Teaspoon Dwellings • Tiny Homes & Camper Conversions

Hey there! My name is Mike Spooner and I love designing and building innovative custom tiny homes, van conversions, and car campers. I’m based in southern New England and have been living in my own tiny home, ProcessHouse, since 2020. This website has served as a place for me to document my build process and share many of the things I learned along the way. If you like what you see and are interested in working with me, please email me at .

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Tiny House Construction Continued

Posted by Jon (Dad), 21 May 2016 8:15 pm

Seating in Mikey's "Grove." Will be his front yard, visible from large picture window.

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

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Tiny House Construction Begins! Installing Galvalume Flashing

Posted by Jon (Dad), 21 May 2016 8:03 pm

First support jig in place. Ends of 2x4s are beveled to facilitate jig removal from underneath after Galvalume sheet and joists are secured in place.

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

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Model 3 (Changing Plans)

Posted by Mike Spooner, 1 March 2015 4:14 pm

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

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Teeny Tiny Cardboard House

Posted by Mike Spooner, 16 November 2014 1:34 pm

Tiny house cardboard model (front)

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

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Tiny House Loft (Re)design

Posted by Mike Spooner, 27 October 2014 9:59 pm

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! Ok, so let me be honest: the loft in my tiny house has always been a bit of an afterthought. In fact, my design in its original form bypassed the loft altogether.… View More