About the house
My claim of owning the first greenhouse-enclosed tiny home in the United States has received pushback that it is a) not tiny, and b) not the first. This spurred a conversation about the definition of both “tiny” and “home.” Should the use of the term “tiny home” be defined only in legal terms per the International Residential Code and/or local building codes? Or, is a … Continue reading What is a Tiny Home?
Designing a home that is functional and supportive of its occupant’s lifestyle is a leap of faith – you may consider hundreds, or even thousands, of details toward a coherent design, but can not know the result until months or years later. Amping up the stress to get the design right is the fact that a house is most people’s greatest single financial outlay and, … Continue reading Evolution of the House Design
How’d the greenhouse hold up to the first snow? Better than the trailer! Continue reading December’s Cold Snap
As construction accelerated earlier this year, I was not able to keep up with blogging about it. Now that construction is coming to an end, I will try to ‘fill in the gaps’ from that time. Or, you can see it for yourself on YouTube. Live In A Greenhouse on YouTube Continue reading Video is worth 10,000 words
There are several reasons to build the greenhouse before the house – saving the schedule is a big one. Continue reading Greenhouse First – For Another Win
Not a sexy topic but a few people have asked “Why not a full basement or just a slab foundation?” So I’ll lay out my thought process for choosing a half-height foundation/crawlspace. It sort of happened by accident and evolution. I did not include in the brief to the architect a request for a specific type of foundation for the house. It has mostly come … Continue reading Choosing the Foundation Height
