Breaking Ground Today

I always imagine a green alien popping out of their spaceship, tilting their head and with their first question tilting their heads and saying: What does this mean the breaking ground thing? Why are you breaking the ground? 

I know, breaking ground, that always sounds so silly to me. We are not breaking it we are going to be moving it around. We have a strip of bedrock though that will be quite the trick to move around.

Last night we remeasured and this Huge Tiny House, this temporary dwelling that will end up being a classroom, my art studio and the place to go for all the gossip, she got some re-arraigning. We will be moving dirt around to flatten the ground a bit, one corner of the tiny house will be close to a bit of a hill and we have to clear the way for her to sit there.

We don't begin to build the other Big Tiny House until at least spring, this is where will will live until the permanent house is built. We say spring, but we might still be gleaning for the other house so we shall see.

We switched the bathroom and the bedroom spaces around it is an easier fit and we will be using about 30 less 2' by 4's. This will make the space just about 70 square feet smaller.

The most unusual thing about the build is some of the roof lines. Because we are using an existing structure and we are saving the roof we have to tuck the rest of the roofs around the middle roof core. One of them will be at a sharp angle to allow for the snow to move away from the middle of the the building.

Below is the space we agreed on my dear husband and I, the bathroom of course is more of an RV style bathroom. The kitchen will be in the old gazebo space that becomes the living room/dinningroom/kitchen.

The back door will be in the bedroom space.  

The front door is this on side. It faces the road. 

All of the dark green boxes are storage. I will be remaking the blueprints based on this sketch and will set in the windows and all the other things necessary for it to look like a real house.  But for today, we know where to dig and move dirt around. 

We also have to prep to remove the log supports on the gazebo roof, it's the only part we can save because of the damage to the logs. 

The walls will be made of the pallet wood we have been collecting and then clad over so we will not freeze this winter. 

Ok, I'm not paying attention to the time, we are off to dig our way to begin re-homing ourselves. 

Have a great day send us your energy! 

Tina Bjorkland of Spokane Voice has started a Go Fund Me for us even a dollar would help. http://www.gofundme.com/cbmxq0