Building “green” houses is a growing trend in construction but certainly not a new one. One of our SabbaticalHomes.com members, Jennifer Siegal, has designed and built her own green home and it is one of the first of its kind available on SabbaticalHomes.com. In addition…
SabbaticalHomes.com has launched a new feature this year, the House Share. Sam Hickey, one of our members, is the first to have experienced this option for travel and it was a huge success. “This was a pleasant and good match for me. My housemates were…
SabbaticalHomes.com members make their homes available for a variety of reasons but one of the most unique might just come from Ian Johnson and his partner Ien Ang. They are living in two countries, Australia and France. When they are away from one of their…
BBC author Kate Ashford explains how to effectively plan for your sabbatical in her article Planning a Sabbatical? Smart tips for the journey. From the length of preparation time to how to do it less expensively, she covers many relevant points. She writes, “If it…
Gabrielle Blair is the captain of DesignMom.com, a website full of fabulous tips and information at the intersection of motherhood and design. This year, she is taking her whole family to live in France and has found a perfect home in the beautiful Normandy region….
Living a bicontinental lifestyle from Berlin to Los Angeles—each city with a different culture—home is where you make it. It’s Deike Peters’ fifth time successfully finding renters for her Berlin home through SabbaticalHomes.com. She, her screenwriter husband, and two children have chosen to live a…
With the endless knowledge derived from traveling the unknown, don’t you think Benjamin Franklin would have been eager to use SabbaticalHomes.com? The thought of Benjamin Franklin being a SabbaticalHomes.com member if he were alive today tickled my mind while touring the Benjamin Franklin House during my…
Minds on the Move Around the World with Professors Konrad and Hannelore Jarausch Professors Konrad and Hannelore Jarausch have active academic appointments that bring them across all corners of the globe. They are both on the faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Konrad…
More Than Just a Home Sitter…One member’s story of friendship SabbaticalHomes.com member Debra Deliso enjoys her work as an actor, teacher, director and writer in the greater Los Angeles area. Home Sitting brings her across the vast city and helps inspire her work. When fellow…
Shelley Miller reveals her biggest secret, “With home exchanging you will never say, ‘I wish we could afford to travel.’ Instead you’ll ask, ‘Where should we go next?’.” We were so pleased when this up-and-coming author (Postcards From Home: Exchange the home, save the family)…
