Construction

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Over the winter I’ve been trying to finish up a lot of interior projects so that as spring comes around we can really focus all of our time on the garden and various outdoor construction projects we have planned. So far… We’ve finished building, painting and hanging all the custom interior chalkboard doors. We built [...]

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Small by Modern Standards Our home is 1,000 square feet. It feels wonderfully spacious to us, but by modern standards, it’s quite small. In fact, the average home size in US is 2,438 square feet, according to the US Census. To us, though, our “tiny” home is perfect. Although big houses are still the norm, small [...]

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The light from a winter sunset is hard to beat. We love the snow for it’s beauty and how it quiets our already serene environment. We also love that snow brings wildlife closer to the house. They’re still cautious, though! Inside, we are working away on more projects. Scott is nearly finished with the bottom [...]

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Over the past few weeks we re-purposed every available horizontal shop surface, to stage our life’s detritus as we went about reorganizing the storage area. With the storage overhaul complete, the shop is back in action with more space than ever before. It’s so nice to be back – working in the shop is my meditation [...]

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Living in the great northwest, one thing we have a lot of is trees. We’ve been contemplating how we could put this locally abundant resource to good use on several of our upcoming projects. We’ve got a garden shed, cottages, an outdoor kitchen and loads of other ideas we have yet to build. Obviously building [...]

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Stained concrete floors are all the rage in modern design. You’ve seen them at your local Starbucks… or hopefully you shun the corporate coffee house in favor of a local roaster and manage to catch a glimpse of stained concrete floors there as well.  They’re everywhere these days, and I think it’s a design technique [...]

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By January of 2011, we had started interior projects in the house. The first project to be completed was our closet. Our home is quite small, but we make the best of every inch we have. In February, we found prints in the snow that looked like mountain lion. But we weren’t sure…yet… And although [...]

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It’s not quite winter but I’m starting to settle into winter projects already.  Over the next few weeks I’ll continue to work on the garden infrastructure outside by putting up the new fencing, building raised beds and prepping for water and electricity expansions in the spring (this includes getting the solar field ready!), but once [...]