In the middle of the mayhem of my father's death, I heard this clip on the radio as I traipsed back and forth between my job in Edmonds and the hospital in Tacoma. It's a segment about Dee Williams (pictured above) that aired on Weekend America, an NPR radio station feature.



I was enthralled. This idea solved so many of the problems that had kept me from living the way I truly want to for a long time. And with my father's death - I was re-evaluating what living life means. This was a great place to focus and follow - and that's how I got started down this path.

Soon I found this video on YouTube of Dee too - which just reinforced all the things I found so enchanting about building a tiny house.



This all inspired me and soon I ordered my own set of plans from the Tumbleweed Tiny House company. I sent an email with questions to the company - and they put me in touch via email to Dee. Now I'm waiting to hear back from her - for a chance to run on down to Olympia in the near future and see her tiny house for myself.

How exciting - my own inspiration - and I get to meet her in person soon! Woo hoo!

I'm going with the Lusby layout for my house - found here on the Tumbleweed house website.

In the backroom (third photo above) I plan to build myself a wall-bed of sorts like the one show above.

What's great about this is that it allows me to entertain as well as give me the ability to sleep on the same floor as the bathroom - eliminating that middle of the night crawl down the ladder. May seem like a small thing - but it makes me happy.

The on-demand, tankless, propane powered water heater will also live under one half of the couch/bed - and the other half will be storage for bedding, etc.

This afternoon I attended a baby shower for my good friend, who is living in a very small house (a mother-in-law type unit) in yet another friend's back yard. She had the most amazing shelving type structure that created a stairway effect - PLUS it had one shelf that was actually a table top when you pulled it out. I'm going to do some "noodling" and decide if this might be a great thing for me too.

One good friend (Atom) and his tool (Saws-all) and a warm day = Travel trailer stripped down to it's floor. Very productive day!

Now to rip the base floor wood off - sand the metal trailer a bit and apply several coats of Rustoleum. Won't be long 'til the real construction begins...