Posted on 07/20/2010 2:32:08 PM PDT by roostercogburn
Those little houses were cute... but those two guys could not have been any gayer if they were auditioning for a sitcom role.
Turns out it is a trailer - we have video blocked on our computer part of the day, so I only saw the text.
If you have ample, safe outside space, as you do in a decent RV park, there’s no reason you can’t just cook, wash, and sleep in your trailer, without needing more room. I figure the same principle applied when a family of 15 lived in a log cabin: they did everything humanly possible outside.
Bueno, amigo! My Anoreth is talking about getting a boat and hitting the same ports when she gets out of the Coast Guard.
Looks like the perfect deer camp.
That’s what I was thinking, too. What a great cabin.
My sister just called yesterday to tell me about these homes. There are larger more liveable models available. I like the Whidbey myself.
http://www.smallhousestyle.com/2008/09/09/jay-shafer-and-the-tumbleweed-tiny-house-company/
We stopped watching TV eight or nine years ago as well. After 4-5 years of not watching, I watched one weekend in a cabin rental. Never had seen any of the commercials before. Didn’t even know what some of the products were. Felt like Rip van Winkle.
If you are handy, can puzzle out basic electrical and mechanical problems, you can pick up a ....ahem...’beater’ boat for less than fair used car. Way under ten grand.
Charts? They are often out of date anyways, you shouldn’t trust them too much anyhow, so buy used, follow the yachts/fishing boats in. ( Search Ebay/ABEBooks )
Used GPS’s with coastal marine charts, go for under 40$
Marine stove? Naw, Wal-Mart camping stove.
Custom canvas? Naw, Home-Depot tarps, cut, contact cemented and poly roped edges with a package of hammer on grommets. Home Depot, Lowes, Ace is great.
Need a custom Bimini frame? Borrow a tube bender from a electrician and buy electrical conduit, and make it your self. Material cost? 40$
Fridge systems? Systems? We don’t need no stink’n systems! Cooler, a bag of ice, couple of pieces of foam board on top....stuff stays ‘safe’ for near a week if undisturbed. Eat simple, save money to use to go out when you hit port.
Buy right off passing fishermen. A lot of guys are just fishing to fish/get out of the house, and will sell you what would cost you 20$ in a market, for 5$, or a couple of ice cold beers.
Craigslist for used marine stuff... There is more used, serviceable stuff cluttering America’s garages, basements, storage units than can ever be used.
Be patient, think out side the box, be cheap.
In fact, this guy owns a thriving business that makes these little houses. How does he spread out and draw those blueprints?
Something is not right here.
He says that this is not his first house. Wonder if he has lots of storage, a business where he stores his books and reference material or if he has a bunch of little houses.
Nice, but there is more to this story.
There are neighborhoods with hundred year old houses, that were the McMansions of thier day, and now are cut up into 8-12 apartments. There were at least 6 McManshion boom/bust cycles,going back to the 1880’s.
When it will happen, I don’t know, maybe not for a hundred years, we will see the fiat, government paper money systems be busted out.
There is no institution, world wide, that robs and steals by various methods like taxation and inflation as much as government. It/they know that. Some of us know that. When like a huge, multi-billion flock of marsh starlings the average world peon realizes that, they/us/we will turn on a dime. The upset will make the Russian Revolution look like kid’s play.
Prints? Don’t need no stink’n prints! A good house framer can frame up a house just fine from cocktail napkin sketches. The Plumbers and electricians don’t care, nor the follow on trades. They work from what they got to work.
In the old days, it was common for someone who wanted a house framed up, to take his hired carpenter to a house he liked and say, ‘build me that one.’
bump
Thanks - I’m FReepmailing this post to Anoreth, so she can see it when they reach port.
Lots to think about. Thanks!
That should be the size of your gun safe, not your house.
Seems these smaller living structures are making themselves known in several places..... Interesting idea for those that feel comfortable in a small space.
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