tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43672884414294574912024-03-05T12:13:15.682-08:00Small Home. Big Life.sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-88610071944562586132013-10-16T08:49:00.002-07:002013-10-16T09:52:31.102-07:00Read All About It!<a href="http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2013/10/living_large_in_a_small_space.html" target="_blank">http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2013/10/living_large_in_a_small_space.html</a><br />
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Here is an article about me and my tiny house. The photographer got some really good shots. Can't express enough how much I appreciate everyone's support throughout this whole process. I will be starting other projects and will keep posting about how to live a BIG LIFE right here! So check back once and awhile!<br />
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Bensgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-49751994115334371262013-07-26T09:13:00.002-07:002013-07-26T09:13:41.130-07:00So Close!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The house is very close to being finished. I am getting down to the fine detail point and also waiting for some things to come in the mail. My roll of wallpaper finally came in today! Turns out my neighbors had it. I had to special order that wallpaper. I had bought one roll a few years ago and completed one wall with it. Turns out this particular wallpaper has been discontinued and one Lowes in Dallas had 5 rolls left! I got really lucky. So when I get that up the house will really be looking complete. But here are a bunch of random projects I have been working on for a few months. Enjoy!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am mostly finished with the back but still have some trim pieces I have to have custom made. Got the windows to the power closet painted but still need to stamp fluer de lis on the to window panes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The couch/ottomans/bed/storage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This bench/temporary tv stand use to be a tall night stand that I turned on its side and made this funky little thing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Upholstered couch/ottomans/bed. Underneath the cushions some panels flip out at the feet and at the head to lengthen for sleeping. Or you can split it in two and put a table in between for dining.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shot from front door.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the top step of the stairs that doubles as a chair for the floating desk/office. I finally upholstered it from a pillow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stairs and chair. The pole supports the floating desk.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closet space. Dirty clothes hamper.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New doors for closet open.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closet doors closed. Made from whitewood and straw beach matts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hamper closed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made wire baskets out of chicken wire to hold my fruits and veggies for juicing. Unfortunately I dropped my juicer and broke it :(</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New cabinet door made out of whitewood and straw beach matts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bookcases and shelf over the door. Uncompleted left wall now ready for that wallpaper. It's going to look just like the right wall. Got the idea from gypsy wagon's interior walls and ceilings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The widest shot I could get from the porch at night.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My new toilet! Thetford portable toilet. It uses a biodegradable liquid to break down solids into liquid form. I then built a solar evaporative septic system. So the liquids just evaporate and never get into the ground. Works great no smell! Also has a battery powered flushing system. No more sawdust bucket toilet! Hallelujah!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miss Rebecca Posey hemmed my curtains for me! It looks so much nicer and feels more secure and private at night. Thanks Rebecca!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trimmed up more around the sink and added this little display shelf. I'm thinking candles or something.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Added some oak underneath the sink and an open shelf on the left between the sink and the file cabinet. More to be done with all that.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All lights off except the rear light at the end of the hall.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sammy found yet another spot to sleep. The bathroom sink. Awe :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sammy looking like the cool dude he is!</td></tr>
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More to come! I will finally be done soon but there are many more projects after the house is finished to get started with. Outdoor deck, firepit, some fencing, outdoor bathtub, cob oven, methane digester, clearing land, tilling and planting the farm for fall, new chickens, greenhouse made from old boat for seed starting, generator and battery backup system, and much much more. And it will all be documented right here!!<br />
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Wish me luck!sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-56333047327176823382013-06-16T08:03:00.001-07:002013-06-16T18:57:06.227-07:00The Things I Have Learned From my Father<br />
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The title should be what hasn't my father taught me! I have learned so much from him that I didn't
even realize the amount and wealth of information and know how I have
accumulated from him. That is until this past year of building my house. Every cut I make, every time I measure
something, every time I do something wrong and think about not redoing it…I can
hear him say, ‘Make sure you account for the thickness of the blade before you
cut’ or ‘Nope, we didn't do it right we have to rip it out and do it again.’
And I would always be thinking in my head, ‘Oh come on dad it looks fine.’ But
when he spoke those words to me many years ago I didn't have my head in the
game. I just wanted to do something else. Probably play my guitar or watch TV
or something. Not realizing at the time that he was trying to give me this knowledge.
Though I was listening and helping him with his projects I wasn't appreciating
the fact that he was trying to pass down the knowledge and experience he had
learned from his father, in essence, his DNA. But somehow that DNA got stuck in
me and laid dormant in me all these years until I realized I needed it more
than ever. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The biggest thing I have learned from my father is work
ethic. How to work efficiently by anticipating the next move or three moves of
the project or what tools would be needed to see a project through from start
to finish. How to be a good helper and know what wrench or screwdriver he would
need next. I knew I had done well working with him that day if he said I was a
good helper. And it did make me feel good when he said that. It made the whole day
of working NONstop seem worth it somehow. :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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All those times I can remember him saying come watch me or
help me change these brakes or change the oil, or build these cabinets,
pressure wash the deck, put in this toilet, or whatever. HE taught me how to
build this house. As tiny as it may be, I assure you, it is a monumental task.
Every cut made, hole drilled, and chalk line popped, I assure you, my father had
his hand in creating this home. It is only through my father’s eyes that I am
able to see. Through his vision I have grown into a capable man with the
ability to dream, plan, design, and execute that dream into a reality. And for
that I am eternally grateful and in your debt. So I say to you, on this day, I
love you and happy father’s day!<o:p></o:p></div>
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P.S.- Contrary to what many may believe you can’t learn everything
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sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-88946524378793809752013-05-07T15:49:00.000-07:002013-05-07T15:49:01.422-07:00Tiny house update VideoHere is a video of what I have completed so far on the interior of the house. This is the first video uploaded for my house. I am about 85% complete and am taking my time, letting the ides flow, and trying to build a unique tiny house that looks like no one else's. I admire anyone that builds a tiny house but when everyone starts using the same plans from a respectable tiny house company, everyone's houses start looking the same. I don't want the cookie cutter tiny house...I want one that is unique and my own. Enjoy the video!<br />
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It has been a busy two months since my last post. I got a lot done and am nearing completion. Since I did not use plans to build my house I sometimes just sit back and look at what I have accomplished so far and contemplate the next move. At those moments I always am given a new perspective or creative idea. Probably the biggest epiphany was having three different levels in the house. I was in a cafe/gas station the other day eating a sandwich and I noticed that they had these cool tables built with 1x2's. They were about bar level but the 1x2's trailed up the wall. You'll get the idea when you see the desk I built in the pics below. The middle level of the house which sits at the top of the stairs and just under the loft, is the 'office.' I kind of think of it as a floating desk halfway from the floor and the ceiling. The top step of the stairs I made a little bigger to act as the office chair and in fact I am sitting there right now typing this. It is very comfortable and just a perfect place to sit and do what I do. It also acts as the brain of the house or the spot where the technology is delivered throughout the house. So from my computer in the office I can send video either to the TV in the loft or to the TV in the great room downstairs. It is just the perfect solution to get a work space that is not cluttering the great room downstairs. If you are familiar with cube tiny houses then you will have an idea of having the different levels. But enjoy the new pics!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got the fridge boxed in at the bottom of the stairs. It will also fit snug when I build the couch on the other side of it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the a/c vent in the loft. There is a pipe coming from the window unit downstairs to help cool the loft faster.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Got the TV in the loft and boxed in. Very comfy up there at night watching a movie! I think the TV only uses about 45 watts so it will work good with solar.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was given a bunch of pieces of metal and I made a headboard out of it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The window is actually an escape hatch for an RV. I need a way to escape if there is a fire. The walls in the loft are covered with straw beach mats. It makes the loft very inviting and cozy :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This wall was finally completed with the wainscoting and textured wallpaper and pine trim with fluer de lis crown moulding. It is going to eventually be painted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the desk at the top of the stairs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen counter tops made from reclaimed oak flooring and an antique coffee table. I made multiple levels because the table pulls out so three people can sit and have dinner!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had this wood cutout of my last name. I think my grandfather probably made it because it was always on my grandmothers organ. I thought it be a nice final detail for the counter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This spot is actually above the shower. It is basically my nightstand and house fan. I have a remote for the fan so it makes it easy to turn on and off. On the other side of the fan I encased with the 1x2's to act as a vent so you don't see an ugly tower fan from downstairs. The top of the nightstand is just pieces of vinyl flooring that someone gave me and the wall is straw beach mat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This pic was taken with a new app from Android called Photaf. It is a panoramic picture app and is free! So this is two pics sandwiched together. This IS as comfy as it looks! As you can see the cat (Sammy) is enjoying his nap up there! In the back right corner of the pic you can notice the reading light I installed. There is also one on the other side of the bed. And the board on the left next to the escape hatch with the circle in it is actually the light switch cover. I don't like ugly plastic light or plug covers. So I made my own!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a good shot of the desk and vent for the fan and loft. The white shelves to the right are not finished. I still haven't decided how I want to trim it in. And keep in mind all of this is going to be painted or stained in some way.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the kitchen counter again but with the table slid out. Basically, I just bought some drawer hardware and attached it to the bottom of the table and the top of the filing cabinet. The wall behind the kitchen is not finished. The backsplash that will be behind the counter will also be made from reclaimed oak.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See how the desk tapers up the wall and gradually the 1x2's get a little further apart.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trails all the way to the top of the ceiling. I think it turned out well. I think I am going to put a nice dark stain on it.</td></tr>
