I (Jon) have been privileged to help Michael in the construction process, and we are both quite excited with each day of progress, small or large. He has been planning it for a very long time - not only the house itself but of course the trailer also - no small task. He has planned pretty much everything on his laptop, right down to details of just how the framing members will be placed and fitted together and where to use specific… View More
Mikey says the tiny house has a frame on top of the trailer frame mainly because he wants a thick layer of insulation below the floor. The space above the galvalume sheets on the very bottom surface and below the subfloor - a space that is as “tall” as the width of a 2x4 (the 3.5” dimension), will be filled completely with sheets of rigid foam insulation. He says that some tiny house builders build their houses enclosed… View More
Initial progress was made today on the Tiny House. When Mikey got home from work, we scrounged up what we could find by way of 2x4 lumber pieces and 1/2 inch plywood scraps (I’m glad we keep stuff like that right now) and made a support “jig” of sorts to hold the first piece of “Galvalume” sheet metal in place on the trailer frame until we can lay the floor joists above it and install screws from below up into… View More
This long, cold, and (very) snowy Winter has given me plenty of time to think and re-think my tiny house plans. All that thinking has led me to explore some totally new ideas, culminating in an alternate design which actually has its basis in some of my earliest plans from a year ago, but draws heavily on the experience I’ve gained while working on the model I’ve been featuring on this blog. While I love much about… View More
June 2016 Update: The design I am building has changed once again and will be entirely different from the one pictured here. I’m keeping the new design under wraps for now–hopefully you will enjoy seeing it revealed as it is built! A rough scale model of ProcessHouse created out of cardboard and construction paper to get a better feel for the relative… View More