Guest Post by FORREST Scott Strenzel The better half comes in the rec room of your 1800 square foot home and says, honey lets go live TINY, so we can have more disposable income and more time together and or with the kids etc. ?I did that to hopefully gather … Read more
Well, it took about four months of solid work to build this house but it’s done. We pulled permits and passed the final inspection last Monday. Now waiting for Duke electric to hook up cables and install the meter and I can check all systems and the well water connections … Read more
—By Brian Platt Looking back on it, I might as well have said “let’s build a rocket ship” I was so out of my element. But now, three months later and after gaining experience with log tongs, ridge poles, and reimagined “non-permitted structure” foundations, I’d compare it more to building … Read more
Hi Kent, I found your blog long about 2012 after I added up what I’d spent in rent over the past 20 years (somewhere in the neighbourhood of $194,000.) Determined to live a life I love, I’d left my soulless corporate job, and started painting again. But the high cost … Read more
As can be expected, our little family’s choice to live tiny generates a lot of buzz and tons of questions. Why did you decide to do this? How do you survive with two kids in such a small space? Are you going stir crazy in the winter months? The most … Read more
Since downsizing from 2000 square feet to under 200, we have hosted several visitors. However, the occasional passerby who wants to come in and “oooohhh” and “ahhhhh” at how we survive on so little is much different than housing overnight guests. This weekend we hosted our sister and brother-in-law and … Read more
I sat in the recliner covered in spit up, nursing our two week old daughter while our son (who has multiple behavioral diagnosis) ran laps in the living room. I had cleaned up the same messes no less than twice that morning. I had been up four times in the … Read more
Another horrible disaster has devastated a part of our nation. After the floods of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria we now have windblown wildfires destroying parts of Northern and Southern California. These occurrences can be difficult to avoid in some places, but having to face them head on or see … Read more
Las Vegas has been heavy on my heart, and the hearts of many of you readers, the past two weeks. I have several tiny houser friends there and am beyond grateful that none of them were hurt. The senseless loss of life and brutal violence that occurred is utterly devastating. … Read more
As of a few weeks ago my husband and I are officially tiny house dwellers! As a chronic hoarder and lover of “stuff” you might be wondering how this came to be? At the beginning of the summer we decided we wanted a a big change. Our two bed Washington … Read more
I purchased this 1982 Chevrolet, 66 passenger school bus on craigslist for $1,000. It ran well enough to get me home. The gas engine and manual transmission was appealing to me since there is very little to go wrong with it mechanically now that everything is fixed. It was really … Read more
