Updates 5.27.13

BIG weekend! I slept in my tiny house, in my own bed. It as awesome! Very very cool to wake up in a house you built! I have since fixed my front door as well since it wouldn’t latch before, I thought that was pretty important.

The first annual Mini Maker Faire was this weekend, at which I gave a presentation on the construction of my house, I think it went fairly well especially considering my nerves. There seems to be A LOT of people in the valley interested in this sort of living solution. I was very surprised! There were people that came down just to see me and talk to me, what an awesome feeling. One couple drove from Elko Nevada to see me and one of the other presenters, very cool people. They drove up in their bus which is being converted to their second tiny house currently. The were SO nice and even gave me a tour of their work in progress, I have attached them below. For all of you that I met and talked to, thank you for making that such a great experience!

I did get rained out from finishing my siding this weekend but James and I got plenty of other stuff done!  On Friday dad finished all of the plumbing and even got the tires  put on the wheels.  I have the sneaking suspicion that I will need to add a spacer in the axles so that the tires aren’t hitting the trailer, that is yet to be known though.  We got all the cupboards cut out and drawer faces, I still need to build 10 drawers but we got a great jump on that stuff!  I got started on sewing some curtains too!

In other news Denny is getting big and strong, now 4 weeks old he is halfway to the age he needs to be to fly over!

Here are some pictures

First and foremost, look at how awesome this is! While in Minnesota a couple weeks ago I was talking with Grandpa Ike about my project and he told me he was going to make me a custom oak and black walnut cutting board, it is SO pretty!

I didn't honestly expect to see this show up let alone so fast! It is stunning and I love it, thank you so much Ike!

This is where we left off on the siding, it was too dark before for me to get a picture, so here it is.

I had ripped a lot of these boards off in order to get the water heater vented, here it is mostly back together.

All the set up to rip the remaining siding.

Painting up some trim boards

And installing them, here is the deck opening..

And this is pretty much as far as we were able to get sided before the rain started. All that set up work just to turn around and pack it in. The next row of siding will probably be the hardest but then it should go fairly fast to finish up! 🙂

And some cabinet doors! Wewt!

And the drawer faces are cut in prep for the drawers.

I even made the microwave shelf, now I just need a littl microwave

And the pantry doors, I opted to keep these flush, I will put little handle on them but I wanted it to stay pretty flush and the hinges I got allow for them to sit inside nice and flush.

This is my sewing cabinet

And preparing the camera cabinet

The middle one is going to be 5 drawers.

And the kitchen cabinets, including one big drawer for Denny's food storage under the stove.

All of these will be painted white.

And on to the Makers Fair, this was a portion of the crowd that came to check out the presentations, it was a packed house

I spoke on Saturday and set up a booth to chat with people on Sunday, I just pulled off one of my previous posters to print off for something to show

I also made a copy of Ryan's Infographic from thetinylife.com to give people something to look over, it was very well mulled over!

And of course a bunch of books, I have to admit I haven't looked through all of these as much as I want to yet but I got them to give people an idea of the tiny house concept.

And James got to set up his 3D printing booth right next to me! We thought we would get to chat more but we were BUSY

There were 500 people that came in by mid day and I swear I talked to most of them!

James did too, there is a lot of interest in cool things in Boise 🙂

His gizmos that he designs, prints and then sells online

It was held at the Discovery Center so I had to do a little playin beforehand

And here are some updated pictures now that I have my bed in there, that is a king sized bed for some sense of scale.

It was amazingly comfy, I almost think my bed is MORE comfortable in there but perhaps it's just a mindset...

And another shot I guess

And the living room, its hard to get it all pictured in on shot, its small but spacious. Th bookshelf is yet to be built, soon... 🙂

The shower... STILL needs cleaned up... uggg 🙂

And the other view.

The kitchen shot, before the cabinets

and the other side. My planer actually broke so I had to order a part, as soon as it gets here I will be back up and running and will wrap up the barn door.!

And Denny! Cutie!

Cutie!

Cutie!!!

The first night in the tiny house was a full moon, good karma!

And here are the pictures of the folks I met from Nevada, VERY nice and interesting people, they have lived in a tiny house for the last 20 years and I learned lots of tips and tricks from them!

This is a handicap accessable bus they are in the process of converting. There are solar panels on the roof, it was pretty awesome, I have to say and they were so nice to invite me in!

This is their overall space, bed to the back, tables on the left, kitchen to the right

And they even kept the lift and have a nice little BBQ patio when needed, they mentioned the idea of converting this to an outdoor shower that would have a cover around it and just drain below, could be pretty slick if you ask me!

And they opted to keep all the windows for visibility and use limo tint for privacy, from inside you can see everythign

from the outside, you can't see in! Notice that there is person standing there, and she is actually got bright behinde her but you cant see a thing except through the open window. Pretty effective!

and another

I guess this one snuck in here, not sure what I meant to show here...

It is pretty exposed out there in the house, lots of windows but since I am now staying in it I thought it was time to look at making curtains

James een got into the action, my rusty sewing machine, it was pretty fun to sew something again 🙂

Nothing too special, just some basic white curtains that will fit inside the window frame and not be too frilly.

And boom, bedroom shades, they let plenty of light in but still give me privacy

and I can open them of course as needed!