Tiny New Year

Happy New Year! We are very excited that 2015 is the year we will get to move into our tiny home. We hope that all your tiny and huge dreams come true this year.

We had lovely holidays, including a visit to the tiny house from my mom (Ida) and sister (Amy). Tiny ladies in a tiny house!

Work on the interior of the house has been somewhat slow (we can partly blame it on the holidays), but steady. We finally turned our walls from OSB (oriented strand board) brown to white, by priming all the walls. This really brightened up the house. We put on two coats of primer, and did our best to coat all the nooks and crannies of the OSB. This will make a suitable surface for paintable wallpaper liner, which we’ve been researching and will apply soon. Then we can either cover that with layers of paint (some kind of off-white), or apply another layer of wallpaper to really make sure the OSB texture doesn’t show through.

Here’s an experiment with different wallpaper liners, and one paint color. We like the name of the paint- ‘cream puff’ (yum!)- but it’s too peachy/creamy for our taste so we’ll keep shopping:

Next we built a storage shelf above the ERV (energy recovery ventilator), to maximize the space. And then we put up an outer wall on the ERV frame, and primed this wall.

Lastly we worked on insulating and boxing in the trailer wheel wells, which stick into the house a few inches. We built a wood frame around the wheel well, and then filled in the whole area with foam to insulate it. The last step will be to attach a top to this ‘box’, likely some plywood.

While each step of the building process feels kind of exciting when we’re actually making it happen, it may sound or look a bit boring when we show it here… But don’t worry, once we get to things soon like building the sleeping loft, installing tongue and groove wood on the ceiling, etc. you’ll really see some exciting changes to the house!