Building a tiny house is one of those odd projects that seems to move slowly yet moves incredibly quick. While the visual results may not seem great, the amount of work is often mind-numbing. Since the start of January and the initial deck installation, the tiny house has undergone considerable change. The casual passerby sees…
Tiny House Collaborative Offers D.C. Workshop
If you are wanting to learn what it takes to build a tiny house and decide whether tiny house living is for you from professionals who have built their own tiny houses and live in them too, then this workshop by members of the Tiny House Collaborative is for you. Sign up now for 2 full…
Tiny Blue Devil Officially Gets Underway
Many of you may remember me talking about my mentor role with South Lenoir High School in an effort to build a tiny house on wheels with their construction trades program. Called the Tiny Blue Devil we are building a 20′ Elm (plans courtesy of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company) on a custom fabricated trailer built…
The Santa Claus Haus Is Parade Ready
Who builds an 84 sq.ft. house? Not many. But this build was special. Designed as a marketing method for the modern tiny house movement as well as a way to promote the 2017 TinyHouseNC Street Festival, the Santa Claus Haus has already become a holiday staple in the Lenoir Co. and Duplin Co. area. Seen…
Santa Claus Haus: parade prep
We left off last time with frankenframing and all that came with it. Once the tiny house on wheels was framed or franken-framed, there wasn’t much left to do. Granted the tiny house is not livable, it also was not intended to be. In fact, I really only set out to build a shell until…
What State Are You In? Show Your Home Some Love With Home State Apparel
Whether reading a good book in a comfy sweatshirt or drinking hot coffee from your favorite mug, home means something different to everyone. Home State Apparel is a sustainable company based in Greensboro, NC, that practices living-wage economics guided by a few simple core principles: to provide the highest quality products, deliver exceptional customer service,…
Santa Claus Haus: frankenframing
In 1811 an 18-year-old author had a waking vision. The year was one of considerable rain and the girl once remarked that the sun had been extinguished. She – Mary Shelley – picked up her pen, closed her drapes, and returned to darkness and clay in her epigraph, which she took from John Milton’s Paradise…
Lenoir County Public Schools Joins The Tiny House Movement
I have been fortunate enough to team up with our county school system to work with high school students in the CTE (career and technical education) program, to build a 20’ long tiny house on wheels being called the Tiny Blue Devil. The build will be updated on www.tinyhousenc.com. Students at South Lenoir High School in…
Since 2009 we have been working hard to promote the tiny house lifestyle across a number of platforms.