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I am getting real close to finishing but I want to take my time and do it right. If I had gone with the plans I had originally drawn up I would probably be done by now. But I keep having these little new ideas that I am really enjoying imagining and creating as I go. To me it's more like I am a painter and my canvas gets filled up by sitting back and observing, imagining, and eventually creating the picture I see in my head. Except the canvas is my house and I create what I dream up. It has been a real pleasure and a real world education for me. Please keep reading for more updates in the future!</div>
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It has been since the end of September since my last post and wanted to update my blog but things just get in the way sometimes...as does procrastination. On those days of procrastinating I try to remember this: "I will do one thing today! What will that one 'thing' be?" Could be putting in one board or it could be an entire project that takes all day. I just try to make a list and hopefully I will complete that task for the day. It makes finishing the house more manageable. But here is a list of what I have done in the past few months: Flash and batt insulation in the ceiling, metal ceiling, oak vaults, wall underlayment, wall insulation, some kitchen installations, wood trimming for loft, shelves for mason jars, closet and sock drawer, ceiling/loft shelf for the shower, last step on the loft stairs, bathroom/under loft door, stove pedestal, porch screen doors, rain gutter, acquired some reclaimed aluminum scraps, and I continue to dwindle down my belongings into trash, goodwill/give to friends, or keep.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">R13 wall insulation. Don't buy the pink stuff, it stinks! It took a week or two till the smell went away. Buy the white.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bathroom floor. Reclaimed oak.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mostly done ceiling underlayment.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oak on the vaults.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corrugated ceiling going up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picked up this little potbelly stove for $75 at a local antique shop. Just needs the rust to be taken off and need to buy stove pipes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">under loft/ bathroom door made out of two reclaimed windows. The door has double duty, it can close off just the bathroom or it can completely close off the entire space under the loft to expand the bathroom to have more room to move around with complete privacy. Eventually I will put mirrors in the window panes to reflect light to give the idea of more space and for privacy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pointy ends of the oak vaults are trimmed with metal. I still haven't finished trimming it up completely.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pedestal built for the outdoor stove/oven/grill. Now I don't have to bend down anymore to cook!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two kitchen cabinets installed on back of the shower. Also my dad gave me this vintage metal file cabinet. perfect for utensils and miscellaneous items. Either going to put a butcher block counter top or stainless steel. The little basket hanging down is going to be the sink light.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My clothes have somewhere to hang!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The all important acoustic guitar amp installed under the stairs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final step on stairs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closet-clothes hanging, drawer, and dirty clothes basket. Don't worry it's not done yet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shelves for mason jars. Reclaimed cypress.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trimmed up loft. Reclaimed wood from an art cargo box. Got it free from an art gallery. There was about $100 of good wood on those things. Art galleries are great places to find unwanted cargo boxes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Chair" at the top of the stairs! I made the last step of the stairs bigger than the rest so it could also be a chair. There will be a fold down desk and a drawer under the chair to hold supplies and a cup holder. This is going to be my 'office'. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top of the shower is also a shelf to put things on in the loft.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top of shower from the inside.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reclaimed wood to trim up the top of the shelves. I think I am going to paint all of this brown.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The top of the shower and shelf is also a perfect spot to put a fan to help circulate the air. When the heat is on it rises and doesn't circulate well throughout the house fast enough. The fan takes that hot air from the loft and gets it to me very quickly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I tried to get the best interior shot I could of most of the inside but I need to get a wide angle lens for my camera. Sorry some pics are sideways but I cannot find an edit feature on this blog to rotate the pics.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Metal pieces in the center of the shelves came out of the filing cabinet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally got my galvalume gutter custom made. It made a tremendous difference. The rain was hitting the edge of my porch and splashing back towards the door. The porch was constantly wet. And when the rain didn't stop for three weeks straight I had to go get this gutter. Turned out nice! I still need the downspout.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First screen door up. This will be an additional defense on the rain.</td></tr>
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I didn't go into incredible detail about every single process this time. There was just too much. So if anyone has a question feel free to ask away! I hope that I can get a lot of work done in the next few months. I would love to be done by March. Fingers crossed!<div>
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It has been awhile since my last post but a lot has happened and I have lots of pictures for you to enjoy. Since my last post I have gotten more done on the power closet, ran some plugs and switches, added the breaker box, installed the a/c, the shower is installed, on demand hot water heater, stairs inside, loft installed, cooking solved, oak floors in(mostly), fridge, internet and TV solved, temporary pallet stairs(outside), got a cat, and oh yeah, we had a hurricane named Issac!! Plus I have had tremendous help from friends that gave me lumber, random things like windows, and loans of much needed power tools!</div>
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The biggest challenge was trying to figure out how to live in this house while still finishing everything and how to power everything with a 15 amp extension cord tethered to my friend Keith's house. I won't technically be off the grid yet but I am just barely dangling on here people! The main thing to get working before I moved in was the a/c. This is south Louisiana, and it will be above 90 probably till November. But who knows we may actually have a fall this year. We had a few nights in September that got in the 60s! But the a/c is 6 amps so next was to get a light(milli amps) and a fridge(4 amps). So that's 10 amps + milliamps. Plus I have the laptop, a radio, speakers, and the TV antenna has a power source to increase the signal a little bit. So all of those don't add up to much power. So I have succeeded in keeping power consumption below the 15 amp limit. I just have to basically unplug the house to run the table saw(14 amps). I have to be consciously aware of everything power related. It's really not hard to remember though. </div>
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All of the cooking, washing clothes and dishes, water source is all taken care of. There is a well on the property that provides enough pressure to take a shower. I have a camp chef outdoor on demand water heater to take some nice hot showers. And that little thing works very well. It really can get the water scalding hot, too hot. I wash all my clothes by hand in a big metal washtub and hang dry them on a clothesline. It sounds like it's a lot of work but it's really not if you wash on a consistent basis. I save all of my whites and do them on one day. Any work clothes that get all sweaty usually get washed the day of use. Cause living in a tiny house there is no buffer for smelling dirty clothes! lol. Washing dishes is also done by hand and outside for now until I get the kitchen sink hooked up. And so I don't contaminate the soil or groundwater, I have all organic soaps for dishes, shampoo, conditioner, and organic toothpaste. You can't let any sulfates or fluoride into the groundwater. Since I want to farm the land as organically as possible, the water has to be pure of these things. Eventually all my grey water will be collected and filtered in a reed bed system for reuse in the garden. </div>
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Cooking is done all on the front porch with my camp chef oven, stove, and grill. That thing works great! I love that thing! I would definitely recommend this for other tiny house dwellers. It cooks very fast and even. One small disposable propane tank lasted for three weeks of cooking. Tea every day plus rice, noodles, stir fry, burgers. I still have not used the oven but the grill and stove work flawlessly.</div>
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The fridge is a Koolatron DC fridge (4 amps). I bought a converter so it can run on AC power. It is one of those fridges you can put in a car for long trips. But it is the lowest power fridge I could find. It is about the size of an ice chest but it sits upright like a normal mini fridge. I keep eggs, butter, cheese, milk, bread, beer, etc., in there pretty much constantly and have had no problems. When I have solar power I will put a timer on the fridge so it will not run constantly. It is not loud at all and I don't even notice that it's on. The plug can actually be reversed and you can use it to keep things warm. But I don't have a use for that function. I have had the fridge off for a few hours at a time and everything inside was still cold so it holds it's cooling capacity pretty good.</div>
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The air conditioner is working good as well. It is an ice box in that house at night and I barely have insulation. All I did was use can foam to seal any gaps. And it doesn't take long for it to get cool in there. But it does take a little bit longer to cool the loft. But once I have the insulation and the interior wall panels up I should not have any problems. The good thing about building with pallets and the location of the a/c unit is that the cavity in a pallet is a perfect little tunnel for air to flow through. I plan on diverting some of the a/c output flow through the pallets up to the loft to cool it down faster.</div>
