Like so many others before us, my family and I have dreams of living in tiny houses. The difference between other tiny home dwellers and us is that we are creating a compound of tiny buildings instead of ONE house/structure.
My motivations for this are many.
1. I dont' want to live on TOP of my family
2. we could not decide which type of building to do so we went with ALL of them. One will be Cob another Straw light clay. One day I also want to purchase a used train car and convert it!
3. I want my son to grow up with a space of his own
4. I want my son to grow up with an outdoor living space that keeps him occupied and learning
5. We have quite a bit of "stuff" we do not want to get rid of like musical instruments, workshop tables and tools etc.
so....a couple of years ago, we acquired just under 9 acres of land in Madison County, Arkansas. It's a lovely triangle of wooded land. It's got a little man-made pond which needs a leak repair. It also has nearly 1/2 acre of cleared land with a road cut directly to the clearing.
There's our little pond. On the far side, back right of the picture is where we're building.
So far we've built a cob outhouse (i'll have to find the photo of it)
A cob/reclaimed materials tiny shack to sleep in when we build
it's an 8x8 tiny cabin. It has a drop down platform for my son. Of course, I'll be sure to post photo's of the inside when I get them.
started work on a 16x20 cabin
planted an apple tree I won from our local Co-Op (Ozark Natural Foods in Fayetteville, AR)
and of course...relaxed.
Oh, I also won the rain barrel with the Apple tree!
Coming soon will be the backhoe company clearing the way for the electric lines as well as our compromise mini-home. More to come! Thanks for checking in.
