Prepping for Eco Week

Hello!

This coming week is ECO WEEK, sponsored by the Canterbury Sustainability Department. We were asked to participate by hosting an tiny house open house. Check out the website: http://www.sustain.canterbury.ac.nz/ecoweek/!

There will be a few visitors to the tiny house this Tuesday, so we made a big push to get a lot of stuff done (plus cleaning!). Enjoy.

BATHROOM

TRIMMING MISSION: Cover up the fact that our plastic wasn't long enough to reach the floor...

CORI CUT ALL OF THESE (FYI, I do more than just take pictures.)

ALL DONE! Now on to the light and fan!

And now to clean up the look of the sink. First we peeled back the plastic and then came up with this brilliance! 

Just an old suitcase with an attitude, came free with an old newspaper from 1975!

Next up: Kitchen!

A nice curtain rod in anticipation for an actual curtain!

We needed some more storage!

And EVEN MORE STORAGE!

Why so SERIOUS???

We also finished some trim if you can tell. 

 

We also installed our bench top. And added some hinges and protection.

I know you have seen our letters but we finally finished all the electrical in the house today! All we have to do is test and mount our solar panels.

This is the cleanest we could get the house!

Thanks for reading!

-Cori and Pat

Saturday Tiny House Work

Hello blog followers, Today at the tiny house we finished off the door for the utilities box, secured the last bolt fixing the house to the trailer, removed our kitchen cabinets to sand and repaint, and built a small shelf for the kitchen out of some free items we had laying around. The weather turned out to be really nice!

Ceiling Insulating and Covering

Hi everyone, Today at the tiny house we insulated and covered our ceiling. It has felt like forever that the ceiling has been not finished, but today we got it done! Some really good friend of ours had some extra polystyrene laying around. We took what they gave us and bought what we needed and today got around to finishing our ceiling. That stuff sure does make a hell of a mess but in the end it worked out well.

After the insulation was up we calculated that we had enough left over roofing material for our ceiling. The rust, holes, scratches, and all kinds of minor imperfections gives it a good rustic look.

We also had time to build a door for our utilities box completely out of scraps we had left laying around.

Hope you like it!

Think I am looking kind of stiff haha!

Gathering materials for tiny house build.

Hello everyone I just wanted to talk about how to keep on a budget and get materials for a tiny house build for very cheap or free!! Yes free, I know that's exciting not many things are free these days. I got a lot of the materials that you will see in the video and pictures out of the trash. Just keep your eyes open all the time because other people's trash can be your treasure. If you see a job site with a skip (dumpster), just ask the job supervisor if you can have a quick peak in the dumpster. Another way to get stuff very cheap is by going onto trademe. I have bought many things on trademe for really good prices, for example this stainless steel sink for $10.50. Just keep looking and have some cash on hand!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t04_MzeWgCk&feature=youtu.be

I got this cable for my 12v off the grid power system in the trash. On the right is 1000 dollars worth of vinyl I purchased for a case of beer (20 bucks) and some metal grating I will probably use for shelving in the closet.