Been building a 20ft tiny house piece by piece over the last 6 years. It's that time of the year to get back to work on it. Currently finishing the staircase/ladder/closet/storage selves up the loft. Reclaimed rough sawn ash from the neighbors rejects. Tung oil finish.

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Been plinking away on a 20ft tiny house, today the bathroom and the stairs before that. Got the sink in, trim finished in the shower and doorway, rail for the sliding door. The wall paper is pages cut out of a draft horse book pasted on with several coats of polyurethane, the shower is solid surface from the trash, the trim is reclaimed pine from a friends house stained with iron acetate. Stairs/closet/storage shelves are reclaimed ash(?) Finished with tung oil. Still need to install the hand railing. Fingers crossed I can finish this project up before June.
image Testing out the railing for the stairs up to the loft in this 20ft tiny house I've been working on for the last several years. I typically have 3 months to work on it a few hours a day during the winter. I look forward to hosting many guests, students, apprentices, instructors and family in it here on the homestead once completed.
The tiny house custom RV is complete and earning revenue for the homestead! After seven and a half years, I've finally completed and put the tiny house RV I've been building into operation at the homestead. I started building it in November 2016 thinking I could complete the project in a year but I fell victim to the common homesteading practice of building many systems at once. Since my time and energy was split between so many projects at once, the time I had for working on the tiny house was quickly narrowed down to a few months in the winter. The days were short and the weather was challenging, plus I was learning many of the techniques from scratch, teaching myself as I went. This made for very slow progress. image However, there were some benefits of moving small and slow on the project. I was able to avoid making any critical/costly mistakes. I also had lots of time to souce cheap and unique reclaimed/recycled materials. Plus, I was able to totally customize and build each component to be unique, leading to it feeling like a work of art rather than a construction project. For now, I don't think I'll be taking on another project of this scale again anytime soon. But in the end, I taught myself all the skills to build a house from framing and roofing to plumbing and electrical, on down to the finishing techniques for trim. image The intellectual and experiencial capital was definitely worth having so much financial capital tied up in the project for so long. Before I know it, I will have earned it all back anyway leaving me with much more capital than I started with. Low time preference paying off. #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #carpentry #woodworking #tinyhouse View quoted note →