our gain? Well, we've actually gotten bigger over the last few years as our family has grown. We have gone from 450 up to 1400. 450 was nice for 2 adults and...
It all goes back to a simple truth... "A House is not not always a Home but a Home is always a Home" Over scaled Houses does not make for a happy Home and a...
Sherman et al - I've added a PDF to the post, so you can now zoom that and read all the fine captions. Bob - Now you're going to make me do a site plan, aren't...
These are basically a variation of a yurt. I had a yurt for a period of time, and I can say a few things about this. My biggest memory of having a yurt was...
... I just realized that I am in a room where I don't have to argue for small living! No one has called me crazy yet. Not that I'm not and you won't eventually...
Gave up: - 500 square feet (went from 1100 to less than 600) - Two bedrooms - A bunch of stuff I didn't need anyway - A $1,400-a-month mortgage payment (now...
Sarah, You certainly don't need to make a site plan, especially just for us. My main question was whether this plan was ideas for maybe, someday, someplace,...
I don't understand the "grey water cistern" in your plans. I thought that it is a bad idea to store grey water because it turns into black water in storage. ...
Sarah, Your plan looks interesting. A few thoughts... In my own mind I really like the large (for two) bath and shower concept... however, I can give that up...
Deb, What sort of insulating material did you put in your trailer? Your utility bills are awesome... my standard RV didn't perform as well in less extreme...
John I looked at your house on your website. Very nice. In fact, it looks very nice and liveable I'm relatively new to the small house society, but am...
Hi Heidi, ... It started by insulating the undercarriage with 6" of fibreglass and enclosing it completely with aluminum. The walls were the standard (awful) R...
Thanks Deb! I was thinking along those same lines for myself... but my move into an RV not a pre-planned program. I had intended to use the foil and insulated...
Saw the recent post about elastothermic coating painted on the roof of a trailer dropping the trailer temp 20 degrees - that's not the first I've heard of...
Bob & Fred - I've bought a couple of books from Oasis Designs, and they detail a cistern-delayed filtration system for greywater - that's what you see noted on...
Hi Sarah, ... I've read that it gives as good results on a regular roof. It also keeps you warmer in the winter. They are advertising just such a product in a...
Sarah, I've used white elastomeric coatings on the flat roof of my home here in AZ. When used with the blue elastomeric primer it MIGHT bridge/waterproof seams...
Hi Sarah and Frank, ... waterproof ... You bed a 4" wide fibreglass tape into a priming coat over seams, and then roll extra coats over the edge. We plan to...
Frank - rFoil(bubble sort) is on my list, too, even though talking my husband into helping me do it is going to be a trick, since our attic is hard to...
Dear Sarah, That is not a crazy idea at all. My first house (small mobile) which we cheerfully refered to as the "turd" because it was painted chocolate brown...
My brother used a similar product to *paint* his asbestos sided house, which are a lot like asphalt shingles. The idea was to seal it off and it kept what was...
Hello. I am thinking of building a 1000 sq ft. house and was wondering if ya'll might be able to offer some advice. From what I have read, most of you live in...
I was at Borders books store a couple of nights ago and they had a lot of picture books on small spaces, every one I looked at had some innovative ideas. I...
It strikes me as funny when 1000 square feet is considered small for 3 people. 3 people take up like 30 square feet. The rest is stuff. I know, because I live...
Reminds me of my grandparents' Craftsman style house that they built in a small town in South Dakota about 1910. I loved it.My grandfather was Norwegian and...
In Sarah Susanka books "Not So Big House" she outlined a process to list each room in your house, what you do and how much time you spend in each room. Be ...
Saw this article in the Sacramento Bee recently. Thought it might be of interest. http://dwb.sacbee.com/24hour/real_estate/story/3608124p-12895153c.html ...
