Once you’ve lived with low spotlighting over a kitchen counter it’s impossible to go back to anything else. Under-cabinet or under-shelf LED strips work well but when you have a big window like we do pendant lighting is the better choice.I would gladly buy something pre-wired and pre-fabricated for this but it seemed like...
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A Tiny Thanksgiving
The Thanksgiving meal offers a great opportunity to test drive and talk about our new tiny house kitchen. How do tiny house kitchens perform? About like any other kitchen really which is either great, mediocre, or terrible depending on who designed them and who is using it for what purpose.We cook the way we...
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Running a new water line to the trailer
Back to the non-glamorous side of tiny housing, in anticipation of cold weather we scrambled to switch out our garden hose water supply with a buried insulated pex line. To keep everything as code compliant as possible we are still feeding off a hose bib which in this case meant installing a new one...
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Some photos of the interior
Today we took some time to document our almost-finished tiny house interior before we officially move in. Like everything I build I’m sure there’s going to be major revisions and changes being made once we interact with the space for a few weeks, but for right now it’s nice to pause and enjoy the...
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Photos: custom wall shelf unit
We are absolutely in love with the sparse, clean, industrial look of the new shelves we built out of black pipe, steel rod, and off cuts from our maple countertops. (Finished with Rubio Monocoat). With this piece in place the tiny house interior is really starting to come together and we can finally get...
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Building a custom wall shelf
This one is definitely going to have to be a double post. Over the last couple days we built and installed our second shelving unit using vertical steel pipe and horizontal steel rods to support shelving we made out of leftover pieces from our hard maple counter tops.This installation uses 3/4” black pipe stretching...
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Steel pin shelf supports
Today we installed some kitchen shelves using steel rod for support. This clean minimalist technique is a great way to add a light industrial element without the bulky look of pipe brackets.We planned for this a long way in advance adding blocking inside the walls to drill into later. I generally don’t do this...
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Timelapse: building a woven privacy screen
These lightweight, inexpensive, easy to build woven wooden screens are a great way to add beauty and texture wherever a non-structural partition is needed. More details in yesterday‘s post and we should have an instructional video up on our YouTube channel in a couple of days. . -Brian...
Building a woven privacy screen
Spent today making a woven wooden privacy screen for outside of our bathroom window. I’ve been making these ridiculously easy to build, beautiful screens for about 10 years now out of scrap wood from various building projects and my boatbuilding business. Once you know what you’re doing it takes about three hours to put...
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A few glamour shots
The last few days have been a lot of the unglamorous side of tiny house building: plumbing repairs, caulk redos, too many trips to the hardware store. But in the middle of so many two-step-forward-one-step-back days we got a brief afternoon of sunshine and managed to snap some glamour shots of the exterior while...
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