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 square feet. This cabin resides at the very end of the dirt road that Deek’s land is on.
After night two Deek and Dustin awoke to find it snowing, and proceeded to pack their stuff up quickly as they had to move their car up a hill before it was snowed in as they did not have four wheel drive.
So we luck out and have two pictures that look like two different seasons. Thanks Deek for sharing your adventure with us. You can also view a couple more pictures of the interior on Deek’s blog.
This is a great looking little cabin. And actually, 20 feet times 20 feet isn’t “about 400 square feet,” it’s exactly 400 square feet. 🙂
Those of us who live year round in Northern Vermont wouldn’t think of driving anything other than four wheel drive vehicles. Even in summer those who live on class four non-town-maintained roads rely on four wheel drive.
I’m completely unfamiliar with Vermont roads. I did a quick Google search, and see that these “Class 4” roads must be public roads; are they basically just dead end type extended driveways to get to property in remote areas? I grew up in rural Iowa on a large farm, and I’ve seen some unmaintained stretches of gravel road, but they’re very few and very far between. The stretches of road like this that I’ve come across have only been a mile in length – in the flat parts of Iowa the “blocks” are one mile in length with 16, 40 acre parcels contained within. No one lives on these unmaintained stretches of road though; they’re only used for access to fields. Do these roads in Vermont only exist for access to remote properties? Or are the government workers responsible for maintaining roads just lazy and don’t want to have to deal with them? Ha.
I don’t live in Vermont, and live somewhat close to a city (Boston)- so for me to invest in 4WD down here would be somewhat pointless- but yes, if I lived full time in Vermont year round, I’d most definitely need it! We were merely visiting/staying at a friend’s camp (in the lot adjacent to my own- which is home to a seasonal, off-grid camp/cabin I built- not quite finished yet).
MORE photos (interiors) can be found here…
http://relaxshacks.blogspot.com/2011/11/log-cabin-in-northern-vermont-20-by-20.html
Thanks for sharing Kent
-Deek
Beautiful Cabin…I love it and the Red Door! What does it look like inside? Beautiful, beautiful….
Do solar panels work when they’re snow covered? LOL. Love this little place. On my way now to his blog to see the inside.
Lots of tiny house, very little landscape. This seems to be the norm lately.
I am always looking for new landscape photos, if you have some please send them my way.
Thanks for sharing. I loved the photos.
I live in the hi desert north of L.A.(calif),thank God.have 6 panels(total 90 watts).if you clean snow off(and have full sun)panels will work…if it’s cloudy,no go at all. especially with short days of winter.winter soltice ends Dec 20 and then sun will start rising up again to its’… fullest in June..yayyyyy