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So far living tiny and almost off the grid has not been too difficult. It is a lifestyle change and probably most people would have a hard time doing it but I have made some strides in providing myself with some entertainment dangling off the grid. I have internet and TV! I have a USB TV tuner installed on my laptop that is now working thanks to the HDTV antenna that I built. The $40 flat panel antenna from the store would not pick up any channels at all. So I had to look for a better longer range antenna. I am about 50 miles from the nearest tower so I had to come up with another plan. Either buy the $125 antenna on the internet or figure out a way to build one myself. So thankfully YouTube has come to my rescue. It turns out with a little copper wire, some PVC, nuts and bolts and a 75 ohm matching transformer you can build one yourself. I will add the link for those videos and plans here:</div>
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Now I get 15, very clear, free over the air HD channels. The over the air HD signals are actually clearer than what you can get with the cable company. The cable company filters the signal that goes to their customers. So far I haven't had any signal drop. I do have to move the antenna slightly every now and than to get a certain channel. But this antenna works better than any other antenna I have ever had and it was about $20 in supplies.The USB TV tuner was made by a company named Diamond Multimedia. The name for the particular tuner that I bought is called the ATI TV Wonder HD750. It was a bit confusing getting it set up. The wizard is a little weird and the instruction manual is pretty much useless. But if you are handy you can figure it out. One of the best things about it is that you can pause live television and schedule to record shows, it has a remote, tunes in radio stations as well and comes with an a/v cable and an antenna (I'm too far from towers for that little antenna to work though.) Which is why I built the antenna!</div>
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There is no doubt that I have had tremendous help with this whole project from family, friends, even students. But I need to give a shout out to a few people that have helped me recently and show my appreciation for them.</div>
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First of all, I would like to thank my friend Adrienne for letting me stay in the apartment behind her house this summer while I got my house livable. I can't express how much you have helped me out this summer! Thank you, thank you thank you!</div>
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Next, I would like to thank Carolyn Webb Moore for introducing me to her father Russel Webb! He gave me a whole truck load of really nice wood like oak and cypress! He even said one of the cypress beams he gave me he pulled from some old slave quarters! He is a master carpenter and the building you see below is his old sawmill that he built completely from reclaimed materials from jobs he had done over the years. It was great to hang out there with him and talk about where all of his wood came from. He had many stories and it was great day and I am extremely thankful for his gratitude and compassion for what I am doing. The other pictures below is everything he gave me that day. Some of those beams have got to be expensive! Thank you!!</div>
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I would also like to thank Terry and Marie Looney for loaning me some power tools! The table saw and miter saw have proven to be extremely helpful. They also lent me a jigsaw and their shop vac and some other little nic nacs. Thank you so much and your tools will be returned soon!</div>
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And last but not least I would like to thank my dad, once again, for helping me get the electrical in. He was the reason I was able to comfortably live in this unfinished house. I think it would have taken me a lot longer to figure out the breaker box and especially the 3-way switches! I had so much trouble with the 3-ways but my dad guided me through it over the phone and I eventually got it but not without lots of trouble. I was at the point where I thought I had everything wired correctly and it turns out I did but, I bought a bum compact florescent light! That would be my luck to buy the one brand new light bulb in the store that doesn't work! But thanks dad! Love you!</div>
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Well, long story short it did fine, flawless. Which is great news! I was worried that it could have tipped over or a tree could fall through. But there was hardly any limb debris and the construction debris didn't even budge. I also coin it up to the long talk I had with ole' Mother nature! lol! I have a couple of pics below that show it boarded up the day before an then another of the morning after Issac blew through. But since the house handled the winds flawlessly it now has a name...'The Tiny Fortress of Solitude!' (I am kind of a Superman fan!)</div>
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The shower I have explained a little bit in the past but I will sum it up for those that are just reading my blog for the first time. I got the shower base, faucet and shower head at World Market. It was an all in one outdoor shower. I actually bought the last one they had in the store. It was the floor model so I got it for about $90 instead of $150! The base with drain is an Aquatic 32x32 shower pan that I bought from one of big box stores. I had to cut the shower base from World Market to fit inside the shower pan. Then I reinforced the parts I cut to have stable footing. But this reinforcement was still not enough to prevent the outdoor shower base from moving and squeaking. The solution was to coil a rubber water hose in the shower pan and set the outdoor shower on top of it. After I did that it has never moved or squeaked. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">Cut and fit shower into the pan! And it's being attacked by love bugs which like to swarm anything that is white.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">I found a new spot for the shower. I was going to put it all way against the back wall but it was just to tall to fit under where the loft is going to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">The walls for the shower are 8' corrugated aluminum panels. With roof flashing in the corners all seams filled with butyl tape which is used for metal roofing to keep the water from going between the gaps. The panels are screwed to the walls with roofing screws with the rubber gasket.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">It now has hot water and nothing leaks. For now I have a shower curtain but I might put a glass door in eventually.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I stapled mesh wire to the bottom of the closet to allow things like the a/c to vent.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installed a/c from the inside with its own plug.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front light with temporary fixture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">We have light!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front door 3-way switch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loft 3-way switch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">That one light really lights up the whole house at night. I have no trouble seeing at night.</td></tr>
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<b>Framing for bathroom, closet, loft and stairs</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">Started to add more framing around shower and for the loft. The loft or bed base is taken from the steel bed frame that my dad built for my bed at my old house. I just knocked the legs off of it and bolted it to the top of the framing for the bathroom, hallway and closet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are osb panels that fill the bed frame to support the mattress.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My kitchen sink. I bought as an outdoor sink to go on my balcony at an old house. The apartment I rented didn't have a kitchen so I bought this online somewhere for about $150 to wash dishes. But now it's going to get a good cleaning and polishing and going to go in my kitchen!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what the stairs look like now with them trimmed up and the new floors that are in makes it look a little more homey! The rest of the stairs is going to be a box step at the top of the last stair and a ladder the rest of the way to the loft.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">My new cat Sammy. aka future field mice killer! Thanks Carrie!<br />
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The floors were found on Craigslist by my dad. They are reclaimed oak. He wanted some for a project but gave me the rest of it. And I had more than enough to finish the whole house. I will use the rest on parts of the walls and the bathroom floor. I still will have to sand it and restain it or seal it. I didn't have that special hammer gun to drive in the nails at the perfect angle. I used the old fashioned hammer and nail and then drive in the rest of the nail with a philips screwdriver. I had some issues with gaps and didn't get everything as perfect as I wanted but I think it turned out pretty good. Even if I didn't do anything else to these floors they would still look pretty darn good.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fresh water storage that will be in the bathroom for washing hands. It's not going to stay on that table it will eventually have a sink under it and then drain to the outside and eventually to the grey water recycling system. This was another find from World Market!</td></tr>
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But that is all for now. Next I will be finishing up electrical stuff, doing some insulation, wall bolts, gutter, kitchen sink, bathroom floor, under loft framing, stairs, closet stuff, hopefully some interior walls and ceiling and other random things I'm sure.<br />
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I left off last time with finishing up the front porch. Now I got the roof and the siding on. It took almost the whole month of July to get that done. We have had so much rain that I couldn't catch a break in the weather half the time. But alas I got it done...well almost. The steel used is 24 gauge galvalume for most of the house. The first batch of metal that I bought was ordered through Lowes. That turned out to be a mistake because they sold me 26 gauge galvalume which looks kind of crinkly when it's up on the wall. That is the only thing I am not really happy with. But overall it looks pretty good. I ended up going to a local guy for all of the 24 gauge galvalume. His business is called Copper by Tom. They have been a big help in determining what type of flashing I would need and gave me a lot of good advice on how to put everything on. And it turns out they have a huge solar panel system at their house and gave me some really good advice about who to go through down here. So thank you Tom!</div>
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I also put a first coat of Black Jack elastomeric roof coating on the roof. But that is the only coat I got to get on this month. It has just been raining so much! This paint helps to:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Chicky is trying to help!</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Fourth row tacked up.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>I put up my first decoration! It's copper plate of a Mayan calender. It use to be a bird bath in my garden at my old house.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>There will be a square galvalume gutter going across the top to hide those lines and then trimmed up.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>I only put on piece of flashing up on the left side until I finish painting the roof. The ladder was very slippery when up against the flashing. It was just to dangerous so it will have to wait.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>I bought two 7000 lb. stabilizer jacks to go on the side of the trailer frame near the tongue. Still gotta hire a welder to put these on.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>This is my Haier 5000 btu A/C. 515 watts and 6 amps. </b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Check out my shower! I found this at World Market of all places! $90 on huge sale down from $150!</b></td></tr>
