Stand up Tall, Tiny.

 It's getting taller!

 Jacob and Charlie spent the weekend getting the dormer frames up! The second story windows were measured and accounted for in the framing and the ridge beam was centered. Jacob will continue this week working on putting in the rafters and stabilizing the ridge beam. In regards to the first story he will also finish the sheathing,

As promised we have our dutch door on the left (needs knobs and paint) and our eight windows on the right! There's three for the loft, and five for the first story (one in bathroom, four in living area/kitchen).

Tiny Tarp Blues

 Tiny blue tarp house!

We now have all the first story window's framed, the door framed, the storage loft and bed loft floor is done. The ridge beam is in position but is not perfectly centered or secured. The sheathing is put on the top half of the first story and Jacob is now working on framing the dormers. Our custom made dutch door is here it just needs knobs, and paint. Pictures of that will come but right now it's living in my computer room along with most of our windows. We ordered our roofing material from Home Depot the manufacturer is called Onduvilla it is composed of 50% recycled materials and natural pigments. The color I had hoped for is a sky blue color but the company no longer makes that so we're getting the terracotta color.

Laborious Labor Day

 Our tiny house now has framing on all walls, the bed loft, and storage loft!

Charlie and Jacob worked very hard this past three day weekend. They spent a long time crunching numbers making sure the plans are all measured right. They're so wonderful! I've requested the bathroom be against the back wall instead of the left side and I've also requested that the roof extend over the porch to provide a storage loft. After the plans were updated they cut and nailed in the loft framing and joists. They reinforced and extended the storage loft over the porch so that we'd have more headroom in the living area. The front wall got put up and we got our 6x6's put up and framed. Jacob found composite decking material that will get cut and screwed into place for our deck. It's grey right now but I'll paint it later.

  I bought more windows from Ballard Reuse and also from Second Use. They both gave us excellent deals. We got our door ordered from Frank Lumber, it's going to be a special cut dutch door the top half of the door will have glass panels and the bottom half will be plain wood. They're cutting, and framing the door to our specifications and they were really helpful with our weird size needs.

Special thanks to David and Bonnie for lending us their nail guns and air compressor hose.