Tiny House Lover

To all my tiny house friends I will be unplugging from the web for a full week (actually, 8 days) to spend time with family. I’ll be back with lots of energy!

I’ll leave you with some of my favorite posts from the last few months.

Small Rustic Log Cabin and Simplifying

Really Cute Tiny Cottage

Creating Your Own Reality

Shipping Container Apartments

Indian Teepee on a Foundation/Deck

3 Tiny Houses in a Row

See you all soon and thanks for your support!

The tiny house poll results were quite embarrassing, as in… I don’t have many visitors coming here. But here they are anyway:

Just 22 votes–in March I had a total of about 2,500 page views on here. So far for April I’ve had 3,500 so it’s growing every month. And I promise I’ll get better and better!

I’ll leave you with a few really interesting links from around the web:

High Tech Tiny Apartment Tour in Hong Kong

Twelve Cubed Micro Houses

8×8x8 Backyard Office Cube by Michael Janzen

Can Money by Happiness?

What if you want to convert a particular room into private living quarters that has no bathroom or kitchen? What do you do about water?

It’s expensive to install plumbing in a new area of a house. Have you ever thought about a simple do it yourself option that can work for…

• Renting a private bedroom
• Van dwelling
• School bus conversions
• Camping
• Off grid living

Using some online resources I was able to find…

1) A porcelain kitchen sink container

This jug can hold 2.5 gallons of water. Perfect to place above the kitchen sink so that the water drains easily.

Some tiny houses are supplied water by simple gravity fed systems just like this.

You can put this container on a hot plate to make or keep the water warm.

I’m sure you can also manage a way to do a similar installation over head so you can use it as a shower.

Order this porcelain water jug here from Amazon

2) A hot plate to keep the water warm

This hot plate can be used as I mentioned above–to keep the water warm when needed.

Order information for the hot plate here from Amazon

3) A sink

You can use a bowl like this 16″ diameter one that I found on Amazon as a sink.

You’ll just have to figure out the drilling the hole for drainage part.

Order info for this 13 quart stainless steel bowl

Tips for making a sink from a cheap stainless steel bowl

More… Gray Water

What you’ll do with the gray water will vary upon your situation. If this is a mobile home of any kind you’ll want to be sure your gray water’s going into a tank so that you can dispose of the water properly.

In other situations like in tiny houses–you can divert the gray water to a garden.

Either way here are some containers that may help.