on the planet.

My  book – “Introductions to Container Homes and Buildings” is a journey…

… into “Alternative Building Practices, using recycled and repurposed materials”. Yes, I’m talking about Shipping Container Housing.

My newest book – “The Nuts and Bolts of ISBU Buildings” is an expedition…

… into actually building an ISBU home by putting tab A into Slot B.  I’m going to SHOW you, how we do it.

And this blog is about all the ways you can use your brains to keep that building budget in check and build a strong, safe home for your family.

Live long, and prosper. Nanoo nannoo…:)