Tiny Happy Homes

November 12, 2013 at 11:30 am

“Tiny Happy Homes is the second tiny house company launched by Joe Everson, currently best known for Tennessee Tiny Homes. Joe is moving to Denver.…

   ‘My parents just retired and moved into the 400 square foot tiny home in my backyard that we built for my grandma who spent her final years there. My brother and my father will keep Tennessee Tiny Homes running here with my crew while I go out west looking for adventure and to grow Tiny Happy Homes.…’”

 https://tinyhouselistings.com/tiny-happy-homes/

Tags: ,
Post a comment (2 comments)

Monday Morning Fish Fry

November 11, 2013 at 6:58 pm

Day at the beach Yesterday I walked a few miles along the coast, carrying my wetsuit, surf mat and fins in a backpack. I’ve had the mat for over a year and never used it. It was sunny, the ocean glassy, surf 3-4 feet, but breaking straight across. Suited up — gotta bite the bullet sometime — and hit the water. Two surfers out, getting creamed each time they got up…When I got out, surf had jumped to 4-6′, breaking kah-wump with big thick lips…Bottom line: surfing a mat ain’t as easy as I thought, or as easy as it looks. I had a hard time getting in the right place at the right time. I did get one ride, but also got pounded a couple of times. But you know, at my age, I ain’t complainin, just getting in the water always generates chi…On the way back, there were these rock sculptures, hadn’t been there a few hours earlier.

   Tiny Homes On The Move is moving, albeit slowly. Rick has been working over a month, doing Photoshop work on the 1,000+ photos, many of which need resuscitation; on some of these he’s performing minor miracles, bringing out lacking color, depth and sharpness…I had a sort of breakthrough Friday when I cancelled a planned kayak adventure to Drake’s Estero and stayed here and got the intro and credits pages done, had been putting off for weeks. Now that everything is laid out, we will spend a month or so making corrections, and coming up with a cover.
Half Acre Homestead: I’m doing a presentation on tools Friday here at Commonweal. Click here.
Tags: , , , , , ,
Post a comment (2 comments)

Custom Gypsy Wagon For Sale in Oregon — $14K

November 6, 2013 at 11:30 am

“…the ‘Ladybug’ features custom antiqued copper accents on both interior and exterior, cedar interior walls with pine exterior, a real cobble wood floor hand laid piece by piece, and a hand built custom Dutch door. Ladybug can sleep two people however, it does not have a bathroom.

   This gypsy wagon, also known as a vardo wagon, is new – and was designed and built in 2013 in Salem, Oregon.…”

https://tinyhouselistings.com/gorgeous-homemade-gypsy-wagon/

Tags: , , ,
Post a comment (1 comment)

My Dream Home

November 5, 2013 at 11:30 am

Louie pointed this out to me on Thursday; he pulled the truck over, somewhere south of Ft. Bragg on Highway One, pointed down, and said, “There’s the house for you.”

Totally!

I’d be in or on that water every day. I can only dream…

Tags: , , ,
Post a comment (10 comments)

70 DIY Tips From Popular Mechanics

November 4, 2013 at 11:30 am

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post “diy-crafted-seattle-micro-apartment:”

70 DIY tips, thought you might enjoy, from Popular Mechanics: https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/skills/know-your-stuff-the-110-best-diy-tips-ever#slide-1

“Hole in One

Enlarged screw holes can be quickly repaired, we said in March 1972, by filling the hole with a wooden golf tee. Use a hacksaw to saw the tee flush with the wood’s surface, then sand and finish.”

Tags: , ,
Post a comment

Dan Price’s Underground Hobbit House

November 2, 2013 at 10:30 am

Dan Price’s Hobbit House was featured in our book Home Work in 2004.

“He’s got no wife, no money, but he’s happy in his ‘hobbit hole.’

Dan Price left behind a stressful life as a photo-journalist after his marriage fell apart, and he wound up in a meadow outside Joseph, Ore. He now lives in an underground hutch burrowed into the hillside. ‘I like being able to do what I want to do,’ Price told NBC. ‘I don’t believe in houses or mortgages. Who in their right mind would spend their lifetime paying for a building they never get to spend time in because they are always working?’”

Click here.

Photo: NBC News

Tags: , , ,
Post a comment (1 comment)