I am finally getting around to posting our progress! This week has been busy, as usual, and getting home after 8pm I’ve been too lazy to post anything…. So, this will be a huge conglomerate post on what we’ve been working on lately in finishing up the Tiny House:
Painting of the Interior
Front Porch / Deck
Millwork / Casework / Cabinetry
Interior Stairs
First, we have the interior painted. We started rolling it, but that took forever, so Shane sprayed it out. We used Sherwin Williams “Alabaster” in an eggshell finish.
We’re plugging away on construction of our Tiny House. We’ve had the plumber out installing propane and water lines. Our mechanic is fixing up the trailer. And we’ve installed windows, flashing, window trim and started painting the exterior trim.
Shane did a video of how to properly install window flashing:
Here are some photos of installing window trim and painting the exterior trim:
Here’s our plumber and mechanic working on the Tiny House:
It’s surprising how even though the house is super small, it still takes a lot of time to get everything installed. Building on a trailer platform adds some complexities.
Shane built a box for the water heater. It’s located outside the kitchen, right between the kitchen sink and the shower, our two hot water needs.
It comes into the kitchen on the interior but we’ll build cabinetry around it.
We’re using a Rheem on-demand gas/propane exterior water heater:
Our propane tanks are on the front tongue of the gooseneck / trailer hitch. The piping runs back to the water heater and propane heater via an exterior channel we built under the floor platform. This channel will be closed in once we get piping / plumbing installed.
Okay, off to the shop to do more painting! We should be getting our metal roofing in this week, as well as scheduling the spray foam insulation for the exterior walls and roof. We’ll keep you posted!
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.
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