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It's an outdoor shower that you would see next to a pool. But I am going to put a shower pan underneath it and use it inside.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>30"x 30" base</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>It stands at just over 6'.</b></td></tr>
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Finally I get to do some work on the inside! These angles are at the front of the house and taper back to almost the center of the house. These will provide extra support for the walls and provide aesthetics whenever I cover them with wood. It looks cool in my head! You will just have to wait and see!<br />
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I decided to go ahead and put the roof on for the power closet that is going to be on the back of the house. This closet will house the electrical box, solar power stuff like the inverter and charge controller, backup propane water heater, bathroom vent, outlets, the a/c will be sticking out the wall but will be hidden by the closet door(eventually), water entry, etc. The bottom of the closet is going to be steel mesh. Strong enough to hold stuff but breathable. The propane water heater and the a/c need to vent.<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<b>Framed it.</b><br />
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That's all for now. I thought I would have gotten more done this month but the weather did not cooperate. Since I am working on the inside mostly, the rain won't matter and I can get this thing livable before labor day. So the month of August will consist of electrical and plumbing, some if not all of the insulation, framing for the loft and bathroom, shower, kitchen sink, maybe part of the floor, stabilizer jacks, and a few other miscellaneous things that I will go into when they are completed. And just today I got the hole cut for the a/c unit and ran an extension chord to test her out! And I also bought online my propane Camp Chef outdoor camp stove/oven/grill that will go on the front p<span style="background-color: white;">orch! Until next time!</span><br />
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Wish me luck!!sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-19059684616960217572012-07-01T05:43:00.002-07:002012-07-02T05:14:36.063-07:00Back at it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. It took me the whole month of May to get moved out of my house and settled at a friends temporarily for the summer. Plus I have been doing some extensive research and planning because I keep coming up with new ideas for the house. So that brings on new sets of questions that I have to find answers for. So I am trying not to rush anything to prevent me from doing something wrong and having to start a project over again. Basically, this is a series of pictures on the installation of the front porch. I also put furring strips on the roof and on some of the sides to prep for the metal roof and siding. I also purchased some of the metal and have started the roof, purchased two 7,000 lb. stabilizer jacks to go near the tongue for added stability (they have to be permanently welded on), and purchased my bathroom door(random I know but this is how things happen!). My friend Adrienne also gave me some of her kitchen cabinets because she is redoing her kitchen. Have I mentioned I love free stuff!!<br />
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<b> Used decking to go up the sides.</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The thing that looks like a window is actually just going to be a shelf because I am putting a stove/oven/grill right below that.</b></td></tr>
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<b> Now for the decking on the ceiling.</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Found this at The Green Project in NOLA. Brand new sliding glass shower doors for $75! This is going to be the door to the bathroom.</b></td></tr>
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All in all, I like how it turned out. It is cool and modern looking to me. And everyone I have shown seems to like it so it is a success I guess. Let me know what you think!</div>
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Next things on the list is to get those jacks welded on, metal roofing and siding, steel cable X-bracing inside walls and ceiling, 3 windows installed, electrical and plumbing, and spray foam insulation. If I can at least get all of that done I can move into the house and finish it from there. I have till labor day to get that much done(hopefully more!) because that is when I will no longer be able to stay where I am at now.</div>
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<br />sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-22886386680947905162012-05-02T09:44:00.002-07:002012-05-02T09:44:57.190-07:00Where There's a Will, There's a Way!Besides this step in the process being tedious I would say that it went without anything major happening like last time. Basically, the house wrap was easy but it would have gone a lot faster with two people or in hindsight I should have built something to attach the roller to so I could roll it from one side to the other without having to go up and down the ladder a million times. The first three rows were very easy but the top row basically sucked because of the angle of the roof and having to hold the house wrap and staple it all at the same time.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Found this bathtub in someones trash in front of their house. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I was originally planning on doing a shower with a wood floor and tile walls. But if I can make this work I will probably use it instead but I will still most likely use tile up the walls. The tub is just plastic and is very light so it wouldn't add that much weight. But I would have to paint it a different color. I dislike very much when I see pictures of a tiny house and their bathroom is draped in those ugly white plastic shower stalls. I know they are lightweight and waterproof and all but please paint them people! I have painted a plastic tub before and it worked pretty good and was easy to do.<br />
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Random pics: I realized I didn't take a picture of the roof yet and some other small sheathing steps.<br />
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The house wrap on the back was easy. And by the way the Lowes house wrap is 3'x100' and costs $30 per roll(the cheapest anywhere). Unless you can find some at Habitat Restore(which I did only to find it after buying everything from Lowes). It took three rolls of house wrap and one and half rolls of house wrap tape.<br />
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I got a truck load of sheets of plywood, lots of boxes of screws and nails, a nice long level, and a cordless drill from one of my lovely guitar students! For Free!!<br />
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The sliding glass doors I got for free on craigslist did not have a frame. I thought it would be easy to find a frame and install it but boy was I wrong. It was nearly impossible to get the right threshold frame for the exact sliding glass doors that I had. Plus they were old and I couldn't find any manufacturing information on them. So I checked all the second hand places and all around town and craigslist but had no luck. So I broke down and bought this door from Lowes. This was a necessity not to wait on if I could find something for free. This was the last piece of the puzzle to get this house sealed up to protect it from the rain. And because I will be moving this month from the house I am living in now, I will be taking a break on the house to get the move underway. In fact, I gave my thirty day notice to my landlord just yesterday (5/1).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Sliding glass patio door from Lowes. $300</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>They say putting in a sliding glass door is a two man job in the instructions that come with the door. HA! Where there's a will, there's a way!</b></td></tr>
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Some of you readers out there might be wondering why I chose the sliding glass door and whether or not there will be any windows on the side. Well, there will not be any windows on the sides of the house only on the back and the front of the house. So obviously the sliding glass door is a dual purpose door and window and there will be windows in the back, two coming from the loft and one small glass block window in the bathroom. The reason for not having any windows on the sides is to provide maximum insulation from the heat. Remember I live in south Louisiana, it gets hot!!! In fact, this winter was so mild that we only had two or three nights with a slight freeze. I'm talking maybe 16-20 hours of slight freezing the whole winter! So the summer is like 100+ degrees everyday for 3-4 months of the year. That gets the house I live in now crazy hot. I have tripled the curtains on my back windows so the heat will be kept out so the A/C can keep up. The walls and ceiling are going to be filled with foam insulation by a diy company called Tigerfoam($1/ sq ft), and the exterior side walls and roof will be covered with galvanized steel panels as a radiant barrier. The roof will also be coated with a ceramic paint called Thermoshield (developed by NASA) that adds the equivalent of R-19 insulation to the roof just by painting it! So all of that should keep me nice and cool in the summer!<br />
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The next step this month will be to move. I am getting a storage building for all of my stuff and moving the rabbits and chickens out to the property. Towards the end of this month I will be staying with a friend while I complete the house. However, I will be doing some small projects on the house like adding some more bolts and frame supports before the insulation goes in. And adding diagonals of cable wire to really secure the house to the frame and also provide extra wind protection. Also I will hopefully be investing in some scissor stabilizer jacks to attach near the trailer tongue. That's right...this whole time the house has been stabilized by a piece of wood a three old tires! lol! I will also have a blog update soon about the process of moving and pictures for you to see all of the stuff I have and the process of moving it, selling it or throwing it away. A practical guide on what we 'really need' in our lives and what we can do without.<br />
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<br />sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-77938189013136753292012-04-17T08:49:00.001-07:002012-04-17T08:55:40.166-07:00Not by the Hair of my Chinny Chin Chin!!No big bad wolf at work here but...I did promise at the beginning of this journey that I would post all issues related to building this house whether good or bad. Well, that being said we had a minor set back...um...the wall fell down. Or I should say we pulled it down trying to get it square. We attached a winch to one of the walls and a tree to try and straighten it just a little bit and that's when it happened. Unfortunately, my dad was by the wall when it fell on top of him. It was a scary moment. I had to take apart some of the wall to get him out. Basically, his arm got pinned in between the trailer frame and the wall and something cut a laceration on the top of his head. We scrambled to the emergency room. You can see the pictures I took while in the emergency room. They put some staples in his head and x-rayed his arm but luckily there was no fracture just some major swelling.<br />
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Needless to say we called it a day. But he came out with me the next day with the role of 'supervisor.' He still helped me lift a few things which was pretty awesome considering what had just happened. He's pretty tough to say the least and I am just glad he is okay. It could have been a lot worse.<br />
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Just want to say that if there are any readers out there that thought the pallets were not strong enough and not a building material, you are still wrong. Even though the wall fell these walls will be very strong! The pallets turned out fine after the fall. What failed was the bottom plate of the stud wall. I was planning on going back later to add some long carriage bolts through the stud wall all the way through the trailer frame. So when I do that it will be very very strong. Then I am also going to tie in wire cables through the trailer frame up through the walls and over the rafters and back down through the other wall and the other side of the trailer frame.Once I tighten those cables down that thing won't be going anywhere! It's a similar system used to tie down mobile homes while traveling or to increase stability due to high winds.(There... rant over!)<br />
