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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Another leak
This isn’t a glamorous post but it is a very teachable moment. I ran into another problem today caused partially by me and partially by the extremely tight space for our water heater. (Which is caused by the fact that we can’t get a tiny house taller than 12 feet out of this location).This...
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Off-the-sheld bed + storage
We built the bed and the under bed storage drawers today thanks to the magic of IKEA. Could I build my own bed frame and storage drawers from scratch? You betcha, but it would cost me more in materials alone plus two days of labor, which is where IKEA starts to look really appealing....
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A leak in the system
Today started with high hopes that were somewhat soggy by the end. The plan for today was to flush the water piping and pressure test all of the newly installed components for our somewhat complicated hybrid wood-fired, solar thermal and electric hot water system. It’s always a good practice to take the head off...
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Undersink plumbing
We installed the sink today, ticking yet another item off the punch list.Our sink is a reclaimed stainless steel double basin sink that we bought from the Rebuilding Center. Old stainless sinks are durable inexpensive, lightweight, and environmentally friendly, satisfying four of my five requirements for a tiny house. The fifth one is aesthetics,...
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Updating the outdoor shower plumbing
Today we revised the outdoor shower plumbing situation by dropping the valve/handle location 5 inches and building a new wooden cover with integrated soap shelf that does away with the horrible escutcheon altogether.It’s always surprising to me how small changes like this can completely transform the feel of a space. I could never be...
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