![]() Because we are saving money on rent, we have been to some cool places-especially Abu Dhabi and Dubai. We also love to travel, and that was a huge motivation for us to go tiny. Once we figured the kinks out, though, we were fine. We eventually just learned to keep jugs of water under the sink just in case and be prepared for the possibility that we may not have water when we wake up in the morning. The water intake is heated, but there were parts of it that were suspended in the air, so we had to insulate those. ![]() Tim spent lots of time out there with a hairdryer trying to thaw everything out. ![]() We had frozen water intake and frozen gray water pipes from the kitchen because the house wasn’t level (lesson learned). We had a record winter in terms of temperature (regularly 20-30 degrees below zero). We also ran into some major bumps in the road when winter hit. In the tiny house, if I need to do yoga, he needs to get up too because the bed is in the yoga spot. In our big house, I would wake up before work to do yoga and Tim would sleep in. The workers knew us by name!Īctually moving into the house was so exciting, but there was some adjusting that had to happen. The process was really difficult, and we made about 100 trips to Goodwill. Getting rid of everything was easy in the sense that we really didn’t have a hard time looking at almost everything and being like, “Yup, that’s gotta go.” Our mind-set was that if we got rid of something that we later regretted, we could just buy a new one. What was the process like to move into your mobile home? Soon after, Tim was on a business trip in Washington, DC, and visited the house. It's really the design-with the bed pushing under the office instead of being lofted-that makes the house what it is. As soon as Tim saw it, he was like, “I could live in that.” One day, I came across photos of the original MiNiM home built by Brian Levy, and I was totally in love. I originally proposed a Yurt, and he was like, “I am not living in a Mongolian circus tent.” There’s a name to this strategy, right? The one where you start with an absurd offer in hopes of ending up exactly where you want to be?Īnyway, I then started looking at tiny houses on wheels, and he was dead set against that too. It took a long time to get Tim on board with tiny living. Make, model and year: Minim Tiny Home, 2014Ī Minim House is a tiny house built on a utility trailer using SIPS (structurally insulated panels)-sort of a kit home in a way.
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