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I was thinking through a suggestion from Kithera on one of my other blogs, Tiny House Design, about using a proper shower instead of a wet bath and decided to do a quick drawing to figure out if there was enough room for a proper shower. If I leave the width at six feet and [...]
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This is my first attempt at using Google SketchUp, the free 3D drawing software. Not too bad for my first 3D sketch if I say so myself. I still like real cardboard scale models though. Nothing beats being able to hold a model in three real dimensions.
As you can see it’s really simple. A bathroom [...]
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I subscribe to the magazine Mother Earth News and in a recent issue they spotlighted this tiny 100% recycled cabin. Jerry and Zyphia West in Camden, South Carolina built a tiny 16′ by 20′ cabin from reclaimed materials. Inspiration came from an article in Mother Earth News called “Build This Cozy Cabin.” Maybe I’m not [...]
I’m embarking on a little experiment. I’m going to build a tiny house that's cross between Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond and a Tumbleweed-like Tiny House on wheels.
The only difference is that it will cost me nothing. Any money I spend will be recouped by selling discarded things I find and most of the wood will come from old shipping pallets.
Why Pallets? It just seems like poetic justice for a house that questions consumerism be made from the very things that carried the products to market. More...
Pallet Framing Plan
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In The New York Times
In the summer of 2007 I had one of those Ah-HA moments that inspired me to write a book, change jobs, build a tiny free house, rethink my values, my lifestyle, and my future. 
