Sailing Baby Blue

The exterior of the tiny house is finally finished! Let’s take a little trip down memory lane to review all the work it took to get to this point. Our first priority was getting the house weathered in. Taking tarps off each morning before starting work and the epic struggle to get them back on each evening was putting a significant damper on crew morale. Getting Tyvek on the walls was no problem, but protecting the roof would take a lot more effort. We measured carefully and placed our custom order for $620 worth of WeatherEdge 29 gauge steel roofing in blue. We went back and forth about the color for a week and then just went for it. I wasn’t sure we made the right choice when it arrived, but now that everything has come together, I think it looks downright adorable. If I do say so myself. The only challenge we ran into was that some of the edge trim was oversized for our teeny tiny house. We were able to use the ridge cap and drip edge but the gable trim and wall-to-roof trim around ...

  The first time I remember discussing tiny houses was when we were living in Denver. It was the winter before we sold the house and I was looking for something to do for the night. I saw that Dee Williams, author of “The Big Tiny: A Built-it-Myself Memoir”, was speaking at the Tattered Cover. I hadn’t read the book, but it sounded interesting and like something Jon might enjoy too, so we went. On the floor of the bookstore, the author had taped off a life-size layout of her tiny house. As I listened to her talk about the tiny house movement and gazed at the taped off partitions for the kitchen and toilet, I thought to myself: I am never doing that. Jon on the other hand, was all about it. My main objection was the trailer. I understood that the point was to avoid needing permits, but it just didn’t seem worth it if you had to build such a  tiny  space. I enjoy a small, cozy house, but the idea of limiting the size to something that could fit on a trailer did not app...