The Backyard Cottage Company - Tiny House News & Events Tiny house news and events Our Project House Build Update - A Tumbleweed Tiny House Company Cypress 20 The roof on our project house is looking great and we thought it was a timely opportunity to share some thoughts with you about the roof building experience. The front section of the roof and faux dormer certainly add curb appeal to Tumbleweed's Cypress design, but having worked through the process of putting it all together, it raised questions on whether the additional time taken to add redundant features and extra cost with purchasing required materials, versus topping your house with a standard 'gable roof', is actually worth the end result? From a space perspective, adding the sloping front roof reduces the overall room in the sleeping loft. Adding the slope and dormer, turns the gable roof into a type of 'intersecting roof', which itself means addition of 'hips' and 'valleys' to the roof structure and brings its own considerations to both function and cost.
devrais je vivre dans une tiny house? Italian Food Forever - Italian Recipes! The San Francisco Globe When people think of building their dream home from scratch, they probably are prepared to drop a lot of cash to make it a reality. For Steve Areen, however, all it took was $9,000 USD and six weeks to construct his dome abode in Thailand. In 2011, Areen chose to build his home on an organic mango farm in northeastern Thailand. Below are some photos that document the surprisingly quick process. Uploading... With help from his friends, they quickly made progress using a combination of cement blocks and clay bricks. The dome structure cost $6,000 to construct. An additional $3,000 was spent on details, which he lists as the "doors, screens, pond, upstairs structure, stonework and landscaping," in addition to the furnishings. The finished product is a reminder that less can definitely be more, and that a project doesn't need to be expensive to be beautiful.
Rich's Portable Cabins How to Build a Tiny House Video Series & Construction Guide Dan Louche at Tiny Home Builders has been busy building another tiny house and recording the process in an instructional video series. The videos are now available through his website and show how to build a tiny house step-by-step. Dan tells me: “The library is currently has 22 videos and over 3 hours of footage. Dan also gave me a peek at the videos themselves, and I’m happy to report they are very well done. In many ways this instructional video series delivers a lot of the same kind of information you might get from a tiny house building workshop. Dan also has offers a Tiny House Construction Guide and tiny house plans. So if you’re planning to build a tiny house, or building one now, you should take a peek at what Dan offers… you may find the answers to your building questions in his construction guide and video series. This is the kind of information the wider tiny house community has needed for years.
Raised Bed Gardening How To Guide For space efficiency and high yields, it’s hard to beat a vegetable garden grown in raised beds. Raised beds can improve production as well as save space, time, and money. They also are the perfect solution for dealing with difficult soils such as heavy clay. Raised gardening beds are higher than ground level, and consist of soil that’s mounded or surrounded by a frame to keep it in place. One reason raised beds are so effective for increasing efficiency and yields is that crops produce better because the soil in the beds is deep, loose, and fertile. Raised beds also save time and money because you need only dig, fertilize, and water the beds, not the paths. 35 Buildings So Bizarre That You Won't Believe They Exist Engineers and architects are becoming more and more bold with their designs nowadays, and new levels of creativity show up in their creations. The buildings shown below are some of the world’s most unique and unusual structures and show just how creative engineers can be. 1. The Basket Building (Ohio, USA) This is the 7-story corporate office which acts as the headquarters for Longaberger Basket Company, America’s famous basket manufacturer. The building is a 160 times larger replica of the Longaberger’s Medium Market Basket and is one of the landmarks of the Ohio skyline. 2. The world’s first building in motion is designed by Dr. 3. At the time conception the building’s design was considered very controversial, but Czech president Václav Havel remained adamant and hoped the building would become a center of cultural activity. 4. This visitor attraction consists of biomes that house plants from all over the world. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
Tiny Homes l Energy Efficiency Store Shockingly Simple Electrical Electrical for tiny houses Ebook. Learn More This Ebook walks you through everything you need to know about wiring your tiny house. We start with the basic principle, different components, how to wire panels, boxes, outlets, lights and more. It shows you how to design and size your electrical system for a tiny house including on the grid and off the grid options. The book has 80 pages of content including detailed diagrams and real life photos of wiring done in tiny houses. The New Retirement Retiring in a tiny house Ebook. The New Retirement is an ebook that looks at an alternative to traditional retirement. Cracking The Code Building Codes for tiny houses Ebook. This guide to building codes & zoning for tiny houses is designed to help you logically navigate all the red tape when it comes to housing. Tiny House Floor Plan Kit A cut and paste kit to design your own tiny house. Design your own tiny house with this floor plan kit.
How to Make a Square Foot Garden | Alberta Home Gardening I’d like to introduce you to a new way of gardening. It’s called square foot gardening. I planted my first square foot garden last year and I’m hooked. Most gardens are planted in long rows separated by three foot aisles. Using the square foot gardening method, you divide a 4′ x 4′ box into sixteen 1 foot square gardens. #1. It doesn’t matter what kind of soil you have, because you won’t be using it. Peat MossCompostVermiculite Just mix these three ingredients in equal proportions and you have the finest soil you could imagine. #2. Yup, that’s right. #3. Your square foot garden takes up only 20% of the space required by a traditional garden. #4. I just built two square foot gardens this spring and here were my costs: Lumber: Free (I used scrap)Vermiculite: $20Peat Moss: $8Compost: $20 Total: $48 for two – $24 each. Of course with your own lumber and your own compost, you could cut that cost down to $14 each. Required Materials Building the Square Foot Garden And there you have it.
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