tiny house
Finding out people think my boxes are cheap has really deflated me and slowed me on production. Mostly I've been knitting instead. I still like making them and there's 2 ready for painting so I don't know. I just listed my whole koi kit and kaboodle on kijiji in request to trade a flatbed trailer, that'll be interesting. Probably won't get any hits because I put a price of two grand on there. Around these parts anything over $100 better drive you across town. But the cash isn't as attractive as the trailer since a trailer new would cost more than that. A used trailer could just turn up.
I wonder if we can build our tiny house to be set on jacks and get the trailer out as a functioning flat bed from underneath or would that fuck up it's RV status? you know, like they do with those pickup truck add-ons. A flatbed happens to be a fantastic thing to own when you have a smart car and scooters!
I'll also have to unload the rest of the smart car out back. I've tried hard to get Dan to agree and he puts me off "one more season" every time. I suppose if we trade out the pond this season I could just load the old parts car up and truck it to a junkyard? I dunno. I figure probably can get someone to cart it away within a week if I give it away free. I'd rather get a couple hundred bucks. Still, if the trailer deal happens, I want it out of the way!
Still, posting my first ad on kijiji in ages has me all nervous. I'm also wondering still how in heck I should learn the cost of shipping the artwork and antiques I need to put on there. I would so totally use a local service who'd provide that for a percentage, but there isn't one, never has been. Not so far as I know. Well there's all winter to chew on and find courage to do little things and five years yet to do it all, so I don't need to find all the answers, just make a step in the right direction frequently. Posting the pond and deciding on building a tiny house is one such. Dan likes the idea of building ourselves a tiny house too. That way we're more able to find accommodations on the coast, at a trailer park or campsite if nothing else, and we'll retail our valued single home lifestyle. I'm as intolerant of other people's living noises as I am loud in my own living noises. Well. Dan's loud, our pets are loud, I'm loud when they get me agitated. I spend the better part of my time silent and typing, reading, watching something quiet on a monitor, knitting, etc. I prefer to be quiet and be in quiet.
Also, building a tiny house in the backyard means we can move into it before we move out of this one, and customize it to suit. We can choose what stuff comes into our house and what doesn't, for instance.
I could keep my favorite chandelier... OMG I will!!!! I will sell the antique milk glass lamp set on ebay but the crystal chandelier and the matching sconces in storage will definitely work in a tiny house.
I picture a house with a central area and two end lofts, and in the central area above the main entry and great room area, there can go the chandelier. The sconces can flank the great room or be at opposite ends or something, perhaps loft task light at bed head. LED strip lighting can serve the rest of the place as its cheap, configureable, discrete, multicoloured, I've got a shitload already, and it uses very little power. The main chandelier, at 35watts, will be the major power draw.
Oh I'm inspired, going to turn on my pc and try to create it in a drawing or 3d app!
I wonder if we can build our tiny house to be set on jacks and get the trailer out as a functioning flat bed from underneath or would that fuck up it's RV status? you know, like they do with those pickup truck add-ons. A flatbed happens to be a fantastic thing to own when you have a smart car and scooters!
I'll also have to unload the rest of the smart car out back. I've tried hard to get Dan to agree and he puts me off "one more season" every time. I suppose if we trade out the pond this season I could just load the old parts car up and truck it to a junkyard? I dunno. I figure probably can get someone to cart it away within a week if I give it away free. I'd rather get a couple hundred bucks. Still, if the trailer deal happens, I want it out of the way!
Still, posting my first ad on kijiji in ages has me all nervous. I'm also wondering still how in heck I should learn the cost of shipping the artwork and antiques I need to put on there. I would so totally use a local service who'd provide that for a percentage, but there isn't one, never has been. Not so far as I know. Well there's all winter to chew on and find courage to do little things and five years yet to do it all, so I don't need to find all the answers, just make a step in the right direction frequently. Posting the pond and deciding on building a tiny house is one such. Dan likes the idea of building ourselves a tiny house too. That way we're more able to find accommodations on the coast, at a trailer park or campsite if nothing else, and we'll retail our valued single home lifestyle. I'm as intolerant of other people's living noises as I am loud in my own living noises. Well. Dan's loud, our pets are loud, I'm loud when they get me agitated. I spend the better part of my time silent and typing, reading, watching something quiet on a monitor, knitting, etc. I prefer to be quiet and be in quiet.
Also, building a tiny house in the backyard means we can move into it before we move out of this one, and customize it to suit. We can choose what stuff comes into our house and what doesn't, for instance.
I could keep my favorite chandelier... OMG I will!!!! I will sell the antique milk glass lamp set on ebay but the crystal chandelier and the matching sconces in storage will definitely work in a tiny house.
I picture a house with a central area and two end lofts, and in the central area above the main entry and great room area, there can go the chandelier. The sconces can flank the great room or be at opposite ends or something, perhaps loft task light at bed head. LED strip lighting can serve the rest of the place as its cheap, configureable, discrete, multicoloured, I've got a shitload already, and it uses very little power. The main chandelier, at 35watts, will be the major power draw.
Oh I'm inspired, going to turn on my pc and try to create it in a drawing or 3d app!