Our cedar journey began on the edge of Happy Hollow woods, in Trev Smith’s  workshop.  He showed us his solar kiln, where we saw walnut, poplar, locust, cedar and many other varieties of neatly stacked roughly sawn boards. After what seemed like an hour of making our way through a whole shed full of purple, … More Cedar Rafters

Once again our buddy Verbeck got distracted from fixing his car by the Caravan. He came in and just rocked the sheathing process into action like he tends to do. We applied the sheathing in a way we decided would add the most sheer strength to the structure and we used 3/8 in plywood and … More Sheathing – Birth of the Caravan

Our plans came to life when went to visit our good buddies Derek and Holly a couple of hours away from us. They had designed and built their own Tiny House and are living in it now with their cutie baby, Roman. Derek has been in the building industry for a while with his family’s business, Uhler&Company, … More Framing and Raising the Walls

…and now, an appropriately long post about the floor of tiny house… Stevie and I had no significant experience in construction; he built a shoe rack and I helped build a deck 6 years ago. Despite this many others before us remind us that it is possible and even fun to learn how to build … More Starting from the bottom

It would only be appropriate to make our first post about the trailer. However this post won’t be a simple recounting of going out and buying a trailer full of smiling pictures of us holding our license plate and blah blah blah. It will be a post about the first mistake. We set out on … More Our naked trailer