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. [...]
Not long after I got started down this path, Steven Kurutz, a reporter from the New York Times contacted me about this project. We talked a few times on the phone and they sent out a couple photographers to take pictures of me working in the tiny free house. The article is in the paper [...]
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I ran out today and scavenged some pallets with my father-in-law. He knew of a good spot near his old pre-retirement job that always had lots of pallets. There weren’t a ton of good ones but enough to fill the back of my truck again. Now that I’m learning where to look I’m starting to [...]
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. 
