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a room of her own

On March 14, 2010 · 4 Comments · In mayalife, writing

Look what my wonderful husband made for me…a writing room!

Well, we already had the little room over on the side of the Noah House, but it wasn’t being used for much.  We had thought it would be a fun, tiny, room for Luc, but he declared it too [...]

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in which we move in to the recycled house, and are pleased

On August 10, 2009 · 10 Comments · In alternative building

We have completely, and thoroughly, moved in, FINALLY, to the Noah House!

[cue cheering!]

That is to say, we haven’t moved out of the yurt, we’re just…spreading. And in case you don’t know what I am talking about, here is the beginning of the story of recycling a tiny house, the tiny house [...]

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poof, another room

On July 27, 2009 · 2 Comments · In alternative building

We are in the process of moving into the Noah House. I don’t mean moving out of the yurt, just adding the Noah House as another room in our weird, Tiny House Compound. As I mentioned here, Paul finished the interior trim last weekend and, although there is still a punch list of [...]

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today’s news from the yurt

On July 18, 2009 · 1 Comment · In food, kiddo life, mayalife

Today Paul finishes the interior of the Noah House! We’re so excited. The paper will come off the walnut floors, the tools and sawdust will be removed, and we’ll bust a bottle of champagne on the deck. Well, okay, probably not bust it. But I might have one of my

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how to recycle oak flooring

On February 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In alternative building

We floored the yurt with recycled oak flooring. We paid $800 dollars for 800 square feet of the stuff (its sells for $3-$5 / square foot, new), and since the yurt wasn’t ready for it, we lived in our old farmhouse with metal bound bundles of it filling our living room knee deep for about [...]

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how to recycle a tiny house, day five

On January 23, 2009 · 7 Comments · In alternative building

After taking a day off for the big snow, the guys were back at work for their fifth day recycling our new, tiny house (see the last few posts for details if you are new to the story). They arrived just about the time I was going out to the barn. Here is Fancy saying [...]

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how to recycle a tiny house, day four, afternoon

On January 20, 2009 · 2 Comments · In alternative building

Continuing on in the amazing process of recycling an entire house. Here we are after the guys came back to work after lunch.

Monty started working inside, making the door between the two sections, putting up the loft, putting in the electrical outlets, etc, while Matt and [...]

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how to recycle a tiny house, day four

On January 19, 2009 · 2 Comments · In alternative building

After taking the weekend off, the carpentry crew was back at eight this morning, slamming it into gear with their incredibly loud music and their hammers and full on get-it-done work ethic. I’ve been staring through the window in awe at their industry.

They’d been here about 45 minutes when it looked like this.

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how to recycle a tiny house, day three

On January 17, 2009 · 1 Comment · In alternative building

The guys brought the Noah House to its new home the morning of the third day. This the first load, pulling up to the yurt at 8:30 in the morning. Be glad there isn’t a picture of pre-coffee me, staggering outside to answer questions about where to put stuff. Scary.

The [...]

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how to recycle a tiny house, day two

On January 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In alternative building

The crew was hard at work on the second morning. Here is what it looked like when we went over to the old site.

Here is the roof. Just a pile of stuff.

Then we came back about four hours later and the whole house was just [...]

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