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My Tiny House in Masking Tape

Standing in the Living Room

While on vacation in Maine last month I decided to try my tiny house floor plan on for size, inspired by Alek Lisefski’s tiny-project blog. Here’s the result, in photo form. Unfortunately I didn’t have a paved surface to work on, but I managed to make do with the front lawn. Not quite up to par with Alek’s work, however :) The… View More

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Next Steps

Future site of ProcessHouse?

Well, it’s official–Autumn is upon us. As I’m using these crisp, cool fall days to wrap up some smaller projects around my parent’s house (good practice for what’s to come), I’m starting to think about how to best spend the next 6 months to be ready to start construction on the tiny house come Spring/Summer 2015. Here’s a partial list of what I’m going to be working on over the… View More

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Roof pitch and floating stairs

Increased roof pitch, shorter height in front

June 2016 Update: The design I am building has changed once again and will be entirely different from the one pictured here. I’m keeping the new design under wraps for now–hopefully you will enjoy seeing it revealed as it is built! I’m happy to report that I put the finishing touches on my first “legit” construction project last weekend, finishing up a small deck expansion… View More

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Tiny House Loft (Re)design

June 2016 Update: The design I am building has changed once again and will be entirely different from the one pictured here. I’m keeping the new design under wraps for now–hopefully you will enjoy seeing it revealed as it is built! Ok, so let me be honest: the loft in my tiny house has always been a bit of an afterthought. In fact, my design in its original form bypassed the loft altogether.… View More

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Model 3 (Changing Plans)

This long, cold, and (very) snowy Winter has given me plenty of time to think and re-think my tiny house plans. All that thinking has led me to explore some totally new ideas, culminating in an alternate design which actually has its basis in some of my earliest plans from a year ago, but draws heavily on the experience I’ve gained while working on the model I’ve been featuring on this blog. While I love much about… View More

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Some thoughts on the process so far

First, thanks to my dad (Jon) for stepping in and giving this blog a second life. Before my dad picked it back up, I had resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to make some sacrifices in order to make ProcessHouse into a reality and not just a blog. Unfortunately, one of those sacrifices was, in fact, blogging. However, as my father and I began construction back in May, I discovered he… View More

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Walls!

First wall framed

The past 2-3 weeks has been focused on wall construction, with three wall segments now standing and one nearing completion. Before I began on the walls, I still had a few decisions to make. This ended up taking longer and being more stressful than I had anticipated. The main decision I faced was the interplay of the interior headroom, roof pitch, and wall height. My design (which I’ll show more of soon) features a roof that… View More