…and sometimes it doesn’t work out. In December I let my sister know that I would be moving along come the end of January, which would give me the sense of urgency I needed in order to get things wrapped up. 30 days to sell the remainder of my non-necessities, to finish up the remaining van projects, and to get things in order for a couple months of travel. At the end of December I […]
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In the fall of 2015 my sister, who lives down in Terrebonne Oregon, asked how I felt about trying my hand at building a tiny house. It is something I had been talking about doing for a while, but never had the space or funding to undertake. Enter this opportunity. They had a building near their house that was gutted and need of a lot of work, but was a solid structure with sheathing, a […]
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A footprint, as I often think of it, is our environmental one – how much resources we require and how many earths it would require if everyone lived this way. It is also, the space we take up, like the footprint of a house. Both are at play in this case. The latter is quite tiny – approximately 60ft2 total with probably about 40ft2 of living space. That is a less than 3% of the […]
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