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2013/10/30 By John Leave a Comment

Staying Sane

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This project is by far the hardest single thing I’ve ever undertaken. Thankfully, there are lots of guides out there that talk about good ideas for small home design, how to build this and that, and how to make these ideas a reality. There aren’t many that deal with the stresses that come along with it.

There’s a dude in Pennsylvania named Chris, whose writing I’ve admired for a long time, who is also in the process of building a tiny house. His house is on solid ground, and his walls are square (I’m jealous). He’s writing a bit about the frustrations that come from attempting to do something like this without any experience, and it’s been helpful to read. I’m going to try and include a bit more of that as well.

For a long time, whenever people talked to me about how much they would love to take a trip like the one I did in 2009, I told them to do it. It’s easy – stop dreaming, start doing. I don’t think I’ll be saying the same thing about this project.

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Chris wrote a great manifesto for building a tiny house on a shoestring budget. I recognize that he’s right about the personal imperfections of occupant-assembled living quarters, but I’m still trying to make reality reach a vision I have in my head. Sometimes it’s hard when the two don’t mesh.

I’m working on it.

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2013/10/28 By John Leave a Comment

Clearance Lights

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I’ve changed most of the clearance lights from the original incandescent to newer LED. I added two additional lights to each side of the bus. I’ve always loved the lights on big rigs and their trailers on the highway at night. I’m working my way towards that. Baby steps.

I’m likely going to wire them to the house battery so I can just leave them on when we’re hanging around outside at night. They’re really quite bright!

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2013/10/25 By John 2 Comments

Countertop complete

We finished laminating the countertop!

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We just bought a roll of slate print laminate to attach to our plywood counter. It was actually pretty easy to install. We didn’t take any process pictures, but there’s a tutorial on youtube that we leaned pretty heavily on, and I highly recommend it if you’re looking to try this instead of buying an already finished countertop.

This had the added bonus of allowing us to use a little of the excess laminate to make our refrigerator match the counter.

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In other news, our woodstove has arrived!

It’s a cool little gasifier woodstove originally designed for use in boats. It’s really tiny with minimal clearances, and uses small stove pipe, so it’ll be a great fit. There’s lots more info here. It still remains to be seen whether we work on installing this next, or our electrical system.

Either way, we start attaching our ceiling tomorrow, so things are about to get weird. Brace yourself.

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2013/10/08 By John Leave a Comment

Bed Upholstered

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We finished the upholstery for the bed, though I didn’t take any process pictures. It looked about the same as the port bench, except about 6 feet shorter. You get the idea. The hinges work perfectly, and draw the upholstery foam away from the wall when the bench flips up to reveal the bed.

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Next up are the solar panels and other electrical stuff.

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