I have to get something off my chest.  It’s been a big downer throughout the process of Hygge Hale’s build, and that can weigh heavily.

I’m continuously surprised by how Continue reading →

I know I haven’t posted on this blog in years now.  There have been some difficulties and hurdles in the past few years.  And, I realized I needed to downsize my task list (along with working on downsizing my house 🙂 ). Continue reading →

We decided next to work on the cabinet that will be at the head of our bed in the main loft.  Having this in place would help prevent us from bumping the log lights.  And, it would be Continue reading →

We still have one last electrical project to work through on the tiny house.  Intermittently, we’ve continued to work on figuring out our last type of lighting.  Along with our log lights and box lights, Continue reading →

A tiny step, but we finally got the plywood enclosing our wheel wells in the house painted white to match the walls, and finished with a couple coats of Polycrylic.  This isn’t a big deal Continue reading →

Eli was all sorts of jealous of the new streamlined, quiet ear muffs I had purchased a few months ago, so I went online to get him a pair, too.  When I looked up the Pro For Sho ear muffs again, Continue reading →

Doing the ceiling trim was an exercise in trigonometry.

The trim is installed where the ceiling meets the walls providing a nice clean aesthetic at those transitions.  Simple 90-degree and 45-degree cuts if your room is a box.  But, our ceiling is angled as it’s installed direct to the rafters and mimics the roof pitch.  That meant lots of angles to figure out Continue reading →

Being environmentally conscious folk, we’ve been taking measures to decrease the amount of waste generated from our build.  Among other strategies, this can mean Continue reading →

It was time to spruce up the interior just a bit more.  With our electrical mostly completed, I wanted to get some cover plates on all the switches and outlets.  Along with providing safety by having the wires covered and electrical boxes enclosed, putting on the cover plates Continue reading →

Let’s keep this tiny house real.  There are going to be things I’m definitely not excited about having to be miniaturized in a tiny house: Continue reading →

With our spectacular log lights (if we do say so ourselves) as motivation, it was back to work on the box lights.

These took a bit more prototyping and processing than the log lights did.  Despite the single blog post about them, the creation of these bad boys extended over quite a bit of time and progress on the build.  These words and images don’t convey nearly enough the brain cells, retries, setbacks, googling, curses, sharp words, and persistence devoured and projected into the world from this process… Continue reading →

With the ceiling finished, we wanted to make a little more headway on making it look nice, so wanted to install the trim piece along the ceiling ridge and also all the nice pieces around the roof window.  Really, there were three more ceiling board pieces that had to be installed next to the roof window, so we weren’t quite finished on the ceiling Continue reading →

As Eli was working on our homemade light fixtures, I was prepping (sanding, sealing, sanding, sealing, sanding, sealing) the remainder of the boards to finish up our ceiling.  Once I had all the rest of the boards ready to go, and we’d gotten our bedroom log lights installed, Continue reading →

While I continued sanding and sealing the final boards for the ceiling, Eli jumped on working on our homemade light fixtures (astute folks will have noted a sneak peak prototype in the final picture on my last blog post).  After seeing some really cool custom light designs on the internet, Eli and I worked out Continue reading →

No longer having the help of my parents, progress on the rest of the ceiling boards went a bit slower.  Luckily, though, my parents had helped us prep so many boards we had a good stock to keep us going.  I really enjoyed Continue reading →

While Eli and my dad were manning the installation of our wool ceiling insulation, my mom and I were prepping the boards that would cover the insulation and finish our ceiling.  We used the same boards for the ceiling Continue reading →

Well, as progression on the build has continued, so has progression of the seasons.  Here’s the tiny house yard in the Continue reading →

Entropy.  I guess you know it’s taking you some time to complete your build when in the middle of construction, you’re already having to start on the maintenance of your tiny house.

I noticed that the outside trim around our windows Continue reading →

Now back to getting the rest of those wall boards installed!  We just kept on trucking with dry fitting, trimming, gluing, and nailing.  Our interior walls are getting higher and higher!

As we got to the last boards below the lofts Continue reading →

Gotta make sure in the midst of this build we’re still eatin’ good!  Along with working on the tiny house on the weekends, we also squeezed in Continue reading →