3 Ways To Obtain A Tiny House
As more and more people fall in love with the tiny house movement, many are people are asking - how do I get one? There are 3 ways you can get yourself a tiny house - buy from a builder, buy used, or build your own. 1) Get Your Tiny House Professionally Made The...
3 Takeaways On Our 2 Year Tiny House Anniversary
March 28th marked two years living in our tiny house! I suppose that makes this our "cotton" year according to the old traditional anniversary gifts. I wonder what my house would appreciate made of cotton... New sheets? Wheel covers? A sail? I'm open to ideas, here....
What is Permaculture Design Anyways?
In this article I am going to share with you insight into what Permaculture means, and how as a design science, it is powerfully exciting and of tremendous value for you. To do this, I am going to break this down into two sections. In the first section I will give you...
5 Things It Takes To Go Tiny
Most people in my life, when I told them that Kenton and I were going to build ourselves a tiny house, probably thought, "Yeah, OK. I'll believe it when I see it." And I cant blame them! I don't exactly have a perfect track record with follow-through... That, and...
Do we hate each other now? (Tiny House Relationships)
Here’s a comment I get a lot since Kenton and I moved into our tiny house: "I could never live so close to my spouse - do you guys fight all the time?" Pretty valid question. In a traditional house, we are used to having our own bedrooms, recreation rooms, multiple...
Forgotten Wisdom – Poop
Yep, you read that title correctly. Today we are going to talk about the forgotten wisdom around POOP. I will unavoidably (and intentionally) smear some potty humour in here, but I also mean to have a real adult conversation. Things are about to get shitty. I'm...
Pets in Tiny Homes
In this blog post I am going to share with you insight into our life designing for and living in a tiny house with our little cat - Roxanne. We adopted Roxanne back in 2014, when Kenton and I lived in a big rental house. We fostered her through the SAFE Team, who...
Edible School Yards for Edmonton
If you know of me and the local and international work I do, you know I am all about inspiring people and showing how humans can be a powerful and positive force who live sustainably on this planet. Most of us don't know how to live a sustainable life because we...
13 Types of Tiny House People
As a teacher of tiny house living, designing, and building, I have had the opportunity to witness Tiny House People in their natural environment... While you may think that there is a single group of people called "The Tiny House People", there are in fact sub-species...
The Reasons I Live in a Tiny House and Why You Might Want to Join Me
I live in a tiny house that my husband Kenton and I built together. We designed and researched for 8 months, and then we built it for another 8 months with the help of some really cool, really skilled people. So, why? 1. We wanted to live in a house we could actually...
