“Hello! My name is Carrie and I’m an architectural Designer. My husband is Shane and he is a Builder. We’ve started designing and building our own home (a Tiny House) and our blog will document the adventure.
Our hopes are to turn this into a career where we can design and build Tiny Houses for others. We both have years of experience designing and building, but we thought the best way to learn about the intricacies of a Tiny House would be to design and build one for ourselves that we will live in.
We started designing it in February of 2012, bought the trailer platform February 25th, and started building February 27th.
How we came up with the name: “Clothesline Tiny Homes”. I thought of about…. 123 different names and then Shane walked outside the next day, looked at the clothesline, and said “Clothesline Tiny Homes!” Perfect.…
Why Tiny? Clothesline Tiny Homes will strive to have a small footprint on our natural environment, will allow us to live wherever we want paying much less money for rent / mortgage and utilities, and will be a fun adventure where we can grow and learn to live with less stuff and enjoy our beautiful world much more!”
https://clotheslinetinyhomes.com/
“…There is something oddly alluring about smartly designed but freakishly small spaces. I know this because enough other people must be into these things to warrant the steady stream of them flowing from my Twitter feed. I also know this because I have never met a link promising a teeny tiny home that I was not compelled to click on.
So what is it about these places? I’ve got no interest in slide shows of the world’s most palatial mansions. But show me a studio the size of my kitchen, and I could stare at it all day.…”
Emily Badger in article titled: I Can’t Stop Looking at Photos of Absurdly Tiny Homes: https://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/03/i-cant-stop-looking-photos-tiny-homes/1443/
This came in a few days ago from Yogan, a carpenter in southwest France, whose treehouse is shown in Tiny Homes (pp 154-55).
“Lloyd, i see sometime your blog and i see that you make a new book “wheels and water.” With my collaborator carpintero (his name is Menthé) we made a new shelter, the principle is a base from 15m² so you can connect 2 trucks (my mercedes and the volkwagen of menthé). The base serves as kitchen, office, bathroom …with a wood stove, and the truck serves as bedroom.…
If you come in france you’re welcome
bye
yogan”
See construction photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/108938182056636113134/ConstructionCambane?locked=true&feat=email
Mike Litchfield, author of the excellent book In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats (Taunton Books), is going to interview me on the subject of tiny homes on the local West Marin radio station, KWMR, this Thursday at 9 AM, Pacific Time (PST -0800): https://www.kwmr.org/
A great review of Tiny Homes appeared on the flagship of the tiny house movement, the Tiny House Blog, run by Kent Griswold.
Due to that, and the Wall Street Journal’s and New York Times‘ article last week, we had web orders for 41 books today.
More on the tiny homes front: Our neighbor. fisherman Todd, told me that a few weeks ago he gave a book to a farmer friend, and the guy is already building something he saw in the book. Last night I saw John Korty, the filmmaker, at a movie in San Rafael and he said that his son was looking at the book and getting ready to build something out of it. It never occurred to me that the book would be such a motivator.
“40 Tiny Houses in 40 Days – Day 1
February 2, 2012
I’ve been shooting pictures of other folk’s tiny houses for over a decade now. While I’ve put some of my images in The Small House Book, I’ve still got some more stuff I should put out there. Here, then, are a few of my favorites- some new, some old.”
– Jay Shafer, Tumbleweed Tiny Houses
https://shltr.net/thjayblog
Here’s a link to getting the whole article (for 7 days) without subscribing to the WSJ:
https://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203363504577187231003879046-lMyQjAxMTAyMDMwMDEzNDAyWj.html?mod=undefined
Excerpts:
“It may be one of the most intriguing trends in homebuilding: do-it-yourself tiny homes.Š Lloyd Kahn’s ‘Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter,’ a quirky photo-rich book that preaches the benefits of a ‘grassroots movement to scale things back.’ It has already sold 5,200 copies in the U.S. and Canada since going on sale Jan. 15, making the title a genuin e hit in a distinctly niche market.
‘It’s about fantasy,’ said Jonas Kyle, one of the owners of Spoonbill & Sugartown Booksellers in Brooklyn, N.Y., which reordered it after a modest initial order sold out.…
‘What all these books reflect is that people are interested in living more simply,’ said Patricia Bostelman, vice president of marketing at Barnes & Noble Inc. “The economy declined, and people are finding ways to downsize.” Barnes & Noble is carrying “Tiny Homes” in several hundred stores in major markets.:
‘What I’m saying with this new book is don’t get a mortgage, don’t pay high rent, and don’t go into debt,’ said Mr. Kahn. “If you’re young enough or you’re just starting out and don’t want to work 12 hours a day, here’s an alternative.”
There are 6 photos from the book in WSJ online
From Tiny House Listings
“This shipping container house is located in Sri Lanka and has beautiful views of a the mountains and overlooks the lake it sits next to. The cabin was built in less than a month by a crew with no previous building experience that simply followed the instructions of Damith Prematikake, the architect for the project.
What’s great about this tiny house is that while the inside space is limited, the deck above makes the home have much more usable space without having to heat or cool it. The scenic views are of course an added bonus.…”
https://shltr.net/thsrilanka
“Hello! My name is Carrie and I’m an architectural Designer. My husband is Shane and he is a Builder. We’ve started designing and building our own home (a Tiny House) and our blog will document the adventure.
