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Deek’s Four Day “Tiny House Summer Camp” Building Workshop In Vermont- July 6-9

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Tiny House Summer Camp Poster

Hey All,

For those who haven’t heard (many, as we haven’t talked/posted on it much), I’m hosting another Relaxshacks.com Tiny House Building Workshop this year, something we’re dubbing “Tiny House Summer Camp,” and for good reason….

Last year’s sold out workshop went very well, and we had great feedback, so we decided to try a FOUR DAY workshop this time, with camping sites and lodging, and MANY guest speakers and demonstrators. I initially only wanted one guest presenter, perhaps two, but this tiny-house-athon has almost become a small living convention of sorts. Well, a convention where we’re only letting in fifteen attendees!

Tiny House Summer Camp Poster

The aim is to keep it small, hands-on, fun, and eclectic. We want you to not only learn about the ins and outs of small space design and construction, but also to actually build a tiny cabin in the woods together. You’ll have the chance to see and stay in a small off-grid log cabin (one Kent featured as a “tiny house in a landscape” last year), my own Vermont Cabin (as seen in both Lloyd Kahn and Mimi Zeiger’s new tiny housing books), The U.B. 30 Treehouse, and we’ll take a field trip or two to The Pine Crest Cabins in Barton, Vermont, a local mom and pop sawmill, and “Uncle Bob’s Place” to check out some thrift-built tiny structures, and more….

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Caleb’s Small Clog Guest House

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by Caleb Clark

What: We built a small house in our Southern Vermont backyard and documented the process, including:

Who: We are not professional carpenters, nor will we be quitting our day jobs. Laura is an elementary school teacher at The Neighborhood Schoolhouse. I’m the director of the educational technology program at Marlboro College Graduate School. I also worked as a carpenter in my youth, and have always been interested in real estate. In November 2010 we bought a house on tiny 1/8th of an acre lot, 1/2 mile from downtown, Brattleboro, Vermont. (200 miles North of NYC).

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Tiny House in a Landscape

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This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape was shared with me by Derek “Deek” Diedricksen of Relaxshacks.com and the Tiny Yellow House videos. Deek and his brother Dustin recently spent some time in this log cabin in Northern Vermont. It is a 20′ x 20′ cabin which is about 400 … Read more

The Fern Forest Treehouse

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In this little side-tour episode, Derek “Deek” Diedricksen of Relaxshacks.com gives us a look at “The Fern Forest Treehouse”, in Northern Vermont- one owned by Harrison Reynolds, and author Louella (Ellie) Bryant. Harrison, a former woodworking teacher, designed this cabin with his son, which has now stood for four years … Read more

Vermont 2011 Yurt Building Workshop

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Bruce Sargent contacted me about a Yurt building workshop he will be holding in Shaftsbury, Vermont this summer. Bruce say: I built two 12′ yurts last summer each, with 12 students, and each, in two days, start to finish and up. I’ll be offering the lessons learned in a workshop this summer. Course details … Read more

Tiny House Workshop with Peter King

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Gwen Powers and her husband completed a Tiny House Workshop with Peter King, which she only knew existed because of the Tiny House Blog. Gwen says the workshop was excellent and has posted about it on her blog. She is letting me repost it here so more people will see how neat Peter’s workshops are.

Guest Post by Gwen Powers:

Back in October, some friends and I decided to head up to Vermont to participate in a Tiny House Workshop, run by Peter King (check out the website – and look for upcoming workshops – here).

I wrote an earlier, much shorter post on this right after the event, but I’m hoping to be able to give a more thorough report in this one. While this may not end up containing more information, memory being the finite thing that it is, it will definitely contain more pictures!

Photos by Gwen Powers, please contact her for permission to use them.

This is Peter King, giving us an intro talk about why he does these workshops. Peter feels strongly that building a place to live is not rocket science. Housing gets expensive and complicated when we decide we “need” extravagant amounts of space, and complicated structural and decorative details. But if we are willing to redefine that need, and pare it down a bit, than being intimately involved in building the most important structure in our lives is well within reach.

Peter claims – and I believe this, after the weekend – that anyone can learn how to build a simple structure. All it involves is basic math, and basic tools, and a few easily learned rules.

The second aspect of his involvement in these workshops is that he feels strongly that housing is just too darn expensive – we should be able to own the house and the land we live on, and not have to loan it from a big corporation.

After this discussion, and after getting a quick summary from each of us – eight participants, including the owner – on why we were there, we got to work.

The first task was framing out one of the walls. The building was 12 by 20, and the two long walls had to go up first. Khumpani (the owner, who is an herbalist who is currently living in an even smaller tiny house on the land) and Peter had finished the foundation earlier in the week, in spite of the miserably cold and persistent rain, so that we could get as much of the main structure done over the weekend.

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Tiny Yellow House #5 – Vermont Cabin

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Deek just sent me a link to his latest Tiny Yellow House vidoe, so I decided to slip it into today’s video day. We head to the green mountains of Vermont, where Deek and his brother have been working on a cabin in the woods for several years. Away from … Read more

Peter King Tiny House Workshop

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Those of you in New England will want to be aware of this workshop coming up offered by Peter King. I discovered this on a website called Vermont Transitions and have put a screen print of the page below. Here are the details: Time: September 15, 2010 at 9am to … Read more

Monkton Vermont Tiny House

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Dale Helms a fine furniture maker from Monkton, Vermont was featured in the Sequel of Stuck in Vermont a feature story on Peter King Tiny House Builder based in Vermont. Dale recently sent me an update on their house and I wanted to share it with you. I’ll turn it … Read more

Sponsor Deek’s Tiny Yellow House Episodes

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Here is a preview clip of a structure Deek (Derek Diedricksen) is now working on, that will travel with him to festivals, and speaking appearances, etc. Its designed to be a mobile, stackable, homeless shelter that doubles as a street vending kiosk. As always, its made with a good deal … Read more

Historic Vermont Tiny Homes – Free

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I just got home from an overnight flight and am quite exhausted. I have lots of catching up to do but had a great vacation. Michael at Tiny House Design just posted a notice about some Historical tiny houses in Vermont that are Free to a Good Home. The only … Read more