Building the Big House
My Worst Tiny House Fear: Being Told I Can’t Legally Live Here
This post is a compilation of excerpts from my weekly letters during the time between December 2, 2012 and January 27, 2013. I’ve been quiet on the blog lately, because the past six weeks have been scary and hard. I am sharing publicly now, because we’ve made it through and everything is okay. Thanks to my weekly letter subscribers, I had a safe place to share these feelings while they were raw. I’m not one to keep you hanging in worry, so I’ll spoil the story now: We were found in violation of the Universal Statewide Building Code because we didn’t get a building permit to build our tiny house. The code in Virginia puts any...
Read MoreHow to Site a Home: Making Way for Our Bigger Tiny House
We’ve lived on our property for one year and one month now, watching the sun go through her seasonal dance through the sky. Being on the north side of our hill, we don’t get as much direct sun as we’d like, so we’ve spent a lot of time considering the best spot to site our bigger tiny house. I am thankful for the time we’ve had to watch the light change through the year. Where should we site the house? Tucking the house in the woods would be lovely, but in summer, we get lots of rain. Being totally shaded would encourage mold and mildew. Moving the house out of the trees and into the open spot right in front of the tiny house, would not only block the tiny...
Read MoreFinalizing Plans for Phase 2: Building our Bigger Tiny House
It’s been almost four years since we decided to embark on this quest to build a mortgage free homestead. We spent a lot of time in the beginning deciding where we wanted to live, and how we wanted to build. We looked at tons of house plans, bought a set, and drew up our own using a very basic computer program. Building for cash is a good thing because it gives us constraint. We can’t build the home we think we need because it would take too long to save. Being determined to stay away from mortgage and debt has been a blessing in many ways. By building “cash on the barrel,” as my fellow tiny houser, Andrew, calls it, we are living with limits. Limits push our...
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