Tiny House Lover

I ran into this awesome picture that stbeck posted on Flickr, he always adds interesting pictures of small structures.  I noticed right away that it had tail lights and is actually sitting on a trailer so it’s sort of like a hut on wheels.  I wonder what it’s doing in the woods!

I also wanted to follow up with an awesome quote from Bill Strickland.  He’s an incredible entrepreneur who wrote Make the Impossible Possible which I’ve recently read and highly recommend for everyone.

“The sand in the hourglass flows only one way. Don’t waste precious time chasing someone else’s definition of success. Live your life with purpose now. Look for the things that inspire you, trouble you, make you feel most alive, and trust in those things to shape your future. They will give you all your heart could ever wish for.”
— Bill Strickland

Enjoy your day!

- Alex

I was excited to see an interview between Tammy and Dee Williams in my Google Reader today. Most of you probably know Dee Williams but in case you haven’t heard of her here’s a must watch video interview that I’m sure you will enjoy.

Now that you’ve watched that, here’s the first part of Tammy’s latest interview at RowdyKittens.

Tammy: Selling your big house and moving into a tiny home was big decision. What inspired you to downsize your life?

Dee: There were a bunch of things that inspired me to down-size in 2004. My friend, Mark, had just died of cancer; my job as a hazardous waste inspector was increasingly reminding me that my (our) consumer choices have terrible consequences; and I had just returned from a trip to Guatemala, where I was brought face to face with my affluence and real-world poverty. There were lots of big things that were ultimately encouraging me to go small.

I just found this Wendell Berry poem that says it all:

Like a tide it comes in,
Wave after wave of foliage and fruit
The nurtured and the wild,
Out of the light to this shore.
In its extravagance we shape
The strenuous outline of enough.

Tammy: You live a beautiful, yet tiny, 84 square-foot home that’s been featured in Yes!Magazine, TIME Magazine, on Good Morning America, NBC Evening News, National Public Radio, and other media. Can you tell us about your popular little house?

Dee: Media is a weird thing. I think people are curious, intrigued, sometimes horrified, and sometimes simply entertained by the fact that a grown-up lady can live in a tiny space. I’ve been told people are inspired by my choice to live small, and have also been told that I’m what’s wrong with America – that I shouldn’t be allowed to visit the library or use any other public resource, and that I should be ashamed of myself for sponging off other’s hard work. Ouch. My mom’s response to the media is “it seems 99% of the people who have written really like your choices and the other 1%, well, they can’t spell.”

Read the rest by clicking here

Update: More pictures added below.

This morning I was browsing around FlickR and was finding so many great pictures. But I found a couple that I thought were special.

These two photos will show you exactly what it’s like to live in a really tiny space. I get to show a lot of small and tiny houses here but not always the interior/what it’s like. So enjoy…

First picture here is the bedroom corner…

This next one is the living room corner…

Update: When I looked again I found lots more pictures of this tiny house. And guess what, it’s actually build on a trailer!

Here’s quick look at how it was built:

And here’s a full tour:

These pictures are here thanks to M.Barkley and you can visit his flickr page to see more.

If you click on any of the pictures it’ll take you right to the flickr page where it’s located, there you can comment/ask your questions and look for more detailed pictures of his house.

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