This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape is a cozy log cabin near Mount Assiniboine in British Columbia, Canada. This type of setting has always been my dream for a cabin in the mountains. I don’t need anything big and fancy just something sturdy, warm and well built. A place to get out and enjoy nature, shoot pictures and relax.
What is your tiny house dream? Please share it with everyone via the comment section below. Have a wonderful weekend!
my idea of heaven is in SE Asia(where I now live )somewhere close to a beach far from the city
Hey Robin,
OT, but, in case you get back and see this, would you tell me exactly where you are in SE Asia, please.
I have been thinking of relocating. Is work difficult to find?
Thanks,
Kat
Hi Robin, Where in SE Asia are you?
We visited our tiny dream house last weekend. Beautiful weather, snow covered landscape, cozy and warm inside, nestled in the forest surrounded by mountains. Can’t wait to get back.
Yes, I would still like to feature your get away one of these days, just let me know when you are ready to do so.
Ours too is a work in progress. I have some cool Kitchen features I’m working on but no real completion date. You do such a good job with this blog I’ll leave it up to you when you think the Yonderosa is ready.
Since the dream house is still evolving in dreamland I’m enjoying my “reality shack” on a BC Gulf Island. It’s a 13′ Boler trailer, has a 10×12 deck with covered outdoor kitchen perched above a south facing well treed slope. The deck ends right at the edge of a 12′ dropoff so it feels a bit like being in a tree house. There is a 4×6 wash house with sawdust toilet and I’m setting up a washtub base shower this weekend using a couple of old shower curtans hung from the ceiling and a solar shower bag. I have electricity so there’s a little heater out there and an electric kettle for hot water. I have good neighbours on all sides, friendly but not intrusive, and the closest one lets me use their internet connection. I can get here totally by public transit, ferry and walking in about 4 hours so need no car. I use a rollator since my second knee just succumbed to osteoarthritis and canes don’t work well any more. I can’t carry packs so I load up the rollator and head out at least once or twice a month. I need to design a tougher one, this one is for sidewalks not trails and is noisy as the old red wagon I used to use on childhood expeditions. There are all sorts of plans and projects to putter with that will eventually transform the place into more of a dream home but until then this will do nicely. My son helped me get the trailer onto the lot and a friend helped stain some of the decking but everything else was done by my hands alone which is extremely satisfying.
Unfortunately we succumbed to the pressure to extend our dream home. It used to be a really cute little 8m x 4m two storey cottage that looked like a church in a beautiful garden setting. For many years we proved that you can live very comfortably in a small house. In 1990 it only cost between $Aus15 and 20,000 to build for materials. Kim’s Dad helped me do the frame and brickwork and we did the rest. Lots of second hand materials – bricks, windows, the insulation blanket in the roof etc. Small houses are great!
A place in a seaside village such as Key West or St. Thomas…
The log cabin looks cozy but I think once the novelty wore off I would eventually get pretty tired of the snow and cold.
My dream would be a tree house, although I admit that I would probably eventually get tired of the climb up the stairs or ladder, and the wind caused rocking and creaking also might be annoying after a while.
Maybe it is just as well to enjoy where you are at.
Its a work in progress…
http://kmswoodworks.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/breaking-the-dry-spell-life-at-the-cabin/
My dream small house has a kitchen/living room area, 1 BR and a lavatory separated from the bath. I like the Japanese idea of a bath room that is only for that- bathing. Four very small rooms with the idea of open space but still a very small home.