building the dream.
Why Tiny? Clothesline Tiny Homes will strive to have a small footprint on our natural environment, will allow us to live wherever we want, paying much less money for rent / mortgage and utilities, and will be a fun adventure where we can grow and learn to live with less stuff and enjoy our beautiful world much more!
We started designing it in February of 2012, bought the trailer platform February 25th, and started building February 27th.
2-1/2 months later we finished building and moved into our tiny house mid-May, 2012 and have been living in it ever since!
We both have years of experience designing and building but we thought the best way to learn about the intricacies of a Tiny House would be to design and build one for ourselves that we will live in.
take care,
Carrie {and Shane}
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Wunderbar!!!!! Let’s plan on part 2 of the interview around 3rd week of June. What say y’all?
come do my laundry too!
Is a lot of work, but bring your dirty laundry when you come. Can’t wait to see you, Shane.
what kind of detergent?, are your whites white?
There are some pretty cool nonelectric washing machines out there you might want to check into. It is easier to wash a few things each day than a lot of things once a week. Some of these machines have handles that you turn to make the inside “washing thing” go round and wash your clothes. then you open the drain and keep spinning the water out, then put in clean water and swish them again to rinse, then spin again to get them ready to hang up. Anyway, the whole process takes about 15 minutes for a small load of clothes. Just google nonelectric washing machines.
Lehman’s has a lot of laundry stuff for doing laundry by hand, from a pressure hand washer,like mentioned above, to a breathing hand washer (looks like a toilet plunger) which works great in a 5 gallon bucket from what I’ve heard. I love their catalog. They sell a lot of things that could be useful to people wanting to simplify the way they live.
More updates please!
I’ll work on some new updates. We are loving our tiny home. Thanks for posting. Your friends at clothesline, Shane
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We’re working on getting our trailer registered – what methods did you guys use?
So long as you have a title then just go to the DMV and get trailer plates. Easier to just say it’s a trailer then trying to explain what a tiny house is. Hope they helps, and sorry I did not get back sooner, been out of town. Shane
Hi there Living Tiny! we just registered ours as a trailer, with permanent plates…. Very inexpensive!
- Carrie