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I don’t know why it was a surprise to me that fundamentally changing my life would fundamentally change the way I think about a lot of things. I don’t suppose it would be that surprising for people on the outside looking in. I wouldn’t say I was “worried” about moving into a tiny space exactly, [...]
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Imagine yourself driving deep into the Ontario old growth forest. Keep driving until you are past the pavement deep in into the pink granite of the Canadian Shield. Drive some more until the road becomes two narrow parallel paths carved into the forest by a rare car tire. Keep going, over the hills and through [...]
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Way back in 2011 I touched base with Nicolette Stewart of Click Clack Gorilla. She has been living in her caravan for several years now in Mainz, Germany that she was given and then restored to live in full-time. Nicolette recently shot a video to share on RelaxShacks.com that shares the background of her caravan [...]
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When I was thinking through what to write about this week I remembered that I have falling down the Pinterest rabbit hole for a while. One of my first boards was a place to pin Tiny House things that grabbed my attention. The Pinterest monster quickly took over and I began to pin everything from [...]
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If you’ve never heard of them, Goal Zero is a Utah-based company that produces some seriously awesome solar products. Their stuff is sleek and very well-thought out. I think of them as the “Apple of Solar”. What’s great about Goal Zero is that their products remove the technical aspect of solar, which prevents many folks [...]
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Kent Griswold from Tiny House Blog launched his Tiny House Magazine awhile back and so far ALOT of people have subscribed to his awesome publication that covers the latest and greatest news circulating around the tiny house community, as well as recent listings from our site and the month’s most popular post from Tiny House [...]
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Tiny House Ontario has the benefit of a little extra width when compared to tiny houses on wheels. I am glad to have it too. It gives me enough space to dance. With the cupboards/stairs on one end, and shelves on the other, the measurement of the main room is about 8.5 feet by 8.5 [...]
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Back in January, I shared a post titled “Love Where You Live.” I firmly believe that the place where you live is as important as the house you’re living in. This is why I, along with three other North Carolina tiny house bloggers and builders, began an organization right here in our own state: TinyHouseNC.com. [...]
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I’m excited to announce The Tiny House Photo Sharing Contest! To celebrate one anniversary year of the Tiny House Swoon website, I have launched a contest where you submit your best tiny house photo. Winners will receive some seriously cool prizes including printed tiny house plans, signed books, gift certificates, magazine subscriptions and much more. [...]
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Over the winter I had a little dinner party at Tiny House Ontario. In my excitement about company, I forgot to move the BBQ back from the wall of the cloth porch and when I lifted the lid, I melted a hole in the voile. I was very lucky that I did not cause a [...]
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“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first” ~ William Shakespeare When I built Tiny House Ontario in 2011, the stairs were a last minute rush job. They are very narrow and very steep but I am able bodied, familiar with them, and I take them slow. The truth is, they have not been [...]
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As usual, lots of great stuff happening in the Tiny House Universe this past month. Biggest gathering of tiny bloggers and builders ever assembled! I just got back from the Relax Shacks workshop in Wilmington North Carolina. About 25 attendees helped to build a fantastic home office for our very own Steven Harrell here at [...]
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