Month: July 2010

Jay Shafer’s Small House Book and Plans

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My friend and fellow tiny house enthusiast Jay Shafer is featured today on Yahoo’s front page. So if you missed it be sure and check it out. Jay has a fantastic book out called The Small House Book and I would encourage anyone new to tiny houses to purchase the book. … Read more

Tiny House in a Landscape

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This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape is located in Arnissa Greece and is a floating structure. I’m not sure if it is a house or something else but I really like its location and setting. It looks like it would be very pleasant to live there and I really … Read more

House of Fallen Timbers Update

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David Lottes sent me a progress report for The House of Fallen Timbers and I thought you would enjoy seeing his progress. Here is the previous post if you are seeing this for the first time. The walls are half way up now! I’m still on target to get under … 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

Update on the Contemporary Prairie Schooner

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Libby sent me an update on their Contemporary Prairie Schooner and I’ll let Libby tell you about it.

We began construction on our tiny home in March. Now, at the beginning of July, we are living full time in our prairie schooner while we travel cross country. I will be blogging our journey on www.whittleddown.com. Also be sure and read the Grand Tour on our blog that goes more into detail on some of the components of our home.

The schooner has solar electricity, passive solar hot water, a functioning sink, and a camp stove for meal prep. We are using a cooler to refrigerate our food and have a pantry for non-refrigerated items as well. We sleep on a homemade straw mattress and have a handmade couch for lounging. Our cat has an outdoor enclosure for birdwatching.

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Willow Wagon

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Terri Freeman met Ron Dakotah last summer coming down the road with a team of horses and this wagon – the wagon didn’t look like this then.

They fell in love and Terri went and towed the wagon back from South Dakota with Ron and he spent all winter putting those willows on the wagon and refurbishing the inside.

If you will look on their website www.rondakotah.com you will see their story and  pics of the wagon when Ron lived in it, which he did in this wagon and others for the last 20 years while traveling throughout the US. Well, since Terry took him off the road, they need to sell the wagon to buy a 4 horse trailer so they can get themselves to the Southwest and out of Montana. Terri is a western artist www.rustycowboy2.com. Terri just painted the door on the wagon in a little while ago, you can check out the pictures below.

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