Following is a letter from my friend Dee Williams.
Hope you are well and enjoying this October! It is beautiful out! I’m forwarding this to you with the hopes that you might consider posting a notice about it on your blog, or with your tiny house network.
In the past couple of months, my company Portland Alternative Dwellings (PAD) has been working on a new look and focus. We recently reorganized, and now will offer more workshops and consulting services.
Our first ‘Build it Tiny’ workshop is coming up this November 10th. We’ll focus on practical solutions for some of the more challenging little house conundrums: where to place/park your tiny house, code enforcement, insurance, electrical hook-ups, wastewater and (drum roll please…) toilets! The workshop will provide detailed information from local experts, and a great opportunity to meet others in the tiny house community. It will be an awesome opportunity to further flesh out the details for your little house, and to sort through some of the hard-knuckle decisions associated with a tiny house.
In the spring, folks can join us for another workshop: a hands-on, tool wielding weekend workshop focused on building a little house!
Our new website: www.padtinyhouses.com offers more information about PAD and the up-coming workshops.
Hope you are well and enjoying the last bit of summer!
Be well,
Dee
Your PAD homes are some of the most beautiful, well built homes out there in the TRUE tiny home market.
Bravo!
Annie Blair
I am so happy you posted this! I’m moving to Portland in two or three months, so I am sooo glad to know about this! (My dream: a little land and a very tiny house.)
When will workshops be offered on the east coast? Whoever begins to offer them will make a killing, New Yorkers love the tiny house concept and are just itching to learn more but companies have yet to reach a major untapped market…..
A suggestion for another un-tapped market: those of us who have a disability but can and do love to live independently and would benefit from a just-right-for-me-sized tiny/small home.
Thanks for thinking of this possibility too.
Hi Dee – by separate coincidence I’ve run across your tiny house blog and info by two disparate friends – my friend Pamela Berger has a cool blog and she just featured tiny houses — http://www.sweetpeachblog.com — was wondering if you were in one of the photos – anyway thought I would just take a moment to say hello – my parents are considering a little sort of auxillary house (sort of like the safety raft as compared to the mother ship) — possibly for our property in VA – so we’re thinking about options — anyway hope all is going great with you! – Kathryn