The tiny house journey began for Heidi and I as early as 2010 when I have found a journal entry suggesting that tiny house living would coincide perfectly with an effort to live minimally, plus with the potential of community. The latter hasn’t happened yet (council acceptance still being the barrier) but we have turned our dreams into reality and have achieved at one time what seemed like too much of a mountain to climb.
As a big fan of Jay Shearer‘s tiny house experiment (Jay is considered the granddaddy of the modern tiny house movement), I imagined that this would be a great way to realise our downsizing dream. Turns out, we did get there! In 2019, we got started on building and living tiny and by 2022 we were living in our big tiny house on wheels (huge by Jay’s standards but tiny by society’s!).
This blog is largely dedicated to the journey as it started in 2019 and covers the building process (along with a YouTube documentary series of the process) through to the ongoing writing and video journey as we look at helpful tiny hints and tips, upgrades and alterations as we find what works best for us, interviews with other tiny folks, thoughts on tiny living and much more! A re-jig of the YouTube channel is underway and I’ll keep you posted once that is live.
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TINY HOUSE JOURNEYING
The Lift Bed: Four Years Later, Here’s the Verdict.
If you’ve followed the build, you know the bed goes up into the ceiling. What you probably don’t know is the myriad of optimistic/terrible ideas I went through before landing on the one that actually worked. Attempt one…
My First Client Build — Done…but there’s a catch.
I’m Glad This Build Is (mostly) Done. I’m Proud of It! Building for a client is a different beast to building for yourself. With my own tiny house, the frustrations were mine to deal with on my own…
Building a tiny house for someone else
Ahoy! Long time between posts and apologies for the radio-silence. Shortly before completing the majority of our P2 guesthouse space and having guests stay in succession, I was contacted by the daughter of an elderly friend of Heidi’s…
