Words to the Cosmos

Re:Post – Difficulty with financing a Tiny House

// November 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Tiny House Projects

From Tiny House Blog, Kent Griswald writes about “comps” and obtaining financing in a small-footprint house in a land where your neighbors all own/build behemoths:

I could write a very short blog post here and say: Just don’t do it if you can’t live your small dwelling dream without a mortgage.

I know now one of the cornerstones of the Small House Movement is to simplify life, which includes ridding ourselves of unnecessary debt. If I had learned of Kent’s Tiny House blog and read his advice about getting out of debt sooner, I may not be writing this now.

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Tammy Strobel: Portland Tiny Homes: Reused and Recycled

// October 6th, 2009 // No Comments » // House-of-Chaos, Tiny House Projects, professional

Portland Cottage

Tammy Strobel, who has the Rowdy Kittens blog about social change through simple living, guest posts over at the Tiny House Blog about the Portland Tiny Homes:

“Jeff and Brad are the cottage designers and builders. The couple created these beautiful spaces using salvaged and recycled materials. Brad has been building in Oregon for over 30 years and Jeff has an incredible amount of experience in gardening and masonry.”

The Portland Cottages are 374 sq. feet (that’s 1/2 the size of the Tiny House-of-Chaos!!!) and beautiful.

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