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Shipping Container Tiny House or Workshop

Shipping Container Tiny House or Workshop

This guy showed up in my Facebook MarketPlace feed this morning. He sells shipping containers out of Lyman, South Carolina. He sells them “as is” or he paints them and puts in doors and windows. I’ve seen a lot of shipping container homes on Pinterest. 

Wrapping the House

Wrapping the House

They have finished putting up the cladding and have cut open some of the windows. They delivered rolls of green wrap with the rest of the materials and I wanted to see how they put it up. When we got there, they had put the 

Garage is Framed, Sheathing Begins

Garage is Framed, Sheathing Begins

It was beautiful over the weekend. Cliff got the field mowed and started clearing some of the brush. He treats the mower like it is a bush hog. We found more golf balls. Someone used to use this field as a driving range. I think 

New Small Houses in Asheville

New Small Houses in Asheville

It’s raining pretty hard today. I doubt they are going to get anything done at our house today, so I am going to share a house we just looked at. On the way back from Bone Fish Grill last night we stopped to see some 

Glass Door Knobs

Glass Door Knobs

The new house comes with satin nickel door knobs. I’m not a fan. They have some very nice options you can choose instead, but I really love the rose gold door knobs on the log cabin. I decided I would move the satin nickel ones 

Framing the Walls

Framing the Walls

They next time we dropped by the site, they already had walls up! They held the walls in place temporarily with 2 x 4s propping them in place. Fewer guys came today, but they are moving right along! Next: Garage is Framed, Sheathing Begins >

Cabo Park Model Tiny Home by Titan on Amazon

Cabo Park Model Tiny Home by Titan on Amazon

Here is another Tiny Home you can buy on Amazon! This is the Cabo, made by Titan Homes. It is 12’ x 36’, one bedroom, one bath, kitchen, living room, even room for a full sized stacked washer and dryer! This tiny house would be 

We have a floor!

We have a floor!

Framing started! We knew something was going on when we saw all the trucks. All the other crews have car pooled. Every framer drove a truck. Remember those bolts they mortared into the block? The first thing they did is bolt pressure treated lumber to 

“They’ll need a crane, they’ll need a crane…”

“They’ll need a crane, they’ll need a crane…”

I missed them getting the bulldozer into the house and I did not want to miss seeing them get it back out again. I went down to the house at sunrise and started a stakeout, waiting. I’m glad I went so early! They showed up 

Tiny Houses on eBay

Tiny Houses on eBay

Did you know that eBay has tiny houses? Just go to Business & Industrial > Construction > Buildings, Modular & Pre-Fab Then choose Tiny House. On the browser version of eBay, in the left column you can make refinements. The refinements on the app are