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Hanging seating

December 10, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

These hanging chairs are the culmination of a long and somewhat insane evolution that started when we got the idea that it might be cool to suspend a bar beneath our roof beam so we could reach up and stretch anytime we wanted.The bar we decided would be supported by 1/2” eyebolts that penetrate...

Installing kitchen shelving

December 8, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

There’s an ancient paradox that states that it’s impossible to arrive anywhere because at any point on the journey the remaining distance can always be divided in half. Similarly, there’s a principal in map making that the length of any shoreline increases infinitely with the level of magnification, due to the need to trace...

Raising the SIP walls on a Minim tiny house

December 5, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

My friend Nick is building a structural insulated panel Minim tiny house and last weekend I filmed while Nick and crew raised the walls. Long time tiny house builder and sales person for Premier SIPS, Patrick Sughue was there to direct the action.I can’t really decide how I feel about structural insulated panels and...

Ventilation Frustration

December 3, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

I’m having some serious ventilation frustration right now so I thought I’d reach out and see if anyone has any insights that I haven’t thought of.People talk a lot about humidity and odors in tiny houses but from the data I’m collecting your CO2 is through the roof long before either of those things...

Our squirrel neighbors

December 3, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

I know you’re not supposed to feed wildlife blah blah blah, but ever since I read that the majority of squirrels don’t make it past their first winter I’ve decided that goddammit, I can’t save all the squirrels but maybe I can save OUR squirrels.These adorable little fluff balls burst forth from the giant...

(Literal) can lighting

November 30, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

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...

A Tiny Thanksgiving

November 29, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

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...

Running a new water line to the trailer

November 27, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

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...

Some photos of the interior

November 24, 2019December 23, 2019Leave a comment

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...

Photos: custom wall shelf unit

November 23, 2019November 24, 2019Leave a comment

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...