building the dream.
Why Tiny? Clothesline Tiny Homes will strive to have a small footprint on our natural environment, will allow us to live wherever we want, paying much less money for rent / mortgage and utilities, and will be a fun adventure where we can grow and learn to live with less stuff and enjoy our beautiful world much more!
We started designing it in February of 2012, bought the trailer platform February 25th, and started building February 27th.
2-1/2 months later we finished building and moved into our tiny house mid-May 2012 and lived in it full time through November 2013.
After 18 months we decided it was too small, and would make a better guest house! So now we are building a small house (1,000 SF) DEBT FREE in Southern Colorado, where the tiny house will be a lovely guest cottage.
We both have years of experience designing and building but we thought the best way to learn about the intricacies of a Tiny House would be to design and build one for ourselves.
take care,
Carrie {and Shane}
Clothesline Tiny Homes 
Very nice!
Even though I live in Arizona, I had not heard of your adventure. I actually saw this page through that article as it was picked up by Fark.com. Very cool stuff. My wife and I keep looking at this but with kids in school, we’re not sure it would be practical for us. Maybe when the kids are in college. 🙂
I love your house. Just one thing, looks at your unique vistors for your stats, not hits. A hit is every time any image or file is accessed by spiders, bots or search engines on a page it is called a hit. Unique visitors are real people. I am sure your numbers will shoot up again today since the Daily Mail featured your same article.. Congratulations. Your little mart looks really cute too.
This is so cool- I’m a long time fan of Carrie & Shane’s design, efficiency and blog!! Have loved following the process and discussion of tiny living- thanks for another great article/post!