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"Mama Said There'll Be Days Like This"

9/28/2014

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Just after I began to build tiny, I came across an interview with Gabriella Morrison that really resonated for me and I saved it. You can read it here. The part that struck me was where she talks about the doubts that she and her husband experienced while coming to the decision to build their tiny home. Family and friends doubted them and they doubted themselves.

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Odds and Ends of Tiny House Progress

9/11/2014

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The walls keep going up! The insides are made of "V joint" tongue and groove paneling and I really like seeing all the color variations in the wood. As I was painting finish on them today, it occurred to me that I haven't mentioned why it is that the interior walls are going up already, when there is nary a trace of plumbing or wiring in place behind them.

Well, I've chosen to put both plumbing and wiring inside the living space, rather than hiding them inside the walls as is usually done. Some people (not mentioning any names!) have told me this is an odd decision.  Oh well. Some would say a tiny house is an odd decision too, so I suppose I am  irredeemably odd.
TURN ON IMAGES to see interior pine paneling wall.
Interior corner wall.

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Visualizing the Space

9/7/2014

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TURN ON IMAGES to see unfinished interior of tiny house with curved roof
We've started to accumulate a lot of junk inside the tiny house--odds and ends and important boxes of stuff that we don't want to leave strewn around the warehouse space where we are guests.
The other day, just for fun, I arranged some of that junk to approximate the projected layout of my caravan. That empty space against the far wall is  

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Pardon Me While I Wax Philosophical

9/3/2014

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TURN ON IMAGES to see tiny caravan house with curved roof being built
Although it was offered at my junior high, I never took shop. In fact, I probably never considered the possibility of taking shop for more than 30 seconds. I was only dimly aware of it at the time, but there was an unspoken assumption that kids with an aptitude for academics didn't take shop unless they were really slacking off. Shop was for boys who

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