Just a quick update… for weeks now I’ve been hoping to get back up to the farm, and tiny free house, to finish the walls and get the roof on. But as each weekend approaches something seems to pop up between me and the tiny house. A trip to LA, winterizing my big house, rain, [...]
Last night I noticed someone had posted some pallets on craigslist so this morning before work Katie and I made a pallet run and crossed our fingers that they were still there. We lucked out and picked up 12 good pallets. I’d say 6 are nice standard pallets (40″ by 48″) and the other six [...]
I finally found time to get back up to the farm for a couple days to work on the tiny free house. I got the walls half way up and now only need 6 more pallets for the walls and 8 more for the roof. The walls are a not exactly plumb but not bad. [...]
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
Floor Plan
Latest Construction Progress
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. 
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