Tiny House Blog

Lyle Congdon of Jalopy Cabins sent me an update of their most recent cabin and I thought you would enjoy seeing some pictures of it. I’ll let Lyle tell you more.

A few months ago we were contacted by a gentleman, Pierr, who wanted to view the Ski Hut. After driving up to visit he decided he wanted something a little smaller and the plans for The Santa Fe cabin were put into action. Pierr wanted a tiny house to put on his property south of Santa Fe, NM as he spends a lot of weekends there exploring and hiking. The small cabin would be a place to relax in after a long day of being outside or to escape from less than ideal weather.

Working with Pierr, we built a custom door and cabinet that is about 40 inches tall due to his height (he’s about 6’6?!) – standard vanity height is 32 inches. More importantly we worked with him to ensure that window placement was just right, so he would have great views from the site he had already prepared. Continue Reading »

The “Ski Hut” from Jalopy Cabins

“Makers of unique small cabins, built with reclaimed materials.”

Jalopy Cabins, located in Colorado, is taking a very different approach to building small housing. Our cabins are built from a creative vision by our builder and then assembled with reclaimed materials that we have available. Each cabin will be built using a minimum of 90% reclaimed materials and is truly a one of a kind structure.

In keeping with our mission to use primarily reclaimed, salvaged, or some one else’s mistakes (for example, the windows on this cabin) we were able to build the Ski Hut just the way we envisioned.

The logs came off of the ski resort about 30 minutes from where we live and were from all the clean up they did for the slopes before the season began last year. The hand peeled round logs proved to be a lot more work but really worth the effort it in the end!

All roofing was salvaged from an older house along with the rafters. The door, which was once a bright orange, was salvaged, repainted and given new life with a working door knob.

The windows were someone’s custom order that they didn’t like so we were able to get these nice new windows for a great deal that is also inline with our goal of having energy efficient cabins.

All new insulation was used in the ceiling and floor to also help with energy efficiency. The ceiling has high density foam and the floor has radiant energy insulation.

To see earlier photos of the cabin in progress, check out our website at www.jalopycabins.com or view these two previous posts.

The “Ski Hut” is for sale and we are asking $18,000. Contact Lyle at info@jalopycabins.com or call Wolf at 970-903-3384 and mention the Tiny House Blog post.

We’ve also decided to offer a special of free set-up within a 200 mile radius for this cabin. Set-up would include helping to arrange transportation (though transportation cost is to be paid by buyer of cabin, but we can do all the coordinating), driving to the location and helping unload the cabin onto a prepped site and making sure cabin is level and everything functions as it should. Valued at $800.00.

I’m so happy to see the Tiny House Forum getting some action lately. I also wanted to let you know that Michael Janzen fixed the photo upload and you can now upload your photos.

One of the exciting things about the forum is the community that can be built up and there is a small group in Colorado testing its power right now. The group has been communicating via the forum and they have set up a Tiny House Meet Up for the 16th of this month. Here is the announcement if you are in the area and wish to go. Gypsycoach will be there, unfortunately Ann from Protohaus can’t make it this time. It looks like a fun meet!

Tiny Haus BBQ

• Saturday Oct. 16th, 4 p.m.
• at The Hamilton, Colfax and Humboldt, Denver Colorado
• Street parking available – do NOT park in lot across street, you’ll get towed

RSVP via gmail to grayshifter

This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape was sent to me by Nederland and is a picture taken very recently in Colorado. I’ll let Nederland tell you about it.

This is a tiny old log cabin in the town of St. Elmo, Colorado. Pop. 3 during the winter, more in the summer. It was a fine fall day as the aspen were turning in September, 2010.

Lyle Congdon my friend from Jalopy Cabins sent me an update on their latest cabin which I had covered earlier this year.

Without all the snow and rain here in southwest Colorado, Lyle and Wolf at Jalopy Cabins have finally been able to complete their latest cabin, the “Ski Hut.”

If you missed the earlier post here is Jalopy Cabins mission: In keeping with our mission to use primarily reclaimed, salvaged, or some one else’s mistakes (ie the windows on this cabin) we were able to build this new cabin just the way we wanted.

The logs came off of the ski resort about 30 minutes from where we live and were from all the clean up they did for the slopes before the season began last year. The hand peeled round logs were more work but really worth it in the end. Continue Reading »

Alfred the designer and builder of the Little Red Cabin in Colorado is offering a special August Sale to celebrate the end of Summer.

Normally $149.95 the price for the plans for the month of August, 2010. the Sale price will be $99.95 plus your choice of shipping.

Take advantage of this great price today!

14 x 28 Little Red Cabin Plans
392 square foot cabin plus a 198 square foot loft. Two pages 24″ x 36″ each and are drawn 1/4” = 1’. See more pictures of the cabin here.

Sale Over, thanks for looking.