Monday, July 28, 2014

Perhaps I'll fit it on a pocket of pizza!

Last night I found a blog on tiny houses from which I printed a building check list from.  From that moment I realized that not one tiny house could ever be the same because one must build their home specifically around their needs.  After scrolling through a website where you get to visit with other tiny home dwellers and travel to take a workshop on building your home I started judging their spaces on how certain things weren't important while other things were or just the fact that they didn't have something I was going to make a must. 
The one thing I'm up in the air about is running water/plumbing.  It sure would make living a bit easier and I'm sure my environmental conscious would be in good use anyways like it was when I had my apartment off campus, but perhaps I could have the option.  Maybe I could fit everything with plumbing and have the option of connecting it depending on where I end up moving the house to.  I'm just wondering how grey water systems work on tiny houses, would it be cheaper to truck water in/how does that hook up or is it just a jug/tank system? Composting toilets aren't half bad honestly.
Other questions I have revolve around Where can I live legally in my tiny house?  Where do I find the codes to build tiny? How many skylights would I need?
Now I just need to work on organizing and accumulating savings and setting aside time to plan plan plan study study study blah blah blah yay potential tiny house!

Saturday, July 26, 2014

I wanna build a tiny house. I'm gonna build a tiny house.

Everyone in my family asks me, What are you gonna do with all of your stuff? At that point I lower my head and think to myself They don't get the point of living in a tiny house.
It's true, I have a lot of stuff in my room, I have a lot of art supplies, I have stuff outside in a shed waiting for my future, I HAVE TONS OF "CRAP"!  When I look around my parents' house in which I dwell I think of all the space that is pointless: the hallway, the huge living room, the dining room, the kitchen floor, the bathroom tub, the huge counter, my room and every unknown item in every mysterious box.  Next I think about the things I would "need": a bed, a stove, an oven, a cozy chair, a small refrigerator/freezer, a toilet, a sink, a closet, a book shelf, a table, solar powered hook up, running water, and of course a place to make and fire pottery.
It's really fun dreaming up this house and what it could mean for my future or even my now! I have two new friends, Stella and Jane, and they have been building the inside of their tiny house!  I only got to help them a few times and then I think I annoyed them with my imustknoweverythingbecauseiwatchmuchtoomuchHGTV so that's a big bummer...I could vent about it but you're no psychiatrist. Short story short, I haven't been invited back.  Anyways!  Ugh, I was skeptical at first about their tiny space of dwelling but one day my friend Shimarah (I hope I spelt that correctly -I tend to just call her shimmy) posted Tiny: A story about living small...and if it's not that, sorry, Netflix Tiny House and it should pop up on top.
There's something spooky about open space. To this day I still don't like going to sleep to an empty house.  Any(evilcat)thing could be lurking around the corner! Even the two bedroom apartment I stayed in one semester off campus was pushing the spookometer!
To wrap this first declaration of my dream to build a tiny house up I will say this:  I already started drawing plans the moment the film turned off.  And it should cost hopefully less than half of the amount of loans I've had to pay back...and still paying back. Boo you whorish loans!