Falene Nurse is a British-Bajan American writer who lives on the road. She is named after a Disney character and likes deserted beaches, sassy animals, and drag queens.
The best green, tiny homes are simple by design, not extravagant.
Simplicity, eco-friendly architecture, and habitual comfort, usually work effortlessly together with both nature and landscape, not against it. However, when also seen through a more racially (and socially) diverse lens, this can be deeply influenced by historical and cultural contexts, too. The layers to unpack behind those design principles and identities become a little more complex when the man executing the build also happens to be a queer person of color (QPoC.)
Barbados born designer Junior Sealy is as vanguard as the spaces he creates. A quick glimpse at his Instagram, and you soon see a multi-disciplinary artist who is once a chameleon of sorts in the fashion world and a self-taught furniture maker and DIY home builder—a unique trajectory for someone who started their working life as a certified accountant. Sealy doesn't let others' limited outlook restrict him or his creative pursuits. After six years running successful Toronto-based contemporary fashion brand L A B & iD, his commissioned woodworks now live in artist pop-ups and eco-lodges across Barbados.