Last week, one of my downsizing hero’s, Dee Williams, wrote an excellent article about building her tiny home for YES! Magazine:
Three years ago, I decided to downsize. I sold my big house (which I loved!), got rid of all my stuff, and built an itty-bitty eco-friendly cottage. When I finished building, I slid my little house into a friend’s backyard. This isn’t as odd as it sounds. My house actually “fits” in the backyard. It looks like a tiny cabin, or a tree house. It’s also super-small and built on wheels.
My house offers 84 square-feet of living space and cost about $10,000 to build. It was built for the highway, but—honestly—it isn’t anything like a travel trailer. It doesn’t contain any space-age plastics or fake wood. Instead, it’s the real deal: knotty pine, cedar, and fir.
I made the house to be as simple and natural as possible. I minimized my construction footprint by using a bunch of “green” building techniques, including:
Click here to read the full article.
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Hello:
I just recently found about tinny homes, I had being looking something for me alone, and everything is so big in the world of housing. I had lost faith and resign my self to stay put where I am at this moment. What is the problem? I love books, someone tell me I was addicted de them, is true. I can live one year with five shirts, my four or five uniforms, tree jeans, three or four shoes and I can be so happy about it. But I can’t live whit out me books. That is a no no… I’m thinking taking a project like this one for me, and I want it to be all green. I live in Puerto Rico, so no heating problem there. I enjoy pretty much the different videos where you show you little house. But I want more ideas of how make it GREEN. What books you recommend I read before staring.
Thanks
Have a good day.
C.C.