Let me start by saying I like comfort despite a relatively high tolerance for misery. In my teens I spent more weekends in a tent, or a hand built “survival shelter” than at home, I have slept wet and cold … Continue reading
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tiny house appliances: water and sanitation
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Currently the majority of tiny homes are built to accept pressurized water hookup from a hose. Simple, but also quite limiting if the house is ever moved for a few days (or longer) to somewhere where there is no pressurized … Continue reading
tiny house appliances: cooling
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We think we’ve done some decent research on tiny house appliances, so here is our first installment on cooling the small abode. Here in DC summers are stifling, so we need real air-conditioning (not evaporative coolers). Compared to a (far … Continue reading
tony the tiny house builder in DC: week in review
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I’ve been lagging on blog posts because the build hasn’t felt real yet. I am hiring Tony – a friend from my Oregon days – to build mine for me, and he just arrived in DC this week. So now, … Continue reading
too many bikes for one tiny house
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I love bikes. For twenty years of my life the bicycle has been one of my primary forms of transportation: in the Marshall Islands where there were no personal vehicles, in Seattle through many rainy commutes, in Minnesota winters while … Continue reading
tiny house kitchen design
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Poor design is truly not at the top of the world’s problems, but an ill-designed kitchen is a daily (and often costly) insult, and may detract from one of life’s great joys: cooking together and eating. When considering the tiny … Continue reading
typology of tiny house enthusiasts
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In her article titled “I Can’t Stop Looking at Photos of Absurdly Tiny Homes” on the Atlantic Cities blog yesterday, Emily Badger questions why we tiny house enthusiasts are so obsessed. “There is something oddly alluring about smartly designed but … Continue reading
lee’s tiny house design
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I recently bought the framing plans for the Tumbleweed Fencl after attending Tumbleweed’s tiny house workshop here in DC this past summer. I plan on doing my interior differently than the Fencl and am still in the design phase of … Continue reading
