It’s a little difficult to estimate a true cost because of the show and the complicated taxes we had to file that year, but I would say it ended up costing us around $50,000 out of pocket but is probably valued quite a bit higher. Because the project was on such a fast-paced time schedule, we didn’t have much hand in the build.
We were really impressed with Chris and his team, and wouldn’t hesitate to hire him all over again.
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The TV show chose a local contractor, Lake Construction. That has me thinking that the island is now taking up a lot of unnecessary space, so we are looking into switching things up.ĭid you do it yourself? Who helped? How much did it end up costing you to build it? Recently, we’ve found that our dogs have (finally… they’re pitbulls) mellowed out enough to be gated off in the office with their beds. For example, our house includes a large mobile island that also functioned as a crate for the dogs while we were away. Beyond that, as you grow and change, so too do your needs in your living space, so things are constantly in flux. We have spent a lot of time over the last four years making changes to the house to make it more functional. However, when your house is built on TV, certain practical considerations (like a functioning closet) are overlooked. Our house was built on the TV show, so construction was finished in about a week and a half! It was a whirlwind. How long did it take you to finish your tiny house?Īfter purchasing the plans from Brian, he reached out to us after being contacted by the TV show Tiny House Nation, and suggested that we might want to look into it. Every dollar had somewhere to go, and there was nothing left to travel with, which was what we really wanted to use our money for. Our time was also enslaved by our 1600 square foot house there was constant cleaning, yard work, and other work to be done, and it was typical for us to lose an entire precious day of the weekend to it. We were buried in our mortgage, student loans, car payments, and other debt. Why did you go tiny? What are you hoping to get out of it for yourself?Īt the time we decided to build the house, we felt extremely trapped by finances. We also love that the bed stows away, not taking up precious space (or closing the space in) when not in use.
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(Boneyard Studios at the time), and he came home fully ready to build.We love the open floor plan and windows our house feels so much bigger than other tinies we’ve been in. When my Pinterest board finally led me to Brian Levy’s MiNiM Home, I knew that I finally had one that Tim might go for. When I first approached Tim about tiny houses, he was slightly interested but not into the loft design. What type of tiny house do you have or are you working on? I was curious to see how I could apply that freeing experience to my life every day. I was amazed by how freeing it was to have nothing except a backpack of “things.” I’ve always been intrigued by and even envious of the Thoreau and McCandless types. I had recently done a cross-country road trip with nothing except a backpack (by necessity, really we were moving my sister back from CA and the car was packed with humans, belongings, and an English Bulldog that attacked the windshield wipers anytime it rained). At that time, there weren’t a ton of tiny houses around or in the spotlight, so I was looking at layouts for small apartments, RVs, shipping containers and existing tiny houses. Tim, the practical one, responded with something like, “I’m not living in a Mongolian circus tent.” Undeterred, my Pinterest yurt board soon turned into a tiny house board.
Fascinated, I went home and started dreaming of round open spaces with wood burning stoves. I had a coworker who was super outdoorsy and one day she told me about her dream to build and live in a yurt. How did you first become seriously interested in tiny houses?Ī few years out of college, I was working at a kayak shop during the summer (#teacherlife). We currently live in Fairport, NY (a suburb of Rochester). Tim was born and raised in Syracuse, NY, and I grew up in a suburb of Binghamton, NY. Photos via Shannon and Tim Interview with Tiny House Couple Shannon & Tim:
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Please don’t miss other exciting tiny homes – join our FREE Tiny House Newsletter! Interview with Tiny House Nation Couple I think you’ll really get a lot out of it. Now they’ve lived in their tiny home for over four years, and they share some of their experiences with us in the interview below, including some of their regrets when it comes to their tiny house. They were in the first season of Tiny House Nation (Episode 3). This is an interview with a Tiny House Nation couple: Tim and Shannon and their Minim Tiny House in Upstate New York.
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