And, just when the complexity of decisions was getting overwhelming, we remembered that we were also dealing with choosing windows for a house made to be mobile.
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Windows — how very much I appreciate them, how very little I knew about them. I had no idea there were so many options, and that those options might have a huge variety of exceptions and contingencies.
We saw a glimmer of this unending, but conditional, window options situation Continue reading
Although the clothesline is where it’s at, the dryer can come in handy at times, particularly during the cold or rainy weather. For those times, I’ve never been a big dryer sheet user (just seemed like one more thing to buy and use without much return)… that is, until I moved to a dry, dry, DRY climate. Enough static shocks, too many pairs of underwear stuck to our shirts, and skirts loving up on my legs WAY too much, and I was persuaded. Continue reading
That digital 3-D model of the tiny house I created in Sketchup is great and all, but when you really need to get a feel for your tiny house, you need a real-life model if it Continue reading
I’ve fallen behind! Our progress is moving faster than my blogging. (Not too surprising when my days are packed building the tiny house, working full-time, and also trying to keep up on the everyday to-do’s.)
And so, I now return to you with… a finished tiny house floor! Continue reading
“Each of us in our own way, gotta do something – save your soul, you know.” — Yvon Chouinard (180° South)
Exactly.
A decision made… and another one… and again… and again……. and AGAIN. Because this is a tiny house, every decision we make very obviously affects a number of other elements of the house. Want to move the loft floor down an inch to provide more headroom in the loft? Well, then will the fridge and the water heater below it still fit? Shoot, now the shelf in the kitchen will no longer fit a quart-size ball jar. And, the bookshelf in the living area that runs the length of the wall below the high windows no longer is in line with the loft, but Continue reading
Because: Continue reading
Treehugger. I try hard, but with trunks that big, it ain’t easy…
Yup, I love trees. Love ’em. — Which is why I have no interest in wiping my ass with them. Continue reading
I do not understand, for the life of me, why we don’t make all of our human creations beautiful. Why do we hold such little value to beauty in what we build and develop? Wouldn’t we all prefer to live in a beautiful space as opposed to an ugly one? So, if you gotta build something, make sure it’s aesthetic – yes, even if this costs more. Continue reading
After much deliberation on methods and materials (with much yet to come), we have commenced actual building of our tiny house! Continue reading
If you’re following my blog via email notifications, you’re most likely skipping straight to my posts from the link in the email notification. So, I just wanted to highlight that I put up a background-and-finding-the-ideal page about my tiny house.
Check out the tiny house “why” page.
It’s also got some tantalizing shots of the 3-D model of the Hygge Hale (our tiny house) I’ve created! (Okay, maybe it’s only me that finds the model images tantalizing…)
An offbeat article crossed my path 10, maybe closer to 15, years ago with a photo to steal the heart of the soul – well, to steal my heart of my soul. That image, I can still picture it. A tiny little house — on wheels. Not an RV, but a stick-frame, peaked-roof, tiny-porched miniature house. Small and mobile, but a real house – let me in! Continue reading
The smooth swish of a paddle dipping into and stroking through water is a sound to soothe my soul. Canoeing is an amazing way to relax and reconnect with the world.
In the time before him-and-I-together, my husband inherited a trashed canoe. Continue reading
I am so thankful for the diversity in the world, and this is particularly true when I learn of concepts in other cultures, cultural groundings, that do not exist in my own. What people discover all over this world as each of us and our communities learn to move through life with grace. What a waste to ignore the realizations of those around us.
A few I’ve found a great appreciation for: Continue reading
If ever an ideal life existed, it would include hammock lounging. And, lots of it. In and of itself, it’s amazing – just sitting in the hammock, watching and feeling the world. Birds calling, leaves dancing in the breeze, Continue reading
With six plus months of sun and sun and sun and sun, I have no excuse not to line-dry our laundry. And, I feel good about every load that (just like that sun tea) is using natural-occurring, free, non-polluting, passive heat from the sun Continue reading
For one flash of a moment, if the lens and instruments capture it just right, if we can make the camera eye’s projection match the observation of the human eye, we are left with an image Continue reading
Like I mentioned in my last post, we furnished almost our entire house with second-hand furniture. The only reason all the furniture in our house wasn’t second-hand was because my husband has a penchant for carpentry. That guy loves himself a wood shop. Continue reading
When we moved from Hawai`i to California, the only furniture that moved with us were two small wooden bookshelves that my husband had made while we lived in Hawai`i. So, upon our arrival in California, the house we rented needed to be fully furnished. I have no interest in using or consuming more resources than is necessary in my life, and so much furniture has already been made! Material goods are so prevalent in the United States. So, I took to Continue reading
Wait, seriously all I have to do is put a tea bag in some water in a closed jar and put it in the sun, and when I remember that guy in a few hours he’s made tea?? I love it. Totally love it. I love anything that requires no electricity, gas, oil, etc. to make! Continue reading