Building Smalltopia: We’ve got a roof!

Tammy Strobel wrote an essay on downsizing that will appear in our Tiny Homes book. Here’s the latest (October 16, 2011)from Tammy:

“{Every week, I post a short essay about the little house we’re building. Enjoy!}

We only have 8 more days until the little house rolls into Portland! It’s hard to believe we’re going to move in so soon! Last weekend we got to hang out with Dee and Katy and while Katy was in town she had a chance to pick up our roof (pictured below) and kitchen counter.”

https://rowdykittens.com/2011/10/roof-2/

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

One Response to Building Smalltopia: We’ve got a roof!

  1. Hey, Tammy’s roof looks so great! I think the shade of blue goes great with the wood stain siding of the little house. I really like this design of roof. The steams standing instead of being horizontal makes the roof look more streamlined.

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