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Tiny House Progress: Outside Structure


More and more progress just keeps being made! We can't believe how fast things can come together! We can't wait to see it finished. It's so funny! Each step we take forward we beam with excitement! We can feel it getting closer and closer...but then when we start to discuss what steps are coming next we once again realize just how much work we still need to do and how much money we still need to accomplish it! These days we wonder if it will ever really become a reality or if it will forever be a dream. These are the days that I think about starting a GoFundMe page just to see if anyone would help make our dreams come true. But then I think about why that page was created and I think that what I'm looking to accomplish just doesn't fit what the page is trying to accomplish. 

But to move on to the more exciting stuff like pictures and the progress of the outside of the house being finished!



This time I decided I would actually label so areas so you could see what we are envisioning. The two pictures on the left are the front of our house. You can see the front door in both pictures. We are putting a large sliding glass door in. Since we don't plan on traveling with this house and because we are moving it to the middle of no where we aren't worried about privacy and have a HUGE glass door in the front. And the best part? Because my husband works in construction and installs doors and windows we get to keep all the mis-measures so guess how much our beautiful sliding glass door cost us? ZERO! NOTHING! Yep! We got a brand new, high quality door for FREE! And all our windows! 

So the first picture to the left you see the back wall to our bedroom and one of our windows. The second picture shows a closer shot of the front door through our livingroom to the boys room. Then the third picture is the back of the house. The kitchen window will be right over the sink so I can enjoy looking out over our land and looking for animals while I'm washing my dishes! Oh I can't wait! And the last picture is from our room, down the back of the house. Again we have a matching window in our room so we each have a window on our side of the bed. 



Now the inside view! The upper left is a picture of the boys room. The window hasn't been cut out yet but it will be a large window. The boys will have loft beds, one on each side of the window. We are going to make the beds the full length of the room so they can have a bookcase next to their bed so they always have books to read. 
The upper right picture is the back wall of our living room and part of our kitchen. The sink will go right below the window and the counter top will continue over about a foot, maybe two, I can't remember, after the window. Then we will have our couch along this wall. It's perfect because I will be able to comfortably nursing the new baby on the couch and be able to watch the boys play out the front sliding door. 
The bottom left has the bathroom and our bedroom. You can tell where they bathroom is because of the walls. I won't be able to describe how we are fitting everything into that space because I'm not quite sure how it's going to happen. Thankfully Hubby can visualize things better and he said it will be tight but everything will fit.
Last but not least our bedroom on the bottom right. This only shows one side which is actually my side. That's my window and next to the window in the corner will be my own little closet with shelves. We currently have a king size bed and we want to go down to a queen. It's still up for discussion is we can actually make that work with always having little ones coming in and cuddling through the night. We won't be able to get a new bed before we move. All our extra money has to go into the house and property so we are going to build cheap temporary closets that will be replaced once we have a new and smaller bed in the space.


And I can't forget to show the adorable pictures of the boys helping daddy work! Out in the hot sun (Oh how I miss the warmth now that it is cold out) with their shades drawing all over the place with pencils and chalk. Of course all their hard work was erased by rain because we didn't get the roof on in time to save it. At least they still have plenty of time to add new drawings that will be there forever once it's all dried in.


We keep working hard getting each step completed! Soon enough I'll be writing about us moving in and spending our first night in the tiny house and then our first year. I know that this process seems like it is going slow but I'm sure soon it will seem like it was forever when we were building it.

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