coffeewitholiver
Active member
Hello ~
I've been reading back posts of Bob's blog for days now, and he just mentioned this forum, so here I am. :shy: I've seen familiar names in his comment section there, which is sorta great. It makes me feel a part of a community, although I'm sure they have no idea who I am!
My living space is most likely a little different from most here. If you are interested, settle in for my little story.
I started building a tiny home (stick built home on a trailer bed in my case) years ago. I started thinking about doing this way before "Tiny Homes" became a thing. The build went slowly, I learned a lot. I did most of it myself, which made it impossible to do some things as well as I wanted to, but gave me a great deal of satisfaction overall. The one thing I feel I did so well was to build a "cool roof". That sucker took a lot of research and time and work and money, but it turned out extremely well. That roof is my one regret, that I ended up having to abandon the house and couldn't take that roof with me. See, I did the build on my mother's property, living in a truckbed camper on supports nearby, and took care of her needs as best I could for a few years. When she passed away last year, and I found out her house and land was completely upside-down (plus other issues) and I wouldn't be able to keep it, I had to make a fast decision: to hopefully finish the tiny house in time (without the money necessary to do it right), or to abandon it and do something else. I chose something else.
Luckily, I'd purchased a very heavy duty truck to pull the Tiny House. It's a 1985 Ford F350 dually diesel 4x4 with a large flatbed. Given my choices of living in an apartment (which with my pets plus my mother's, would be difficult to find) and being stuck probably for the rest of my life, or figuring out a way to NOT be stuck, I finally realized I could build an even tinier home on the bed of the truck. So, I did. The story is on my blog if you want to know details of how I funded it, what I used, and how I did it. Needless to say, it was a whole lot easier to build this space than the relatively huge trailer house. I was able to use my experiences on the other build to do better, faster work this time. As of now, it's very nearly complete.
I still have lots of decisions to make for things like water storage and how to handle water, the toilet solution, and if I should get a freezer, but I could live it as it stands right now. I do have until the end of December to finish up though, so I *should* be able to finish it completely before hitting the road. I'd post pictures, but I don't seem to be able to. I'll try to do so when I figure out how, hehe.
Hopefully this wasn't too boring!
I've been reading back posts of Bob's blog for days now, and he just mentioned this forum, so here I am. :shy: I've seen familiar names in his comment section there, which is sorta great. It makes me feel a part of a community, although I'm sure they have no idea who I am!
My living space is most likely a little different from most here. If you are interested, settle in for my little story.
I started building a tiny home (stick built home on a trailer bed in my case) years ago. I started thinking about doing this way before "Tiny Homes" became a thing. The build went slowly, I learned a lot. I did most of it myself, which made it impossible to do some things as well as I wanted to, but gave me a great deal of satisfaction overall. The one thing I feel I did so well was to build a "cool roof". That sucker took a lot of research and time and work and money, but it turned out extremely well. That roof is my one regret, that I ended up having to abandon the house and couldn't take that roof with me. See, I did the build on my mother's property, living in a truckbed camper on supports nearby, and took care of her needs as best I could for a few years. When she passed away last year, and I found out her house and land was completely upside-down (plus other issues) and I wouldn't be able to keep it, I had to make a fast decision: to hopefully finish the tiny house in time (without the money necessary to do it right), or to abandon it and do something else. I chose something else.
Luckily, I'd purchased a very heavy duty truck to pull the Tiny House. It's a 1985 Ford F350 dually diesel 4x4 with a large flatbed. Given my choices of living in an apartment (which with my pets plus my mother's, would be difficult to find) and being stuck probably for the rest of my life, or figuring out a way to NOT be stuck, I finally realized I could build an even tinier home on the bed of the truck. So, I did. The story is on my blog if you want to know details of how I funded it, what I used, and how I did it. Needless to say, it was a whole lot easier to build this space than the relatively huge trailer house. I was able to use my experiences on the other build to do better, faster work this time. As of now, it's very nearly complete.
I still have lots of decisions to make for things like water storage and how to handle water, the toilet solution, and if I should get a freezer, but I could live it as it stands right now. I do have until the end of December to finish up though, so I *should* be able to finish it completely before hitting the road. I'd post pictures, but I don't seem to be able to. I'll try to do so when I figure out how, hehe.
Hopefully this wasn't too boring!