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So now back to work repairing from the fall.<br />
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So that day I had my friend Curtis come help me lift the OSB panels for the first row on each side. This is actually the hardest part to do if I would have had to put the first row of panels up by myself. I have a trick for the other higher rows.<br />
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One of the 2x6s broke when the wall fell so now I am replacing that. Luckily I am getting these 16' 2x6s for free! They are not cheap at the store. So these next few pictures are me putting up the 2x6s all the way around the top of the house.<br />
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The rafters were a little tricky to do by myself but with wood clamps and a ladder it makes it possible. It's just a lot of up and down the ladder and back and forth to each side. But each rafter is on a 24" center.<br />
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Like I said the sheathing for the next two rows on the walls are going to be easier than doing the first row. When the first row is complete I can nail in a 2x4 that sticks half way up the piece of sheathing and simply slip in the new sheet of OSB behind the 2x4 and on top of the first row. Once I get it up there I can let go of the OSB and straighten it up and screw it in!<br />
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I put these supports in to try and stabilize it a bit more. It seemed a little shaky but as I added more OSB panels it just got sturdier and sturdier.<br />
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The third row of OSB was a little more challenging because I had to cut the angle of the roof. Plus it was very windy that day so when you are 10' up on a ladder holding a large section of sheathing it is somewhat tricky to stay balanced when the wood is acting like a sail! But I got it eventually. It also helped to pre-drill in the screws on the ground so I didn't have to fight that up on the ladder.<br />
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The roof was pretty easy because I didn't have to cut but only one piece. I guess the hardest thing was getting the panels on the roof. But really it was just time consuming drilling in all the screws into each rafter. And if there were any seams where the sheathing met and there was not a rafter underneath I went back and added some extra 2x4 rafters to make the seams stronger.<br />
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With the roof complete the whole house really feels a lot more sturdy. No more shakiness! The whole house just rocks a little on the axle springs which is what it's supposed to do.<br />
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The last thing I got done this time was the roofing felt. I was going to purchase some roofing material made by a company called Grace ($75/roll) but it was just too expensive compared to roofing felt ($17/ roll). I also thought I could use house wrap on the roof but on the roll of house wrap it says not to do that. It doesn't give a reason why but I guess it just won't hold up as well as felt. I don't know. I also smashed the crap out of my index finger on my left hand! Not a good finger to smash when you are a guitar player and you have a performance in a week! But hopefully it should be better by then.<br />
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The next thing to do will be to put the sheathing on the back wall and then house wrap the walls. Hopefully, there will be no set backs this time but you never know! I also have some interesting news about the land and farm situation...or should I say lands and farms!! But I'll get into all of that soon enough! Tune back in next time to find out!<br />
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In this past month I have gotten a lot done. I wanted to be further along but there is always something that is unforeseen. I got the trailer moved to its new building location(in my friend Keith's yard), the second layer of OSB on the floor, and the pallet walls up. The moving and the second layer of sub-floor was the easy part. Unfortunately, the pallets(unless all are the same size and thickness) are not the 'building blocks of life' I was hoping for.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Just so you know: I upload my photos in order of appearance. These sliding glass doors came into my life (for free) via craigslist!! Now I have a front door! Just need to build a frame for it and it needs a new lock.</b></td></tr>
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Roughly most pallets are about the same length and height. What I didn't factor in was the thickness of each pallet. Which is probably the most important factor to consider. I would say the width is the second most important and the length the third. If all of the pallets are not the same thickness then at least one side of the wall will not be flush, so that when you apply the sheathing, the wall would be very curvy and lumpy. So when you are out treasure hunting for pallets it is important to find a place that has a lump sum at there disposal. If you go to the same source for your pallets they are most likely going to get the same type of pallet for their shipments. I'm not saying this is always the case, but it is what happened in mine. My main sources for pallets are a furniture warehouse and local microbrewery. The furniture warehouse just has a big sign by the pallets saying 'free' so that was an easy pickup. The microbrewery has many stacks for their pallets. So I went in to talk to their shipping guy and he explained that each stack of pallets has a different function. One stack has pallets that were no longer used and were scheduled for pickup. Apparently, some guy goes around and picks up pallets, fixes them and resells them. The other stacks were for different shipping items (some for kegs and others for cases and bottles). This is a perfect example of why you should go in and ask about the pallets before you take them assuming they are free. Because even when it seems like they are free I assure you they are not. And if you get caught taking some pallets you thought were free. Then you could go to jail just like you would if you shoplifted in a supermarket. So use some common sense if you embark on pallet treasure hunting!<br />
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The first wall is made from pallets from the furniture warehouse. All of these are made from pine and are all the same thickness (5"). Pine is very easy to drill a screw through. So if you see pallets that are lighter in color it is likely that these will be easier to work with. I didn't know this before I started but I definitely know now. Most of the darker pallets are made from hardwoods and being that they are very durable also means that they are very difficult to drill through especially if your drill is not the best one you could buy!<br />
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Now we are getting somewhere!<br />
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As you can see from the pictures I decided to put 2x4x10s in between each vertical row of pallets. I found some cool brackets at Lowes to help attach the studs to the bottom wall plate. This really helped because I am doing this one pallet at a time, not an entire wall section and then lifting them into place like traditional construction. If you have ever researched pallet sheds or houses then you are familiar with the I-Beam Pallet House design. Designed for refugees in Haiti (which never really took off), it is a cheap way to build that is actually quite durable. When the exterior wall is applied and the cavity of the pallet is filled with some sort of insulation it is considered to be just as good if not better than normal construction practices. They say that all the pallets that are thrown away in the United States every year could house the refugees of the world!! And they are free for the taking and are everywhere! You don't notice them until you are looking for them!<br />
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The first wall is not complete but I wanted to go ahead and start on the second wall to secure both sides so they wouldn't fall over. The second wall comes from the microbrewery. These pallets are all made from hardwoods but all are 4.5" thick and the same height and length. Now the other wall was 5" thick and this one is 4.5" thick...does this matter? you must be thinking! No, not unless you are OCD and can't get past that it's not perfect! As long as each section of wall is the same thickness then the sheathing will lay flush with the outer wall. So to the naked eye you can't even tell.<br />
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On the back of the trailer were the two sections of each wall where the pallets had to be modified. Basically I measured what was left to complete each side of the wall and cut the pallet. I didn't cut it exactly. I cut it to leave an overhang so I could go back and cut the overlap so it would be perfectly flush with the stud. Cause pallets are not perfect- meaning they are hardly ever square! So if you measured what was needed to complete the wall and cut that precise measurement then when you put the pallet up there it could be short of where you measured it. Then you would have just wasted a pallet! Needless to say I got lucky in this instance!<br />
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Something I haven't mentioned yet was the extensive use of wood clamps! These things are a necessity when building with pallets. Remember how I said pallets are hardly ever square? Well you can get them there if you secure the pallet to the bottom plate and to the bottom of one stud. Then take the clamp and attach it to the top of the pallet and the stud. Squeeze them together then secure with 3" galvanized screws. Without those clamps it would be almost impossible to get it as square as possible.<br />
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Now I have to add more studs and get these walls more straight!<br />
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In most pallets there are three 2x4s holding together the planks on each side. Two on the outside and one in the middle. The two on the outside are screwed to the vertical studs which hold up each vertical wall section. The one in the middle will have a short 2x4 cut and screwed to it to prep for rafters, and more places for sheathing to be attached to. If you notice in the picture above there are only 7 visible studs popping out above the pallets. In the picture below there are now 12 studs on one side and 13 on the other. Huh? Yes, I will explain this later. But it is what it is!<br />
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So I added more studs to the center piece of each pallet now I have to get the walls straight and figure out the pitch for the roof.<br />
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Needless to say, I didn't think these two things would be related but it turns out they were. I was going to pop a chalk line, cut the studs, and add a top plate, but these walls had other plans. So I have to say that in regular construction they do all of the walls on the ground and then lift them into place. Well, they also have multiple people working on it so they can lift it into place with a group effort. Well, I am doing this all on my own so there has to be a change in how this is put together. I did try to pop a chalk line only to find out that the walls need to be perfectly straight before the chalk line could be straight. Then I figured if I could measure each stud the correct height and then cut it I would have the correct pitch for the roof on every stud on both sides of the house right!? Wrong!<br />
