basic personal shelter

I design very small, one-person houses I call Basic Personal Shelter. Thus the website BPS.house. Affordability, simplicity, and privacy drive the desire to live in a very small house. There is a huge demand for affordable housing worldwide. The BPS could be mass-produced to meet this demand. It then becomes Mass Personal Housing.

I design furniture for people who sit on the floor. I call it Floorsitter Furniture. The very small space of the BPS doesn't leave much room for furniture. So living on the floor makes sense because the whole room becomes the chair. Furniture for floorsitters needs to be low to the floor, easy to move, takes up little space, and serves a purpose. For this I have the website Floorsitter.furniture.

This is the website of

Jeff Abrams, AIA Architect

Email: Jeff@VerySmallHouse.com

Phone/text: 803-447-6231 USA

This is my book on Basic Personal Shelter. The front and back cover is to the left.

I have recently had the book printed. I have posted the book proofs here. If you want a hard copy email me and I will tell you where you can buy it.

You can read the full book by clicking on the PDF symbol below.

Click on the PDF Symbol to Read the Book BASIC PERSONAL SHELTER

On June 22, 2018, I delivered a talk at the national AIA (American Institute of Architects) conference in New York City titled Basic Personal Shelters: Expanding a Vision for One-Person Houses. Click on the PDF symbols to the right to read the narrative and see the powerpoint slides that go with it.	Click on the PDF Symbol to read the Narrative of the talk.
	Click on the PDF Symbol to see the Powerpoint of the talk.

Floorsitter Furniture:

I am a floorsitter, which means I sit on the floor, not in chairs, when in my home. It started for me when I did yoga sessions. It has continued in floor exercizes at the gym. In general, I am comfortable sitting on the floor. It feels free, unrestrained. It works well in a very small house because furniture quickly fills up a space. A nice rug, or layers of rugs, makes the floor comfortable. And the motion of getting up and down is an exercize in itself. I consider it a healthy by-product of a very small house. The picture to the right shows using computer packing boxes for low tables. I hope to develop this further. I have obtained the domain name Floorsitter.furniture. We will see where this goes.

Note: The pics of my 12 x 20 BPS show regular furniture. I put it in there so that a person who is not a floorsitter would see that this house is livable.