A Tiny Journey

Finishing siding and adding soffits

Once we got started on the siding, it went quickly!

One of the first new neighbors we met in Vermont was Ken. After that first snowstorm I mentioned a couple of posts ago , Ken and I went...

With the Tiny House now safely in its new home, I was eager to tend to some of the scruffier consequences of the move.

If you've been with me for the last several posts, then it may be hard to believe, but we are finally ready to move ourselves and all our...

For those keeping score, here's where we are at: All our stuff is in a 26' U-Haul parked (and snowed in) in New Hampshire. We are...

With the tiny house safely stowed in Eric's Driveway (you can read about that here ), all we had left to do was... all of the things that...

The epic tale of hauling the Tiny House from Virginia to Vermont. Through preternatural effort and perseverance, and with a comfortable...

I had only two problems left to solve: Find a place to store the Tiny House until we closed on our new home in Vermont. Learn how to pull...

There is quite a story behind how long it has taken me to write this post. Part of that story has to do with the fact that I am now...

In which Jenna walks us through the interior layout of our Tiny House. Several of you have been asking us if we are building our Tiny...

The race to get "dried in" required three more significant steps...

In which I talk about the other house we built, lofts that are actually rafter ties, and a Plummer who is actually a carpenter. At this...

In order to install the final rafters over cantilevered loft section, I needed to frame out the loft and finish the framing on the...

The marking out of rafters is another excellent opportunity to dust off some of the old math skills. Simple rafters like these are a...

During a trip to the lumber yard the other day I was reflecting on the fact that, but for the trailer itself, every single piece of this...

We'll get to Pythagoras in a minute. First, I want to point out that the race is on! Once the first walls go up the whole structure...

Finally, finally, finally, time to put up some walls! It was an exciting day.

With the deck on, it was finally time to put up some walls... well almost time. Two important things had to be done before we started...

Getting the deck on a project like this is really the first exciting achievement. It's the first stage at which you can literally stand...

Because a tiny house uses a trailer as a foundation, and because one hopes to be able to haul that trailer (and therefore the house) at...

With the plywood laid down, it was time to get to the floor joists. But the basic box of the trailer is 20 feet long (adding the hitch...

The fun begins!!

Parts of the building process are just tedious and uninteresting. For me this has included leveling the trailer, and all of the work that...

The trailer is essentially the foundation of a tiny house. As such, it needs to be leveled carefully before the building process can...

Okay, not right away, we’re going to take this slow. But we are going tiny! And because we thought it would be fun to document the...

Tiny house trailers are not the same as utility trailers or trailers designed to haul vehicles. They really are their own thing. A...