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This is were the 12 studs on one side and the 13 studs on the other side comes in. So here is another example of TRY TO FIND ALL THE SAME SIZE PALLETS! The pallets on the left side of the house are slightly less wide than the pallets on the right side of the house. So when you think you are going to connect the rafters to the studs on both sides of the house only to find out that they are not directly across from one another, you have a predicament to say the least. So since staring over was not an option I sat on the front porch and thought and looked at the house for about an hour until I figured out what I could do! See the picture below? The 2x6 nearly at the top of the studs is what had to be done! I had to connect these 2x6s at the exact pitch of the roof which at the same time would straighten all of the studs! I think these 2x6s, which came in 16' lengths, were a gift from above! I just happened to find an old pile of wood in Keith's backyard that was just wasting away but not too bad to use. Keith said it was there before he moved there and that he didn't want it! The recycle angels were looking down on me! But how could one person put up a 2x6x16 up 10' in the air by himself without a tall enough ladder!?<br />
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Extremely carefully that's how! The pallet had to become my ladder and again the wood clamps had to become my best friend! Basically one end was hoisted up a drilled in place on the lowest pitch angle for the roof and then the other end was lifted on top of a wood clamp to temporarily hold it in place. Then I had to cut another 2x6 and attach it to the highest end of the roof a screw that into place. So if I had the highest angle and the lowest angle in place then where the two 2x6s met in the middle would be the correct angle for the roof. The highest angle is 10' and the lowest angle is 9'1". I attached the 2x6s together with a flat galvanized connecting plate. You buy those the same place where the hangers are sold at Lowes. Then each stud had to be attached to the 2x6s. I had to drill pilot holes and then put screws in. Just imagine me climbing the pallets holding on for dear life, drilling a pilot hole, changing out to a philips head bit, screwing the screw in all while up 8 ' of of the ground. It was not easy! Imagine doing construction while climbing a rock wall. It was not fun and I am very sore not to mention I threw my arm out from drilling so much!<br />
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I also started on the first piece of OSB for the siding and cut a 2x6 for the front wall which connects to the 2x6s on the side walls. I can already tell how much more sturdy it is getting! My dad comes to help this week and he will bring a taller ladder, a reciprocal saw, and an extra pair of hands which will come in handy for the OSB siding.<br />
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So next will be cutting the excess studs off of the top so you can see the roof pitch, installing the roof rafters and top plates, and the siding and roofing material. After that will be to wrap the walls and roof in house wrap and some sort of roofing felt. If we can get that far I will be truly excited! If we are really productive then we will probably install the front door and maybe a window!<br />
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Now that the repaired trailer successfully made it back to my house. I can now start installing the frame for the floor and sub-floor. Before I left my parents house, over the Mardi Gras holidays, I needed to run some lumber through my dads table saw. The wood that needs to go inside of the c-channel steel needed to be cut at a 7 degree angle and then run through a router to get the correct curve that is inside of the steel in order to sit flush. The top lighter colored wood are 2x6s that I had to buy from Lowes, and the bottom darker 2x4s came from an old church in Alexandria, La, that my dad is renovating (Yay free stuff!). This step was pretty easy and only took part of a day to install everything. First, I dry fitted some of the wood to make sure everything fit and then applied liquid nail to the backside of the wood to help keep the wood in place. It all fit very snug but the extra adhesive didn't hurt.</div>
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Next came time to hang the floor joists. I thought this was only going to take a day to do but it took about two instead. Turns out that hanging floor joists is probably a two man job! Oh well, I made it work. To make the floor joists sit flush with the top of the steel frame I had to cut about a quarter inch notch on each side of each joist. If I got it perfectly cut the joist would fit snug into the frame and would then be easy to install the hangers. I got it snug about 60% of the time I guess. The other 40% required me to hold the joist on my shoulder and hold the drill, hanger, and screw all at the same time to get it hung up there. It was a balancing act and sometimes frustrating but I eventually got it. Also don't let your wood sit for too long because some of them could start to warp very quickly. And I remember when I bought the wood I checked every piece to make sure nothing was warped, but inevitably some pieces just did it anyway.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Making some progress!</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Most of the joists are in now.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>View from the back. See the small rafter between the first and second joist? The second one was warped bad and I had to pull them together with that rafter. It was a battle!</b></td></tr>
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Now for the front porch!<br />
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The porch measures 4x8 and is covered with 8' treated decking. At first I was going to install the full 8' board across the width of the trailer but I would have had to put in more rafters in between the joists and I didn't feel like doing that. It seemed like more work. So I decided to cut pieces to lay them horizontally with an 8' piece on the front to kind of cap everything off. I think it made for a nice look. At this step in the process I dry fitted everything first before I screwed the boards to the joists. I had to get all of the gaps in between the decking correct and make sure it all looked even and flush. I took many steps back and took a long look to make sure it was pleasing to the eye. I mean, it is the front of the house and the first thing people are going to see. You don't want to invite the first person to your house and have them tell you something doesn't look straight, what a bummer that would be! I wasn't worried about the back of the porch being perfectly even because it will eventually be trimmed in and you won't be able see it anyway. But all in all I think the porch is a success and I can't wait to give it a nice dark wood stain like you would see on a sailboat or something.<br />
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Now finally for the first layer of OSB sub-floor.<br />
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To cover the entire trailer I only had to buy 5 4x8 sheets of OSB. It all fit very nicely and I only had to cut an inch and a half off of the piece laying next to the front porch. I got it all flush and was ready to screw these suckers in! It took two half days to complete this! While most of the floor joists are wood and it was easy to screw the OSB into them. The other joists were steel cross pieces of the trailer frame and it took some time to drill through the steel. All around the sides of the trailer I screwed in 1/4" hex screws to attach it to the wood that was running on the inside of the steel frame. That was pretty easy and I thought I could put in self-tapping wood to steel screws for the other spots. Oh no, that was not the case! While the self-tapping screws attached to the angle iron joists fairly easily, it was a way different story going through the c-channel joists. The steel on those guys are much thicker and the screws would not even come close to tapping themselves. So I had to drill through them and bolt the OSB down. While this worked for a little while it became harder and harder to drill through the steel. And then all of a sudden-Snap! My drill bit snapped in half! And then another one and another one! Three bits in a row. I thought I had all titanium bits and that would do just fine but apparently, after some research, Cobalt bits are better to use for steel. They can still break, but if you are careful they can work. Turns out that right when the bit is about to penetrate the other side of the steel is the most likely time that the bit will snap. It gets snagged on a few of the last shards of steel sticking out the other side. So if your drill starts to get stuck just back it out and slowly work your way through.<br />
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The next step is to now move the trailer to my friend Keith's house to finish building the house. I was planning on finishing it at my house but my landlord wants it gone. So thankfully Keith saves the day again! I also gave myself a deadline for getting this thing livable...June 1st! I told my landlord everything I was planning on doing and told him I would be out of the house by then. It is kind of scary to think about all I have to do between now and then but it is very exciting!</div>
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This is the first layer of OSB for the sub-floor and originally all I was planning on doing. But as I walk on the floor now I feel it needs to be stronger. I was researching online and I found a contractor that said you could glue down another layer of OSB and it should be a lot stronger. Then when I put the wood floors in everything should feel nice and solid.</div>
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Most tiny house builders put in the floor insulation at this time as well. And I am sure some of you might be wondering why I skipped this step. Well, one reason is I left the insulation I had at my parents place. My dad will bring it for me when the Easter holiday gets here. Second, the trailer, when even with the ground, sits about 3 feet high from the ground. So there will be plenty of room underneath to get the insulation, plumbing, electrical, or gas lines in. And then one day when I am done under there I will completely enclose it with something, probably aluminium sheets, but I'm not exactly sure about that yet. And because the trailer sits so high from the ground I now have to change part of my original interior design that I had revealed in a previous post. I can no longer use the sliding glass door that was going to be the bathroom door and wall. The door itself measures 6'8"h and when you add 2x4s under and over it to frame it in and not to mention the floor joists for the loft on top of that, that leaves little room up in the sleeping loft. To be street legal the house can only be 13'5" tall. So if I use the sliding glass door it would only leave like 2' up in the loft and while that might be enough for me to lay down it will definitely not be enough room for me to sit up. So the sliding door will now be used as the front door to my hoop greenhouse on the farm!</div>
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Turns out that taking out that door opened up new interior design possibilities. So now I will have to go back and draw up some new plans from the same program I used last time. But from the rough sketches I drew up at 3 in the morning just the other night, it will make the space even more fantastic! All will be revealed in due time. The only thing I can think of to describe what it will look like is these three things: Swedish IKEA design, a cube house, and a yacht all wrapped up into one!</div>
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So I will leave it at that until next time! The next step will be to haul the trailer to Keith's, double up the OSB, and start the pallet walls!</div>
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Well, a long story short I finished building the trailer. I spent about an entire week working like mad for twelve hours a day trying to complete this thing before my Mardi Gras break was over and I had to go back to work. You see that little warning disclaimer in the headline of this post? Warning: Do not try this at home! I am very serious when I say I wouldn't recommend it. On the difficulty level it is probably a 8 or 9, it's not rocket science or anything but it is a serious undertaking. If you don't have any welding experience and no one to take you under his/her wing. Don't even try it. I am just lucky that my dad has every tool known to man that I could use to help me build this thing. And not to mention my father's brain to pick when I had a question or a concern or needed a second opinion. Let's take the first picture below as an example. Those are the axles hanging from the frame. Well, before we hung the c channel steel brackets to the hangers on the springs we just welded the hangers to the frame. What is wrong with that you say? We tried to put the tires on and the tire was running into the frame and I couldn't even get the tire on. So I had to cut the hangers loose and fabricate the c channel steel brackets that would hang the axles lower so the tires would fit. That mistake right there cost me almost a whole day.<br />
