Dan Louche from Tiny Home Builders is going to be offering a unique workshop starting in March and I wanted to make sure you all new about it. I’ll let Dan tell you about it below.
Building a tiny house by yourself can be intimidating, especially if you have limited construction knowledge. But imagine if instead of doing it alone, you were part of a community of people with different levels of knowledge and experience working in tandem toward the common goal of building and living in a tiny house. In this community there would be an experienced instructor who was there to guide you and answer all of your questions along the way. This is the idea behind the Tiny House Build Along.
At the end of six months you could be living in your own tiny house. A house that is mortgage free, environmentally sustainable, that you built with your own hands. Beginning on March 1st 2012, I will be building a tiny house, and I invite you to build yours with me.
Participants will get access to an online community where each step of the build process will be broken down and scheduled to allow ample time for completion. Illustrated instructions and videos will be provided for each step so that you understand exactly what needs to be done. There will also be a discussion area where you can post your questions which will be answered by your fellow builders and myself. For each step there will be an opportunity to call in and ask your questions with the instructors answers broadcast live over the web to all participants (these sessions will also be recorded for others in the event someone is not available at the specified call time). My personal number will also be provided for a limited number of immediate answers.
The total cost is $849 and includes your choice of one of the Tiny Home Builders tiny house plans (Tiny Living or Tiny Retirement), the Tiny House Construction Guide, and unlimited access to the Tiny House Build Along online community.
You’ve dreamed of living in a tiny house, if you’ve thought of building your own home, but didn’t know where to start, then this is it! This is your start!
Reserve your spot today for $99.
Learn more at tinyhomebuilders.com/buildalong.
What a great idea! Finally, some coaching! An idea that could support it would be to use meet-up.com or another mechanism to link people working in the same area so they could (if desired) support each other in-person.
I could even see using the coaching as a means for a high-school or voc-tech independent project option.
Go Dan!
I’m not sure if I can commit to the time until next fall, but please repeat the process if it works for you!
Yeah I thought of the idea of local collectives helping each other build. This would help encourage and pool knowledge and help folks like me who are afraid to take on a project they may not be able to actually DO.
Great idea!
Wonderful! I hope that all goes well and you’re still doing this when I get ready to build!
I think I would like to try having a tiny house someday, but then where can you put it? A trailer park seems trashy and lame.
There are several places in Colorado where you can live in a home like this without being in a trailer park where you own your own land-Colorado City is one, Fairplay is another, Dacono and Federal Heights. My park model trailer is in a park called Riverview RV park sitting right on the Big Thompson River – I wish someday people would quit thinking of mobile home parks as being trashy – some are but most aren’t.
We have a tiny house, 20×30, that is not as tiny as some, but we downsized from a 1900sq ft house.
We built it from scratch on our kids property. Getting used to the smallness and what to keep and what to donate was the hardest part of this move into a tiny house.
We are not done yet, but I will post a pic when we are. I do love living small.