Building the Tiny House
Losing Everything–Starting Over with a Tiny House
Almost four years ago, after the untimely demise of our start-up business, we came to a place of rebirth. Previously, we had moved closer to Mama’s family in Florida in order to get married and start our family. After purchasing and old wood framed two-bedroom home in a blue collar town, we embarked on an odyssey of home renovation and family building. Through our efforts at reconstructing the house, we attained fantastic equity in the burgeoning real estate market. Costs were kept down by my scavenging the construction sites I worked on and my willingness to do all the work myself. Before the real estate bubble burst, we transferred the equity in our home into the...
Read MoreCreated From Excess
We constructed our home with things people didn’t need. I am grateful to the internet and craigslist for creating a revolutionary way to connect people who need things with people who want to get rid of them. Everything we need is already made and someone wants to get rid of it. Our mission when building the tiny house was to buy as little “virgin materials” as possible. We stayed focused on buying what had already been used once. This commitment has produced a homey home, a place with stories. Rolling into Home Depot to load up on materials is much less charming than meeting a stranger through craigslist and helping to make use of their excess. There is more...
Read MoreTour the Kids’ Tiny Loft
Here our darling daughter shares with you her perspective of Tinyland. She mentions a tour of their secret hideouts, but that video needs another take. Oh the suspense. . . Proud Mama has to say, she’s got something! Sister says: “I felt very sophisticated doing this video. Mommy thinks it’s funny.” Enjoy your week! ox src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Nb9M8sK67LU?version=3&hl=en_US” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”560″ height=”345″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”> Share...
Read MoreDigging Rocks
There is a growing pile of rocks in the garden. Each one of them dug from beneath the surface with a shovel and garden fork. Backs throb, forearms ache. The back of my right knee sore from the repetitive motion: stick shovel in, jump on it with right foot, pull back, repeatedly stab the chunk of loose earth to find rocks, bend over, pick up rocks and toss. We toss the rocks into a milk crate and carry cratefuls to the pile over and over and over. We are about three-quarters of the way across the garden as fall approaches. It feels like so much work, but in reality Papa has done most of it. His ability to persevere and make all of our big ideas come to life has been an...
Read MoreTour Our Home
So many thoughts about what it means to us to live this way. Just cleaning for the tour gave me a flashback to my former life. I am thankful to have grown into this simple, organized life. It hasn’t always been this way. More on that later. . . I did three different videos and decided not to post them. I would like to get someone to video the tour, so I’m not both tour guide and camera person–makes for a shaky ride. I’ll work on that. For now, I’ve taken some pictures to share the tiny house with you. Wishing you a week of simple pleasures. ox Yo
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