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But hey, we got those pesky axles on and by that time I could see it was starting to look more like a trailer. Next we got the tongue of the trailer attached. It takes a second to get it up in the air, clamped to the frame, and lined up, but it wasn't so bad.<br />
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Now for more work on supporting the axle brackets with angle iron in between them so the brackets would not bend whenever it was being transported. I also primed the hubs and some of the other axle supports at this point.<br />
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Now time to put on the wheels. You may have remembered that these axles are mobile home axles which are different from standard wheels and axles you would see on a normal utility trailer. When you put mobile home tires on the hubs the lug nuts come with a bracket that clamps the wheel to the hub. Now you have to get these tight or you might have a wheel come flying off on the road!<br />
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Originally, we got two standard axles instead of one brake and one standard axle. My dad went back to the guy you sold us the axles and just traded one of the standard axles for a break axle. Each axle was $75 each and each tire was only $25 each! What a deal when you see what the prices are for a brand new axle! The savings are tremendous. Go to the yellow pages and look up mobile home movers. These guys have this stuff just lying around. Be careful about putting these axles on your trailer because some states won't register a homemade trailer with mobile home axles because they consider these axles to be used only temporarily while moving mobile homes. But in all honestly they will work fine. You only need to cut them down so they fit the 8 ft width limit. And in my case in Louisiana, it is not an issue. I'll get more into the registration process later in this post.<br />
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It moves! We hooked it up to the truck and put in the parking lot next to my parents loft to prep and start painting the first coat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Truck and trailer unite! You may notice the trailer looks a little tilted. That's because we don't have the new ball mount in yet and this is the old one.</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>First coat: Rustoleum exterior gloss paint.</b></td></tr>
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The lights, the infamous lights...oh how I hate you!<br />
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I thought this was going to be one of the easiest parts to building this trailer. Boy was I wrong! I purchased a light kit from Buccaneer Truck Stuff in Alexandria, La. These guys have all the stuff you need if you are building a trailer. I started putting on the rear lights and realized the way the frame was done I couldn't mount the lights evenly on both sides. So I had to fabricate some mounting brackets for the lights. That was actually the easy part. For the front side clearance lights I had to drill through the frame and attach the lights with a nut and bolt.<br />
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To wire up all the lights and the brakes you need a 7 way RV plug and the attachment for that on you truck. Luckily my truck had that already. But be sure to check that all the pins are not bent out of shape. My pin for the ground cable(white cable) was bent and nothing was getting power to the lights (Thanks to Danny at Buccaneer for figuring that out!). Then after everything was wired up the lights worked for a second but then all of a sudden we had no light. We checked the fuses but couldn't see that any were burned out. We were at a loss. We had double checked everything to figure out that it probably was a fuse but couldn't figure it out. So we carefully towed the trailer over to Buccaneer to see if Danny could figure it out. Turns out that one of the fuses for the lights was wrong. There was a 15A fuse where a 20A fuse should have been. After Danny quickly figured that out we were in business. We also got the new ball mount that will sit the trailer even with the road and not tilted like in the previous picture. Thanks Danny!<br />
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At this point we were racing against the clock. It was about 2:30 on Friday afternoon and I wanted to get the trailer inspected by the state police before 5. But we still had to wire one more side clearance light and weld on the trailer tow chains to the tongue. So while my dad wired up the light I welded the chains on and touched it up with paint.<br />
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To register a trailer (in Louisiana), you need to get a homemade trailer affidavit from any Louisiana state police office and get it signed and notarized by any state certified notary. Then you have to bring it back to the state police office and turn the affidavit in so they can inspect and stamp the serial number on your trailer. They will literally bring out a hammer and pound it in on the tongue next to the coupler. I didn't know how strict the inspection process was going to be but the officer just said, "Now that's a trailer!" Then he asked me if the lights worked and I said yes. He didn't even make me turn them on. He then pounded the numbers in and handed me my receipt to take to the DMV. That was it! At this point it was 4:30. I made it just in the nick of time! The officer said my receipt was proof that it was registered and that I could go ahead and move it to take it to the DMV of my choosing. That was what I needed to hear to go ahead and make the trek home 3 1/2 hours away.<br />
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So I embarked on my first journey on the road with this thing. All was fine for the first two hours of the trip. I remember hitting some bad bumps after I crossed the Mississippi bridge in Baton Rouge. Then some guy pulls up on the side of me saying that something fell off my trailer. Well, it was already dark so I had to stop and pull over to see what was wrong. One of the supports between the axles was gone and some others were loose. But the main thing was one of the c channel welds snapped! This is the warning I put in the headline of this post. If you don't do this right the consequences could be drastic. From Baton Rouge to home I drove about 40mph with my flashers on. What should be an hour trip from Baton Rouge took two and a half. It was extremely stressful and I don't recommend it! These next few pics are the trailer the next day after I thankfully made it home.<br />
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So now I have to repair this somehow...hmmm?<br />
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Well, that brings my friend Keith to the story. He also has every tool known to man. But more importantly a welding machine. He was kind enough to let me use his shop and use whatever I needed to make this trailer right again. So all day Sunday and Monday morning I welded and welded. Fixed the broken stuff, re-welded spots I thought might be a risk, and added some new supports to weak spots. I also had to rewire some of the light because the wires snapped when the frame broke and drooped down.<br />
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An extra thing I did not mention was what I was using to jack up this heavy trailer with! On most trailers people permanently install a 2,000 or 5,000 pound jack onto the tongue and just wind it up to the height they need it. But I chose to buy what is called a farm jack and I am so glad I listened to my dad on this purchase. It is so versatile. Not only can I lift up any part of the trailer(not just the tongue), but this will become an invaluable tool for life on my farm. This thing could get my truck out of a jam, uproot small trees for clearing land, and even stretch wire for fencing. In fact I would not have been able to get the trailer repaired if I didn't have this jack. It helped me get the side of the trailer level so I could weld it back together.<br />
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After all the repairs were done I took my receipt I got from the state police and took it to the DMV. I gave it to the person working there and she just needed my license and money for fees. There is a handling fee, registration fee, and license plate fee(they give you three choices: Re-register every year in June($10), every four years($40), or a permanent registration for ($70). I chose the yearly fee because I didn't have enough cash with me. In all it cost me $41.50. So bring enough cash for whatever choice you make. The only other questions she asked were the color of the trailer and would it be carrying more or less than 500 lbs. They didn't even look at the trailer. I guess the receipt from the state police is enough for them. But she gave me my license plate on the spot and now I have a registered 'utility trailer.' Now it's finally time to start building the house on top of it!<br />
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So there were some ups and downs in building this but I finally did it and I can't really believe it myself! My next post will be installing the floor frame and sub-floor sheathing.<br />
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</div>sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-15120211610205086822012-02-10T09:51:00.000-08:002012-02-10T09:51:31.299-08:00Things Happen for a ReasonYesterday, my landlord calls me to inform me that they are selling some of their rental properties and my house is one of the lucky ones! Great...so it looks like I could have as little as two months left in this house. The plan was to gradually work on the house and pack up things to prepare for the move by summer so it would not be so overwhelming. While that is what could still happen I don't know how fast they will sell this little house. I really have mixed feelings about this. On one hand this new turn of events will force me to work as hard as possible to make sure I am completing this project in a timely manner. But on the other hand I want to have some room for error or some unseen setback. But I have to think that things happen for a reason in their own time and place.<br />
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What if they would have called me three months ago and told me they were selling. I could have had to find a temporary place to live even before I was able to start on the house. At least now I am almost finished with the trailer and can start building the fun part! If I can get four walls, a roof, and the electric run, I will probably go ahead and move out to the new property as soon as possible and finish the house out there. Since I am going to be off-grid anyway this will give me a crash course in living without all of the comforts for a little while. But I figure it won't be too bad. I am going to use a generator for the lights, radio, computer use and air conditioning for now. And a propane stove, campfire, and solar oven for cooking. And I guess I will have to bring in water for now until I can get the well dug and the rainwater catching system set up. You know after writing this it sounds like a fun adventure and you can bet I will be updating and blogging about it all!sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-2655504199311803492012-01-31T07:34:00.000-08:002012-01-31T07:36:29.675-08:00Any progress means one step closer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItRn33iFwATM0muJAfKCFf4LMr5qrduwY-tTX0-CXmVycqp55SCyisjjGCcYpEdRrPob1TXrljkxWCU3wlZQ9aAB_AsM7YlCBioWPEKBwqOLDmpaR62-ozOOcEkdP_ehxYSCCoLasG2k/s1600/2012-01-30_08-31-40_876.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiItRn33iFwATM0muJAfKCFf4LMr5qrduwY-tTX0-CXmVycqp55SCyisjjGCcYpEdRrPob1TXrljkxWCU3wlZQ9aAB_AsM7YlCBioWPEKBwqOLDmpaR62-ozOOcEkdP_ehxYSCCoLasG2k/s320/2012-01-30_08-31-40_876.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Here is a pic of the frame jacked up and the tongue on the ground ready to be attached on the next time we get to work on it. </b><br />
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Back to work on the trailer for my house! Any work being done on it is truly exciting. I am literally losing sleep thinking about what to do next and design ideas for later down the road. This adventure sure is going to be a fun one I just wish some of my good ideas would not enter mind at 3 AM! After 8 AM would be sufficient!<br />
