Starting Over - # 1 The Beginning

I remember the day my husband and I came out to the property and while praying about our situation we kept saying to each other, "All we need is a roof over our heads."

Indeed. We laugh now for we then looked up and saw, we had a roof.

Behind that faux wall in the picture was a trailer. We intended to move into it and build out the gazebo into a Tiny House. It would answer all of our problems.

However, someone in the neighborhood felt our property and our trailer and all the work tools and camping gear were salvageable the dear little scavenger. But instead of just taking what was laying around they took the time to rip out the wires, lighting, stove, and refrigerator as well. Strange they felt ripping the wallpaper down as well as the roof tiles.

Although this was a bit daunting we did not let this stop us. When an instant decision had to be made we went ahead and moved into a tent that looked like the picture below.

That worked out great for the first week or two. Remember those micro-storms that were taking trees down in 2014 at the end of the summer? We woke up to one as it ripped the seams apart on the tent. 

We had to move into the box to be house. Yes, we seriously had begun to build The Huge Tiny House from used materials. 

 

Bob, a dear friend brought out a huge pile of used 2" by 6", 2" by 4" and such. His truck was draggin it's butt. 

This is a couple of pictures of some of those used materials. Not only did we have to collect them, we then had to turn them into usable wood and such by removing screws, nails and sometimes even old foam insulation had to be scraped off. We had a lot of used items to drag out to the property. 

Some of our neighbors began to snicker at us and call us the Pallet Palace, endearing themselves to us along the way. Delightful!