Our house finally truly looks and feels like a home, rather than a construction site. And we’ve been spending more and more time in it, since a little over a week from now we will take it on the road to Oregon and be living in it full time! We’ve really been enjoying our little home and look forward to plenty more time in it.
We recently had a wonderful housewarming/going away/just married party in Keene! We towed the house to a park, and spent the summery day visiting with friends and family from near and far. Thank you so much to the many lovely people in our lives who showed up to support us, it was so nice!! Folks really enjoyed the “self-guided” tour of the tiny house, complete with explanation notes stuck all around. Leading up to the housewarming we were very motivated to get the house in shape and looking homey, which I think we pulled off well even though it’s not fully lived in yet. The photos here show what projects we’ve worked on the for the past couple weeks, but to really see the full effect you’ve got to watch the house tour video that my sister Amy made- you’ll be amazed!
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Wish us luck as we get the house all prepped to hit the open road next week, and head northwest-ward!!
It was just over a year ago when we blogged about meeting our flatbed trailer, the foundation of our tiny home. Now we have a nearly ‘finished’ (whatever that means…) house that is roadworthy. Last week we said goodbye to our rented apartment in Middlebury, Vermont and took the tiny house on the road. We aren’t going too far yet – for the month of July we are living in Keene, New Hampshire to finish working on the house and bid farewell before our big trip/move out to Eugene, Oregon in August.
So last Tuesday we hooked the tiny house up to our Dodge 3500 dually truck, complete with a new weight distributing hitch, and headed down the road from Middlebury to Keene. Tensions were high since we had never pulled the house ourselves on such a trek (100+ miles), and we weren’t exactly sure how the truck would handle it. After a late night of packing up our apartment and loading up the house, we awoke early and hit the road at 5:30am (we wanted to avoid traffic as much as possible). Jeremy piloted the truck with house in tow, and I followed with the car. From my view, Jeremy handled the house like a pro and the house cruised along the road. Part of the way through the journey Jeremy pulled off into a Vermont field, and we enjoyed the beautiful summer morning while eating breakfast on our porch. One passerby honked at us in excitement. By 9:30am, the house was safely parked in Keene at its new temporary home in a friend’s yard. We were extremely relieved that we’d made it without a hitch! Thinking ahead to our cross country trip, there are certainly still worries since it is a big undertaking, but it feels manageable.
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Since the move, the main build progress we’ve made on the house has been cedar shingle siding! It’s been months since we shingled, but we still have a few more areas to finish up and we got back into the swing of it. The shingles progress feels slow going, but we are getting there and the house is looking much better for it – especially our front porch/door wall, which is now shingled and has a cute porch light. There are several more things on the house to do list- mostly inside but also outside- which we’re aiming to complete to make the house livable for when we head west come early August. When the to do list feels overwhelming, we can look back to where we were a year ago and feel good about what we’ve created from that bare flatbed trailer.
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