Who lives in a "tiny house"?

I started on Vit. D for my cabin fever, after 5 days I feel much better.

Thank you for all your kind words. Here's an article posted on Tiny House Blog a few years ago. We built the cottage in 2006 and my daughter and son-in-law now live in the home. They have made some awesome decorating additions so I need to take some updated interior photos.

http://tinyhouseblog.com/yourstory/l...the-prairie-2/

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Add thermal mass around the stove to make it so that the heat is soaked up and then it will be more efficient. We have a tiny wood stove in the middle of our tiny cottage. We burn the wood stove at full bore. The heat goes into the masonry around the stove and soaks into the masonry of our cottage so it is stored. This way we only burn 0.75 cord of wood a year even though we live in Zone 3 in the northern mountains of Vermont (windy). Masonry around the stove makes a big difference. Doesn't take huge amounts but huge amounts are even better.

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Like Highlands, we added mass around our BlazeKing wood stove. I've enclosed a photo I took after finishing the stone work.

We've heated our 2,600 square foot ranch this very cold midwest winter. We don't run the stove "full bore" as it tends to send too much heat up the chimney. We instead use the catalyst of the BlazeKing to yield high stovetop heat while maintaining a lower flue temperature.

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Nice, jhambley Thanks for the photo, helps me a lot to be able to see it.

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Thank you all for posting pictures and information. All very enlightening.

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Thanks for sharing that link.

Thats the type of cabin I dream about should we ever get a chunk vacation land out in the woods somewhere.

I lived for a year in 36 sq ft area of a tent...in Iraq. Then I shared a 100 sq ft area of an out building with 3 other soldiers in Afghanistan. Now I am back home to my 2,700 sq ft house...FREEDOM! You guys can have the cramped spaces...LOL!

Certainly understandable. Welcome home and thank you for all that dedication. You are very appreciated.

You've been there a couple of years now - how has the homestead evolved? Have you built other buildings for animals and machinery? Planted trees, have a garden laid out? Do you have the asparagus and rhubarb planted? What about horseradish.
You make me feel like all is right with the world.

Buckeye Brian Thank you serving our country and welcome home.

Thank you all for sharing your pic and stories of your tiny homes. I am getting ready to redo a 8x16 trailer into a tiny home.

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Nothing worth doing happens over night. Since we built the cottage in 2006 we have increased our Hereford cattle herd and purchased an additional 80 acres. We sold our house in the city last fall and built a ranch home on the 80. We have almost completed the house except for the final trim and interior doors. You can see the details of our "Barn" home under the thread "Can we talk Barn Homes, or Barndominiums?"

A few other accomplishments:

- Have added honey bees
- Have added chickens
- Have added hogs
- Built cattle working facilities
- Starting our 8th year in the cattle business
- Have built and stocked two ponds
- Have built many hundreds of feet of swales
- Completed Geoff Lawton's PDC

In 2014:

- Will plant our first garden (zone 1)
- Will begin our initial plantings for a food forest

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Boy you sure have a knack for building. I have also been following that barn thread and thought you looked familiar. Very good job and also good goals.

I currently live in at 525 sqft cabin with a screen porch but just purchased 40 acres with a 20x24 (480sqft) cabin on it that we plan to live in. It has a loft that we will probably for guest sleeping. It's just two of us and two medium/large size dogs. There is plenty of room.

do you have any photos of either place that you'd be willing to share?

Sounds very good.

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Here's the new one! I dont' have any pictures of the one I live in now.

The only pictures I have inside are blurry but it needs some TLC anyway. I plan on starting a blog about our remodel which will show lots of pictures!

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Oh me, I need a bib, cause I am drooling.

Trees, cabin with BIG front porch. Excellent! and best wishes for a lot of good porch sitting there.

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I'm happy you guys are all happy - I hate mine. Flat out hate it. We've a bit less than 450 Sq feet for a family of four and it is not working out for this family.

I dream, daily, of more space. We're planning on building a bigger place, and when we do, it will take great restraint for me to not light this one up and dance while it burns.

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We lived in a 16 X 24 with a small sleep loft for a few years until husband got transferred. We have missed it a lot for several reasons.
1. We were always warm with a small wood stove
2. Easy to cool in summer by opening windows
3. Way back in the trees
4. Always quiet
5. We could sit on the deck and listen to all kinds of wildlife
6. Once had a bear in our drive (LOL) seriously
7. Solar electricity
8. Wood heat
9. Antenna TV for the news
10. We could hang out outside in our pjs
11. Our livestock did well
12. Our pets loved the freedom and we didn't have to worrry about neighbors being annoyed by our dogs.

Basically we didn't miss a thing and had everything we needed and pretty much wanted.

That's was out very tiny house we lived in. Finally found a picture. One floor. 12 feet by 18 feet if I remember right. Deck was almost big as the house!

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