Little Shaver House Update

Crystal Shaver contacted me with an update on the Little Shaver House post I did a while back, I thought you would enjoy an update on how things are going for them.

Crystal says the progress has been slow on the house due to the weather! A “winter storm” moved in a couple of days ago, beginning with above freezing temperatures and rain, progressing to freezing rain and then a blizzard of snow in less than 24 hours!

There is probably about a foot of snow outside! Anyways, we have some new pics for you. Ron went out and took them in the blizzard and his hands came back so red and cold.

We found a place to park our tiny house. We are going to stay in our house until mid February. The farm we are moving to, north of Eudora in Linwood, KS, belongs to a friend of Ron’s parents. She has a basement apartment that we are going to live in until we finish the tiny house (hopefully spring). We will be moving the tiny house unfinished to her land. She also rents some of her acreage to farmers who own cows, pigs, sheep, and chicken. It is going to be the perfect little spot on the prairie for our house! Luna is going to grow so much being in this environment.

As far as construction goes, we have to pressure test the plumbing so that we can finish the walls where the connections are. We installed the water heater and the water tank just before the weather turned cold. However, there were a couple of really cold days where my dad and Ron still worked….I, on the other hand, “had” to stay inside with the baby! We still have to paint the trim on the outside and put a final coat of green. We also need to paint the inside and do the flooring. Oh the punch list gets longer every time we think about it…

To keep up to date with the Shavers be sure and follow their blog called the Tiny House on the Prairie.