How it all started

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I love "little" things.  Darrin and the kids tease me about it, but... it's definitely true.

So it stands to reason that while browsing Netflix one day, when I found a documentary called "Tiny, A Story About Living Small", Darrin said something to the affect of "You just want to watch it because it's little". True again, but it was more than that, I was intrigued.

The documentary is about a a young couple, Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller, who attempt to build a tiny house with no construction experience and a limited budget.  The documentary also addresses the shifting American values.  A very interesting documentary, I would recommend it to anyone.

The very first time I saw a tiny house was in a magazine in a doctors waiting room, and that was a good 10-15 years ago. I remember thinking "That's crazy! Who could live like that?" But, I was also charmed by the idea.

Back to the video.  One of Darrin's first comments was something like "Why not just buy an RV?", but as we watched, he became more interested and we started to talk about it being a great idea for us.  We live in a house that's roughly 650 square feet now and we both agree, a good 60% of the house we don't really use or need, it's just room to store junk.  We have been kicking around the idea of buying a house for years, we neither one of us wants to be locked into 30 year mortgage at our age.  So, here was a potential to build a house with cash, no loans, that would be 100% ours and that we could move when necessary.  No loans, no mortgage, and the opportunity to possibly live completely off the grid. As for the RV idea... RV's are fun, but they have a very temporary, plasticy feel to me.

We kicked the idea around for a long time and finally concluded that this was a a very practical way to go. 

And so began our Adventures with Our Wee House on Wheels!