Category: Jonathan Avery
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NestPod Tiny House by Jonathan Avery
The NestPod™ Tiny House- a new take on the mobile home, caravan or living wagon. I have just finished building the first NestPod™ which is a mobile multi use tiny house on wheels otherwise known as a caravan, living wagon etc. There are three models in the range – the Solo, Outback and Venture and four form factors. NestPods…
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NestHouse Tiny House by Jonathan Avery
Tiny House Scotland completed building the prototype NestHouse in June 2016 – a culmination of over two years research and development by designer and craftsman Jonathan Avery to produce…a highly insulated modular moveable micro house. This energy efficient, eco-friendly, sustainable Small House or Cabin, can be on-grid, off-grid or hybrid powered. It is a very comfortable 3.4m wide and is available in several lengths and module…
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Greenland Place
My favourite photo of my Dad George and I taken inside Greenland Place in Camden, London – my photography and graphics studio circa 1986. This was my second premises, having been in a Council incubator unit with Nick and our business The Image Factor, just around the corner in Carol Street Workshops for a year…
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Nesthouse Moveable Modular Small House System
I have designed the Nesthouse as a modular system – each of the three sizes 3.6m, 4.8m and 6.0m comes in a basic form (Live) available with three optional extra modules – Entry, Bathe and Sleep – giving internal areas ranging from 11.5m2 – 32.7m2
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Hare returns?
I’ve not seen a hare in the field for over two years but now we have a wheat crop next door again and I saw one over the hedge in that field the other evening. You can imagine my delight when I spotted this pair of ears on my morning walk this morning and rushed back…
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Gothic Arbour – Tiny House Scotland
Tiny House Scotland’s latest construction – a garden arbour in a neo-gothic style. To be used as a view point, weather shelter and sculptural landmark. L 2.1m x W 1.1m x H 3.3m. Heavy timber frame post and beam with new and recycled materials. Redwood shiplap cladding. Sixty degree roof. Hand cast concrete piers. Recycled windows set asymmetrically…
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Garden Gate 2
Rustic garden gate with a combination of recycled pallet, treated timber and roundwood detailing by Jonathan Avery.
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Knife Block
Last week we bought three new Japanese Tetsuhiro kitchen knives from Niwaki and seeing as our old knife block was looking very tired, I thought I would rattle up a new one in the workshop! This is the heavyweight replacement – alternating layers of beech and quarter-sawn oak with a danish oil finish and 12 degree…
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Happy Christmas everyone!!
Committed to saving the planet…here is this year’s digital Christmas card for all our family and friends around the world. Happy Christmas everyone and a prosperous New Year in 2015.
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Tiny House Scotland
New website started for Tiny House Scotland. Its a work in progress as the product is still at prototype stage.
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Photo voltaics can be beautiful!
Who says solar power can’t be gorgeous? The people of New Caledonia are out to prove the naysayers wrong with what may be the most beautiful solar farm on the planet. The heart-shaped solar farm will supply 2 megawatts of solar power to 750 homes on the Pacific island, reducing carbon emissions while enhancing the…
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Stitch Gathering 2014
I was official photographer at the Stitch Gathering Modern Quilt Retreat 2014 event in Edinburgh. Stuck with 70 ladies for a whole day – poor me! The rest of the pics are here.
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Swallow update.
The famous five have now taken to being fed on the TV aerial rather than staying in the wood shed. The parents show their amazing flying skills by constantly feeding them on the wing.
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bridge
Bridge design for Shangri La Farm to replace what was basically an eight metre plank which finally gave way. Now under construction.
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Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild Logo
I have just finished designing the logo for the Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild. It blends the colours from their parent body – the Modern Quilt Guild which was formed in Los Angeles in October of 2009, with an iconic view of Edinburgh Castle taken from one of my photographs. I drew the outlines using Adobe Illustrator then added…
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Owl Nest Box
Owl nest box from scrap plywood. 2011. Being sized up by a pair of Jackdaws as a potential “des-res”.
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Shangri La Bridge in the snow.
Japanese lantern juxtaposed with wooden bridge and vanishing point through the Scots Pines.
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Shangri La Duck House
Built out of scrap fencing and plywood. So far it has only housed a wasps nest; I haven’t plucked up the courage to actually get some water fowl.