This past Saturday I awoke in Seattle to heavy clouds. I knew I was going out to the property alone that day and was hoping for a good stretch of Spring weather for the day…. Yeah right?...
In this episode of Tiny Yellow House Derek “Deek” Diedricksen highlights the Gypsy Junker, a micro house made from reclaimed and recycled junk. It features a waste vegetable oil heater, wine bottle windows, sleeping space for 2...
Very interesting, I need to find out more about wood-fired water heaters. Let me know if you have any information on them. This company makes the coils you can add to your wood stove to heat water....
Here’s my version of a simple yet secure cabin. The idea came from Casey Brown an architect in Australia. His is all metal but a more doable version in my eyes would be made of wood. To...
We don’t have any well or running water on the property but being on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, we have a ton of …. You guessed it. Rain! We already catch rain off half of...
This is the foundation that our Small cabin from Penny Pincher Barn Company will go on. We ordered the Owl’s Clover kit. It’s a 200 square foot mini-cabin kit. The 4×8 bump out make it exactly 200...
Andy milling us some 14′ 4×8″ beams for our small cabin foundation. He milled 3 of them for us out of a medium sized tree. Looking at the tree I only thought there was 1 beam in...
Update: I’ve added our 4×8′ bump out to the foundation model to show how it will tie in. We’re going to use existing 4x8x8′ beams from the yurt foundation. The brown posts will be 4×4 pressure treated...
On January of 2009 we got a call from our neighbor that our yurt had collapsed under the heavy snow. Needless to say we were really bummed! There was not much we could do at that point....
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