Despite my three month hiatus on posting (I’m looking into starting a breeding program to see about getting days to produce more hours 😉 ), work on the tiny house has continued in force, so I must catch this blog up to the current state of the house!

Now that we completed the exterior of the house, we move to the inside to tackle the interior.  On to the next half. (Half?? Are we really halfway there??) Continue reading →

… well, at least from the outside!  🙂

With Eli back from the field, we made the final push to get the last few rows of siding installed on the bay window side of the house.  Along with the boards around the wheel wells, these boards required the most precise cuts and were some of the most difficult to make look sharp.  Continue reading →

One evening, while Eli and I were taking our daily sunset stroll around our yard, we got a wild hare (hair?) to tear the protective film off of all the windows (well, the lower-level ones my mom had finished sealing the wood with polyurethane) – we just wanted to see how awesome they would look without it and with most of the siding done, well, we just got impatient! Continue reading →

You know, with Eli out in the field almost continuously for the past two months, and therefore progress slowed on the tiny house, you’d think I’d have had more time for writing blog posts…  “The days are just packed.”  Work on Hygge Hale has continued, albeit at a much more leisurely pace.

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With the shingles finished and all the utility inlets/outlets squared away, it’s now full out siding on the lower half of the house.  We can’t wait to have the exterior fully completed.  It will feel like a significant landmark, for sure. Continue reading →

The days disappear, and I wonder why the items on my to-do list don’t go with them…  Writing this blog post has been hanging on that to-do list for over a month and a half!

Before we could dive in full tilt on installing the siding on the lower portion of the house, we had to first put some holes in the walls!  Continue reading →

Now we’re back to continuing on the shingles and trim – since I’ve already talked about these two things in a previous post, we’ll just get straight to pictures. Continue reading →

I mean, I guess somewhere in my subconscious, I realized that people used to build doors themselves all the time, back in the days when folks had to be much more self-sufficient, but how many people do you know who’ve made a door?  Because most of the exterior doors I’ve lived with have been metal, I never really thought about the potential for building a door on one’s own. Continue reading →

The day has finally come!  The Sardine woodstove has ARRIVED!!!  I’ve been eagerly anticipating this since we ordered it last year.  It took a bit longer for it to get made and sent to us Continue reading →

I’m excited to finally be getting to the parts where we make the house look good, not just being sure it’s solid.  Here comes the window trim and siding.  We decided to start on the short back wall of the house hoping our technique and showmanship would improve with practice. Continue reading →

It’s been much too long!  I’m letting the time between my updates on our build stretch and stretch some more.  But, life is such a full thing with so many experiences and to-dos and building tasks and lovely moments and TAXES (ugh, ugh, ugh) to vie for our minutes. Continue reading →

Keeping a house cozy in the winter and comfortable in the summer is no small feat, but one we so often take for granted in our modern homes built by other hands.  Creating our temperature-regulated cocoons with just inches separating our pleasant interiors from the large temperature fluctuation of the world is a job well done.

So we’ve been contemplating the most efficient way to do this.  Continue reading →

Alright, that title’s a bit dramatic, the “belt” we put on our tiny house is really just for aesthetics, so I guess a fashion belt versus a keep it up or contained belt.  We decided to put both cedar lap siding and cedar shingles on the exterior of our house to add a bit more texture complexity and a little more fun for the eyes (see a visual of this on our model), so we needed a clean line between the two siding types. Continue reading →

Instead of just leaving our tiny house as a plywood pentagon, we decided we needed some portals to the world – those windows that have been hanging out in our barn since last spring.

But first, with us spending more and more time going into the house, Eli was so kind as to make that climb easier. Another surprise when I came home from work was a set of entry stairs! Continue reading →

And, we thought the roof would take a day or two!  Ha!  As is so often the case with human minds, the other side appears so close – it’s just right over there! – but the time of completing a task really twists to follow the path around to the back of gully, then back out again to that other side.  Along with us ground-stranded beings, undertakings don’t seem to fly as the crow does either. Continue reading →

After all that roof prep work, we’re finally putting the roofing metal itself on.  Since our tiny house has a tiny roof (who’d have thought!), first step was to Continue reading →

Since we’ll now be spending a good bit of time on the roof, we decided it was a good time to cut the hole in the roof deck for the roof window and get that framed out.  This will allow much easier access to the roof.  Our roofing materials arrived and look good!  So, we set to work getting the roof on!  Continue reading →

Breathing may be a necessity of living beings, but even an inanimate house needs to breathe.  Moisture control in any house is really important, but this is especially true in a tiny house with the wet-breathed inhabitants and their boiling cook pots spewing moisture into the small space.  So, you need some air flow to vent that moisture and dry things out. Continue reading →