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When I first moved into the cabin in May of 2008 I was loaned/given a little kitchen table which, while very functional, didn't really fit. It was in great shape, like new really, but was an 80's style particle board deal that just didn't feel right. I finally got around to making the table that I thought would fit better and I'm pretty happy with it. It is very simple, made of weathered wood from free pallets we picked up this past spring. The old wood and cedar branch legs are a much better fit for the cabin. I had enough wood left over to build a rustic end cabinet between the door and sink as well as a few wall shelves. I've still got a few details to finish but they are mostly done and very functional. I've still got gobs of wood left so I'm thinking about how I might put it to use.
Published in 1973, the book "Shelter", which I found at the library during my teens, was my first exposure to the idea that you could buy a broken down house for cheap, fix it up to live in and sell it later for a profit. Cheap meaning under $30,000 and no such price was to be had in the Bay Area. I was still enamored of the idea as well as all the other DIY housing plans the book offered. I was also entranced by the vernacular housing of indigenous cultures shown in the book and determined that a yurt was the way to go if you didn't have permanent land. Shelter was later reprinted, thus I could get my own copy. To continue the movement, the creator published "Home Work" in 2004 which describes even more determined attempts at DIY housing in full color.
Also at the library and later at a used bookstore, I ran across the other classic, "Tiny, Tiny Houses" by Lester Walker published in 1987 and was enamored of the little writing shack owned by George Bernard Shaw that could be turned to face the sun. Plus all the other shacks and micro-homes that could be lived in on the beach, on a frozen pond or in your backyard. I spent countless hours examining the floorplans and collecting information on how to build sheds. To make it even easier Mr. Walker wrote a book to show children how to build houses.
Mother Earth News introduced me to the California Mello Act which allows people over 60 to live in a micro house (under 640 sq ft) without a permit providing you have a friend with a backyard willing to allow you to live there.
I became politicized about housing when I read "Democratic Housing" by Donald MacDonald (1996) which introduced the idea of permitting modular housing. Small structures that people could build themselves and add onto as their finances allowed. Also included were plans for tiny student designed shacks that could be used by the homeless. And though these structures were readily put into use, the cities enlisted were not willling to allow them for fear they would be sued should someone, occupying them, have a mishap with one.
As time goes by more people have realized that the system creates more problems than it solves and, in fact, isn't really interested in solving them. That these books came into my life at all I owe to subversive librarians at the Menlo Park library (probably just one long haired Marxist who later tried to date me). And now we have the internet where these ideas are being shared. There are a number of sites devoted to people building tiny dwellings that sneak under code either by putting them on trailers or keeping them under 100 sq. ft. The most famous is the Tumbleweed but those plans and the wood for it a bit pricey so others have embarked on building a free house of scavenged wood and pallets with sites offering free plans. The most useful tiny house site I've found is tinyhouseblog.com/
To date I have yet to build a single hut for myself, but the opportunity of land and materials seems closer to presenting itself. Since putting up buildings takes a great deal of effort and I seem to be the only one interested in such endeavors, I spend most of my time entertaining various ideas in search of one that will best suit my resources.
La plage du Valais et ses petits cabanons accrochés aux rochers.
The Valais beach and its tiny sheds clinging to the rocks.
My kitchen. I'll be using water coolers until spring when we will hopefully trench in a line from the well house 150 feet away.
Tiny house activists, a married couple, came to speak at the Universalist church in mid February. They are part of the wave of the movement that is trying to change zoning codes to allow people to live in tiny houses legally. This has already happened in Fresno and Sacramento. They also want to reduce the acreage required for RV parks to 1 1/2 acres so more lots would be available for a tiny house village. They brought their house to show. They still have to find roofing material, but they are able to live in it now.
Portuguese Prefab construction company Modular System "Nomad" model, a prefab wood cabin.
More at: www.modular-system.com
Original Acrylic Landscape Painting of a Tiny Purple House on a Hill with a Row of Trees and Flowers.
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garden spring 2016, allotment garden, rotterdam, volkstuinvereniging ‚streven naar verbetering’; interior garden house
The folks at Backcountry Tiny Homes visited our school campus. I only had my flip-phone camera, and I didn't have a lot of time to compose photos in the small space, but here you go. The house is unfinished. You may visit www.backcountrytinyhomes.com/ to see some of their other work.
The Boaz Bifold Book Case Bed, by Murphy Bed Depot is available in a wide range of colors and finishes, at murphybeddepot.com
8 x 10 inches. I think this is where I'd like to live.. I don't need much space. www.ruralpearl.com
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