Rowan's Tiny Home

This past week has been amazing! With summer vacation officially on, and marked with a beautiful cicada landing on my head the first day, my days have been spent doing nothing but work on the house. I have most of the metal roof on (had to order a different rake trim before I could seal it all up), the nose of the trailer is all framed out with the plywood screwed on, and the bathroom fan is cut out with some detail work all done -although I have no photos yet of these happenings. My hope is that in a week and a half I can make the official call to the insulation folk and get this baby ready for the interior work. What I have come to realize is that electric is my achilles heel. I've sought outside help, but most who are local seems to be unfamiliar with dc wiring, or are just generally confused by the whole endeavor. Even the local solar places- they install grid tied systems and so everything goes to an inverter. No concern for things like voltage drop in that scenario. One e...

It has been a long while since I have posted... this winter has been an intense one. I graduated this month, thesis and all being complete (yay!), and there are only a few more weeks left in the school year (work school that is). Most trying was that my dad was diagnosed with cancer, and anyone who has dealt with a similar illness in the family understand the all encompassing roller coaster that that kind of event entails. Luckily the chemo seems to be doing what it is meant to do, and now we are just getting into a routine and waiting to see what happens after about 6 more months of treatments. Needless to say, it has been a long winter. Now that spring quickly begins to feel like summer I have been able to focus on building again- and it feels so refreshing to throw myself back into it. There are more updates to come shortly, but I thought I would leave you with one of the more exciting developments... my new stove. Made by Andrew over at Navigator Stove Works, it designed for b...