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! I started designing ProcessHouse in April of this year. It started as a sketch on a pad of paper. Then it was a slightly more detailed sketch on a bigger piece of… View More
While on vacation in Maine last month I decided to try my tiny house floor plan on for size, inspired by Alek Lisefski’s tiny-project blog. Here’s the result, in photo form. Unfortunately I didn’t have a paved surface to work on, but I managed to make do with the front lawn. Not quite up to par with Alek’s work, however :) The… 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! The total interior floor space comes in around 200 sq… View More
Design is part aesthetics (making stuff “look pretty” as one of my coworkers likes to put it) and part problem solving (making it function well). As a web designer, this is something I know intimately. But most problems can be solved in more than one way. So how do you choose from multiple solutions? I encounter such design problems every day, and my approach to these situations is to try and find solutions that… 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! I’m happy to report that I put the finishing touches on my first “legit” construction project last weekend, finishing up a small deck expansion… 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! 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
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
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