tiny house construction & living
Add some trim & some grout and presto, the hearth is done! Well, technically, I still need to sand off the grout from the trim and then apply some wood finish to the trim, but the hearth part of the hearth is done. The transformative power of grout never ceases to amaze me. Somehow filling … Continue reading Hearth, Heat, and Handrail
To tile the hearth area, and to be sure my tiles wouldn’t drift past the reference line that went around the corner, I thought it prudent to install the fractional tiles at the bottom of the vertical faces, perfectly at the line, then let their cement set, before proceeding with the corresponding vertical faces. Further, … Continue reading Tiles, Blocks, and a Catheter?
Spring is here! Or close enough, anyhow. The cold weather has let up and construction season is open! Priority is getting the kitchen done, including all the utility hookups, so I can cross a few things off the list. Before I can work on the kitchen, though, I need to finish the installation of the … Continue reading Home is Where the Hearth is!
Well, at least it’s not Albuquerque. What’s in Baltimore? I mean, besides all the things that belong in Baltimore? That parcel from Sketch-E-Commerce supposedly containing the hard-to-find vent kit for that furnace I wanted to use in the HomeBox. Why Baltimore? Blind Bambi! (No-eyed-deer). What I do know is my order clearly specified my correct … Continue reading Baltimore?
It’s still a few weeks ahead of construction season, but I’m getting ready! Next up in the design process is… figuring out where to put the furnace and laying out the kitchen. The tricky bit about the furnace is that it needs to be against an exterior wall, like the water heater, for the same … Continue reading Kitchen Sketch & Loft Partition
Every winter since I started this project, I say to myself — and others — that I’ll spend the winter designing and planning so I’m ready to just jump right into construction when the season opens again in the spring. There has been some of that, for sure, but mostly I’ve been spending the winter … Continue reading Agrigeekery
In case you missed it – this year, 2021, is the one where I finish the HomeBox, have it driven (no way this is going to be the first thing I ever tow!) to the homestead site, and actually live in it! Needless to say, there’s some work ahead! It’s not as much as you … Continue reading Home Stretch
When I had the HomeBox insulated with closed cell spray foam, the guys who did it said “this thing will be so cozy, you’ll be able to keep it warm with a birthday candle”. In the winter that followed, there was neither heat, a thermometer, nor a birthday candle in the place, so I had … Continue reading Birthday Candle
While taking a nice break from HomeBox design & construction, I’ve not been totally idle in terms of homestead-related activity. Most recently, I have just completed the design for the Haulable Horizontal Honeybee Hive House. What’s a Hive House? It’s a little house with bee hives in it. My 5H is was inspired by the … Continue reading 5H
Winter is fast upon us and I expect today to be the last workday on the HomeBox until spring of 2021. There will be plenty of thinking and designing and such between now and then, but probably no building. What about those drawers? They may just sit and wait. Maybe if there’s a day of … Continue reading End of Season 2020