Category Archives: Personal Experience

Lofty Minded?

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For those of you who have a loft in your tiny house, I have recently discovered a very good reason why it can be helpful to also have some kind of sleeping arrangements on the main floor of your tiny, in addition to your loft, even if it is a bench-type seat that someone can sleep on. There are several possibilities to choose from when designing your home. My favorites are the click clack sofas, also know as the jackknife couches, seen in many modern RV’s. They open up sideways, compared to the typical pullout sofa where the whole mattress … Continue reading →

Living the Tiny Life with a Pet

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Annie is our 6 yr. old, 35 pound Schipperke mix. I have read articles about people who live in their tiny spaces with all types and sizes of dogs; and most recently I found James and Macy Miller’s wonderful story of living in their 232 sq. ft. home with their 2 small children and their very large Great Dane. The only difference between their place and my 236 sq. ft. home is that they have a loft and I don’t. In the hustle and bustle of the many details of the move, I didn’t give much thought to how our … Continue reading →

Opportunity to Travel

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With my new-found time freedom since moving into my own tiny space, I have had the opportunity to travel, as I have always wanted to do. I recently went on a road trip to New England with my sister Beverly. Along the way, we stopped in several beautiful towns and had so much fun being part of the tourist community in each. NOTE: If you click on the pictures below, you can see a larger view. While touring a very old, sparsely-furnished plantation home in Georgia, probably where the owner lived as he climbed the ladder of success, I had … Continue reading →

Living on a Boat Named “Solitude”

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Living on a boat with 6 children has always got surprised looks from people who can’t imagine how that is possible. Well, I can assure you it is. And we have a newspaper article about us doing it to prove it. To read that article, please click HERE. When I think back about our motivation to take such drastic steps, I first think about how much we enjoyed boating as a family and recall all the fond memories of every weekend in the summer that we would be on our boat. Being self-employed gave us the freedom to leave the … Continue reading →