After seven and a half years, I've finally completed and put the tiny house RV I've been building into operation at the homestead.
I started building it in November 2016 thinking I could complete the project in a year but I fell victim to the common homesteading practice of building many systems at once. Since my time and energy was split between so many projects at once, the time I had for working on the tiny house was quickly narrowed down to a few months in the winter.
Been building a 20ft tiny house piece by piece over the last 6 years. It's that time of the year to get back to work on it. Currently finishing the staircase/ladder/closet/storage selves up the loft. Reclaimed rough sawn ash from the neighbors rejects. Tung oil finish.The days were short and the weather was challenging, plus I was learning many of the techniques from scratch, teaching myself as I went. This made for very slow progress.
However, there were some benefits of moving small and slow on the project. I was able to avoid making any critical/costly mistakes. I also had lots of time to souce cheap and unique reclaimed/recycled materials. Plus, I was able to totally customize and build each component to be unique, leading to it feeling like a work of art rather than a construction project.
For now, I don't think I'll be taking on another project of this scale again anytime soon. But in the end, I taught myself all the skills to build a house from framing and roofing to plumbing and electrical, on down to the finishing techniques for trim.
The intellectual and experiencial capital was definitely worth having so much financial capital tied up in the project for so long. Before I know it, I will have earned it all back anyway leaving me with much more capital than I started with. Low time preference paying off.
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quoting20ft tiny house is in position sooner than expected!
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Had the move scheduled with a friend who had a big enough truck for later in the week but their schedule suddenly freed up and we were able to move the tiny house into position sooner than expected. The sheep are working their way towards the tiny house in this pasture so I'm going to let them graze around it first before I start doing any landscaping. Not celebrating the completion of this long term project just yet but definitely accomplished a big milestone by getting it planted.
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