June 2019 – actually tiny

Planning the porch roof

June 30, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

We spent the morning checking and rechecking the measurements for the porch roof using what we like to call “the dumb guy way” which is mocking everything up at full size to check for errors. The porch roof is tricky because even though it’s not technically part of the tiny house it’s almost touching...

Timelapse: Building the deck

June 29, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

The first phase of the tiny deck is complete! . It always feels kinda weird to me building a plain ol’ pier block, pressure-treated and outdoor wood deck. As an environmentally-conscious person a standard deck feels like a superfluous pile of poison, although that might be an outdated prejudice ever since PT lumber switched from arsenic...

Laminating our countertops

June 27, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

Sometimes you can save a lot of time and money by doing everything yourself and then there are other times where getting professional help is actually the cheaper option. Case in point: a few weeks ago I got a great deal on some gorgeous hard maple to make into countertops. Boards are just the...

Prepping for the deck

June 26, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

Last week we made the decision to stop work on the tiny house for a couple weeks and build the deck instead. This gives us a some breathing room to finalize various interior decisions and completes a task that would probably be a lot less fun in the blazing heat of August. I did...

Pairing shiplap and metal siding

June 25, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

Our approach for siding the north and west walls was to use metal down low and cedar up high. Not only does this reduce costs but we feel like it will wear better over time with both of these walls pushed up against adjacent fences in the perpetually cool shadow of the massive horse...

Building a tongue box

June 24, 2019October 22, 2019Leave a comment

We spent the majority of yesterday building a beautiful little box that we are now going to remove.This is one of those painful moments where a design element is 75% OK, and 25% ‘ouch, that doesn’t look right’, which is about 15% more than Liz or I are willing to tolerate.Functionally the idea behind...

Timelapse: adding siding details to the tiny house

June 22, 2019October 22, 2019Leave a comment

I sometimes wish I could edit my actual life as easily as a video. For example, this is what putting up siding looks like when you remove the three trips down the ladder per board! . - Brian...

Adding siding details

June 20, 2019October 22, 2019Leave a comment

The process of deciding on how to proceed with the vertical siding detail has been a real challenge. After two days and probably 1000 trips up the ladder holding up the various sizes and colors of datum boards (the band around the house) and vertical siding, Liz and I were stuck in a stalemate...

Timelapse: installing siding

June 18, 2019October 22, 2019Leave a comment

Offgrid tiny house build, Days 38 & 39 Liz: 12 hours, Brian: 12 hours . This past weekend marked the two month mark for our build. Getting the siding about 2/3 installed felt symbolic - at the end of the weekend we could step back and really see for the first time how everything is coming together,...

Installing the cedar shiplap siding, part 2

June 17, 2019October 22, 2019One Comment

We did more work on the siding today and started getting into a groove with the whole process. We managed to get the lower 2/3 of the front face done, where soon we will switch the siding to a vertical orientation.On the east wall we left a space and installed a flashing where the...