tiny house construction & living
This weekend’s work featured quite a lot of difficult angle cutting to finish siding the Snout. Also, it now has doors. Or, as I like to call them, “Nostrildoormus”. They can smell the future. I have materials to do some “roofing” on it, as well – not deployed yet. I need to get some galvanized … Continue reading More Propane Porchness & Patchwork Door
Nearly all of the work done on the homebox has been by my own two hands. A couple of times, I was lucky enough to have a helper or two for a day to get a challenging task (raising walls, installing roof rafters). Today, it was the rarest day of all: I didn’t do any … Continue reading Spray It!
Those black boxes are actually sheet metal wheel covers, not unlike the wheel wells you might have in the interior of your automobile. They’re definitely not suitable for bearing weight and anyway, they’ve got the insulating properties of 1/8″ of steel (i.e., none). To address both of these shortcomings, I present to you: wheel boxen. … Continue reading Wheel Boxes & Propane Porch Progress
Rain gonna stop me from building stuff? Nope. It does slow me down a bit, though. Without ever trying to cut one, I simply assumed compound angles would be hard to get right. Today I tried to cut one. Well, four, actually. Well, really eight. This was one of those times that assumptions turned out … Continue reading The Propane Porch
How do you get a 69×34 x30h tub into a tiny house trailer? This is how. This tub is nearly 6 ft long and should easily hold a solid 2 ft of water. Yep, you’ll be swimming in luxury. The open diagonal sight line to the left of the tub keeps you from feeling like … Continue reading I’m Tubbin’ It
Homebox interior design begins! It starts very quietly… … it starts, with a tape measure. And then I get jiggy with some CAD software and cool stuff starts to happen. h/t Emily Sparkle for introducing me to Loom, the free presentation capture program I used to create yon video. Continue reading Let’s Talk Interior
Start with a bunch of 2×6 and 2×4 scraps, not a one of which is longer than about 18″. These are off-cuts from wall studs and floor joists. Next, use a finger joint (upper inset) and some glue to convert short lumber in to long lumber by piecing them together. Only one joint is indicated … Continue reading End-of-Season Wrap-up
2018-08-05. At long last, the rear wall is sided! This completes the siding job! This wall and the one around the corner need to be stained before I can just leave it to the weather, but for sure the hard part of the exterior is done. There are a bunch of little gaps and such … Continue reading Tail Siding
I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before… sometimes when I’m building things, I hide little blessings or wishes. Here’s the back of a little piece of siding. And it lives right next to the door. … and that little piece of siding goes here, to the right of the door. Who doesn’t want a little love … Continue reading My House Has a Heart-On
Sure, it’s a construction site. Doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a little whimsical art 🙃 Continue reading Art!