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Although we only had one full day of work we really made some good and important steps towards finishing the trailer. We basically got the mobile home axles cut down so the tires would sit under the trailer rather than to the side. This way we can keep it street legal and I won't have to worry about getting a stupid permit for transporting. We also got the two extra supports for the axles welded on. This was the hardest thing to weld so far and very important because these supports will carry the weight of the house and I want to get it right! Can't have a tiny house crashing out on the road! <br />
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That is pretty much what got done. May not sound like a lot but it was an all day project which for the most part was spent in planning and then welding. The only other thing we did was get the frame jacked up off the ground so when I come home during Mardi Gras we will be ready to attach the axles, tongue, prime the frame, wheels, brake lines, lights, jack, floor frame,and floor.<br />
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That's all for now. I'll post again after the Mardi Gras holiday and we will hopefully be done with the trailer! Then I can move it to my house and work on finishing the house on a more consistent basis. My goal is to have four walls and a roof by the summer. Wish me luck!sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-78768365936428605052012-01-13T06:52:00.000-08:002012-01-13T06:53:52.875-08:00Basic Interior Plans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc9OfzMMUhJIUioOmuwzfvmsOSGo_cKENvjCGn2QQVqKPe7tV4G2cjaN45vAp9LSoBI52pYb2S8Z2vrpspk824tYPLczgzb_0Bk_sUY3H8nKVdatasvd-9X-okm9wcsct_7FRUahVLffo/s1600/tinyhouse1a" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc9OfzMMUhJIUioOmuwzfvmsOSGo_cKENvjCGn2QQVqKPe7tV4G2cjaN45vAp9LSoBI52pYb2S8Z2vrpspk824tYPLczgzb_0Bk_sUY3H8nKVdatasvd-9X-okm9wcsct_7FRUahVLffo/s320/tinyhouse1a" width="320" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Main Floor</b></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I stumbled upon a design website today so I thought I would give it a try and draw the basic layout of my tiny house.The website is called Urban Barn-Online Room Planner. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So the structure is 8x24 complete with a living area, kitchen, bathroom, front porch, and a sleeping loft. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Let's start with the front porch and work our way in. The front porch is going to be very small with just enough room for a few chairs. The entrance is going to be either double glass french doors, a glass sliding door or I also had the cool idea today to make the whole front wall and entrance out of a garage door. That way I could open an entire wall on those nice fall or spring days. But I will have to decide what's best and what my wallet can handle. I also had the thought of putting in a single glass door that way on one side of the front wall there could be a double fireplace inserted in the wall so you could see the fireplace from the front porch and from the inside! Let me know what you think would be coolest!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When you walk through the entrance to the living area there will be spaces for sitting, a fireplace/cast iron stove of some sort, dining and entertaining type stuff (pico projector for TV and computer, music recording gear, instruments). The furniture that I put in this design is not necessarily what it will eventually look like but that is what was in the design template. I probably won't decide that until the house is near completion. Those of you that know me also know that I am a musician and my tiny house will also function as a tiny recording studio. And for that reason, if I can afford it, the house will have cork floors. Which functions as a sound absorbing material plus cork is very sustainable and comfortable to walk on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When you reach the middle of the house you will be able to see the ladder to climb up to the loft on the right, and a bookcase/storage system behind the ladder. Then you will be able to walk straight into the kitchen which will be stocked with a LP stove top, double sink, LP/electric fridge, and storage. Across from the kitchen will be a large 9' long sliding glass door that will go into the bathroom which also doubles as the shower door. The shower will be surround by corrugated aluminium panels and the shower floor will be wooden designed like a Japanese bathroom. Next to the shower will be the composting toilet. On the side behind the toilet will be a small but tall door which can access the closet/storage area that backs up to the bathroom. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now up the ladder to the sleeping loft. The loft will have a queen size bed with storage on both sides of the bed as well as at the foot of the bed. There will be enough headroom to sit up comfortably but not stand. A nice comfortable spot to sleep with a small window in the gable to look out of at night. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The only part of the house that I have not mentioned is what I call the power closet. I didn't draw this into the design because the template I used didn't have the right tools to include it. The closet will actually be on the outside of the house (on the trailer tongue) at the rear behind the kitchen and bathroom. The power closet includes things like the electrical control panel, propane tanks, batteries, backup propane water heater, water and 30amp hookups, charge controller, inverter, etc. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From the design blueprints up top you might not be able to see precisely what the inside of the house will look like, but hopefully I have painted enough of a picture in words for you to imagine what it will look like. And if not...then when I get closer to completion I will have lots of pictures and videos and then you will hopefully understand what is stirring around in my mind right now!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367288441429457491.post-4923446555664763572012-01-04T09:18:00.000-08:002012-01-13T12:05:43.437-08:00Started the trailer frame! It has begun!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbcYvXoEySWP995qW3B2gBoWrmvHDcWVi2M6RJsaO6N0IiCT4amYen4yXuhdAdw7BcWOKX-8nVkgGvJsWCkLMvaZmWvyTdYspvSt3VVfyPRa3gn_V-OFnCxiJRn1W4qHu4CDP4c5lEl0/s1600/391810_10150543312464493_517154492_10609187_1731013676_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbcYvXoEySWP995qW3B2gBoWrmvHDcWVi2M6RJsaO6N0IiCT4amYen4yXuhdAdw7BcWOKX-8nVkgGvJsWCkLMvaZmWvyTdYspvSt3VVfyPRa3gn_V-OFnCxiJRn1W4qHu4CDP4c5lEl0/s1600/391810_10150543312464493_517154492_10609187_1731013676_n.jpg" /></a></div> Most people, when building their tiny house on wheels purchase a flatbed trailer and build the house on top of that. Well, I can't afford a $3000 trailer right now but luckily and thankfully my dad has all this scrap metal, a cutting torch, a welding machine, and the space to tackle such a project. It's made from 9" c-channel steel and could weigh about 1200-1500 lbs. when complete. We also have the two 6000# mobile home axles, tires, hangers, and the tongue ready to be put on but we haven't gotten that far yet. The size is an 8x24 trailer, of what my dad would call, 'glorious independence!'<br />
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In the following months I moved a lot! From Baton Rouge to Tampa, back to NOLA. And even when back in New Orleans, we had to move from small studio apartments to FEMA hotel rooms to FEMA trailers. So pretty much during that time I lived very small. The only other time I lived smaller than that was I guess in a dorm room in college.<br />
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Growing up in central Louisiana, I lived in a middle class neighborhood in a big house. I'm not sure of the square footage of that house but it was probably over 2000 sq. ft. And don't get me wrong I loved every minute of it. We had a big back yard, a pool, you know, pretty nice stuff. I had a great place to grow up and I can't be appreciative enough to my parents for providing that place for me. In fact, at one time I know I wanted a house even bigger and better than that when I grew up. I wanted it all! A giant house, a giant boat, multitudes of cars, motorcycles, a second home in the mountains(I still might like to have that ;) ), everything under the sun! Of course I would have to be RICH to have all of that so I was certain that one day I would be the CEO of some giant powerful corporation! Seems funny to think back to those lofty dreams but reality can hit you pretty hard sometimes.<br />
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But I also thought that maybe another way to have all of those THINGS was to become a 'rock star' to pay for all of those meaningless things. So in college I switched my major from accounting to music. Some of you are probably thinking...neither of those majors sounds like you are going to afford all of those things you want. Well, you are right, although it is possible to obtain those successes with those two backgrounds, it is highly unlikely that it will actually happen. But, alas, I marched forward. Now that you know a little about me and how I got here now, let's get to the part you are probably anxious to read about--The tiny house!<br />
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One day I was sitting in my small studio apartment on St. Charles Ave., and I was worried about money and gas was up to like $4 a gallon and I was trying to figure out a way to save as much money as possible. I was budgeting, hyper-miling on my commutes, conserving water use and electricity. I was trying to do everything I could to save money. After all I was just a poor music teacher that basically lived from paycheck to paycheck while at the same time trying to pay off debts like credit cards and student loans. I was just sitting there saying to myself, "Why is this(life) got to be so hard? It doesn't have to be this way." I thought about how people used to live 200 years ago. Sure it was a difficult life compared to now but at least there was more individual liberty and the idea of manifest destiny was still in their hopes and dreams. Then it clicked! I should start growing my own food! So I immediately started looking for a different place to live so that I could have a small garden to grow vegetables.<br />
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Well, I found a nice little house with about a tenth acre backyard and started digging and planting. I was successful for some things and other times I failed miserably but it was a learning experience for me because I had never been taught how to garden. I had to learn everything from scratch, or as I like to call it youtube! So for the past few years I was content with gardening and I got chicken for eggs. It was very satisfying! But that introduction to a more sustainable life was all I needed to snowball me towards figuring out an even better way to live. More aware now of the way things use to be and how I knew in my heart that it was the way we needed to live now, I dove deeper into what I needed to do next to get me to a point where I felt more comfortable in life. And then I discovered the tiny house on wheels. Jay Shafer's tumbleweed house was the first one that I saw on youtube. I was in love with that house from that moment on and have been dreaming and planning for the time I could get started on my own project. I wanted so bad to reduce some of my bills, reduce more of my consumption, and be outside more to grow food and raise animals to live a more sustainable, happier, more free lifestyle.<br />
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So that pretty much catches you up to where I am now. I have just started my tiny house project with my dad. We began welding the frame for the trailer and acquired the axles over the 2011 Christmas holidays. It is going to be a long project but the end result will be so amazing I just can't wait. I have been researching extensively every single tiny house resource I can get my hands on and have almost narrowed down what the final design is going to look like. Most people that are building tiny houses struggle with a place to put it but I will have a spot to put mine and enough space to have my small farm. So one day I can live in my small home on my small farm living a very big, enjoyable, sustainable life!sgrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567924346223607778noreply@blogger.com16