Comments on: Enter to Win – Free Drawing for Tiny Prefab ebook

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:38:30 +0000

Great contest idea! I enjoy reading your blog just about everyday and find it a tremendous inspiration in my own tiny house designing. What I’d love, and am currently working on, is a tiny house or room that completely folds up into a very portable package.

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:06:22 +0000

I have a tiny hillside lot on a BC Gulf Island (Mayne)with a 13′ Boler trailer and 10×12 deck that I’m in the process of building a small roofed section on that will eventually have a winter porch I can bolt together easily and remove for the summer. I also have a 6×8 wash house/toolshed with sawdust toilet and space to have a bucket bath. Eventually I want to build an 8×12 cabin with loft using t&g 2×6 (slotted for assembly like a Lincoln log set) on the next level spot down. Then the trailer becomes a guest house/sewing studio. My granddaughter and I plan to have a spiral staircase with a slide around it down from the upper deck and also have a treehouse next to the deck that we can get to via hand cranked elevator cage (arthritis in my knees makes ladder climbing difficult.) I like the 2×6 for building the cabin because in our mild climate it’s inside & outside wall and insulation all in one. There will be tons of windows and a porch for comfy chairs. I’ve been working on drawings for ages, will likely get an architecture student to make some proper working drawings eventually. Once the lower cabin is done I plan to move over there full time but for now it’s just a visit whenever I can.

By: Len

Len — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:13:10 +0000

I like the idea of a pre-fabricated tiny house that can be disassembled and relocated. My current needs are for a 64 sq.ft. tiny house in the city that will eventually be relocated to the country and possibly expanded on. The DIY Prefab Building System appears to be a good solution. Thanks for putting this together.

By: Dan Hohman

Dan Hohman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:52:59 +0000

I am intrigued with the idea of converting existing 1 or 2 stall garages into rented living space. The structure is already in place and so often it’s used to just collect junk. Why not house more people in an existing foot print?

By: Helena Mattsson

Helena Mattsson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:54:13 +0000

I have the trailer 8×15, and I am still in the process planning how it is going to look. But I want a ordenary roof whit a roof window so I can look up at the sky when I am going to sleep on my loft. I wan´t the house to look like a swedish house and have red and white corners. I am going to live in this house permanently.

Thanks for this winning chanse.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:27:00 +0000

Very cool, thanks Michael!

I’ve been delving into this world of tiny/sustainable/minimalist living for awhile now and an finally getting to the point where I’m starting to make plans to find a location and get ready to build!

By: Ricky Newcomer

Ricky Newcomer — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:44:35 +0000

Ever since working with Marianne Cusato and Jason Spellings on the very first Katrina Cottage
in December of 2005 at the Fairgrounds of Jackson, Mississippi, the tiny house scale has seemed to me to be the answer for many housing challenges. Providing a “lay-a-way” financing
option for housing (as an alternative to paying
interest for 15 to 30 years) is the challenge that the tiny house scale offers in my design.
The design goals are as follows; 1. Itemized and
catalogued parts that can all be managed by hand,
delivered by pickup truck and paid for one at a
time as one’s budget allows. Parts must be easily
stacked and stored until the whole shell is paid
for and ready to be set up. 2. To provide jobs by
subcontracting the parts out to carpenters who build in their own shop or garage. 3. To include the basic need spaces for living AND at the same
time offer good proportions, functionality, lots of interior light and some measure of historical style. Hopefully, these goals are being met with
the design that I’m currently building. I call it
the “Palladio’s Escape Cottage”. See it (for now)
only on my personal Facebook page. Thanks so much.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:54:37 +0000

I live in a big, bulky house on a teeny tiny lot. I don’t have any room to put a teeny tiny house in my yard. I don’t own any land outside town, either– no undeveloped property, no get-away location, no vacation acreage waiting to be developed. My husband is not handy and is not good with a hammer. Neither am I. I live paycheck to paycheck so I don’t know if I will ever be able to have a teeny tiny house for myself. All I know is that I LOVE teeny tiny houses. I take pictures of them where ever I find them. I dream about them. I drool over them. Most people dream about their “dream house” mansions, but I just want a teeny tiny house. My husband and I spent two years living in a 27-foot camper, and I loved it. I spent ten summers living in a lookout tower, and it was great. (I had 14 square feet more than Thoreau did at Walden.) I’m tired of my big bulky house, and I need something to slobber over. I hope I win the book.

By: Francesca

Francesca — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:46:17 +0000

I’m a business major at Cal State San Marcos. Many of my friends are getting ready to buy a house or condo right now, but I think building one of these tiny homes is great. The idea is spectacular and the value of building your own economic house amazing. I really hope to win this contest. Thanks, and good luck to everyone else too!

By: Mark Young

Mark Young — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:25:20 +0000

I would love to have a tiny house with a tiny yard in a tiny city full of like minded people.