She built her retirement home for $8,000 🏑


πŸ‘΅ She Built Her Retirement Home for $8,000​
At 65, Carol and her son turned a 310 sq ft storage building in Lubbock, Texas, into her home with salvaged supplies, right down to a kitchen sink stamped 1950.

🌳 399 Sq Ft Homes on 20 Wooded Acres​
New this morning: Creek Walk Cottages sets park-model homes among creeks and ponds right on South Carolina’s Swamp Rabbit Trail, about a mile from downtown Travelers Rest.

πŸͺ¨ Two Sisters Built a 600 Sq Ft Cliff Cabin​
Designed by their architect daughter and niece, the Pender Island cabin is anchored into bedrock with a 12-foot wall of glass facing the Olympic Mountains.

🎣 Tiny Houses Parked on a Florida Canal​
New this morning: a family-owned park on Lake Okeechobee’s Rim Canal where tiny houses on wheels can stay long-term, with about 10 of its 21 sites right on the water.

πŸ‘ 1,500 People Waited for These 8 Cottages​
Our guide to Georgia’s tiny house communities runs from that Atlanta-area pocket neighborhood to wooded lots on Lookout Mountain and park models near Lake Burton.

🏑 A 638 Sq Ft Two-Bedroom That Arrives Whole​
New this morning: Nestadu builds its four Nest ADUs in a factory and sets them in California backyards finished inside and out, from a 200 sq ft studio up to two bedrooms.

πŸͺŸ Could You Live in Their 252 Sq Ft Cottage?​
Cody and Jillian’s little cottage on a foundation has a bay-window kitchen, a wardrobe built into the loft stairs, and a roomier sleeping loft than you’d expect.

🌴 She Couldn’t Retire Until She Went Tiny​
Susan had Movable Roots build her a forever home in a Florida tiny house community, with stairs short enough that at 4'11" she can stand up straight in her loft.

πŸšͺ A 1942 Cabin Sided With Old Doors​
New this morning: at Camp V in Naturita, Colorado, uranium-mill engineers’ cabins were opened into bright studios, and the leftover interior doors became the siding.

🌾 A Century-Old Barn, Now a 650 Sq Ft Cottage​
In Woodstock, New York, the hand-hewn beams stayed, the ground floor became one open room, and the whole upstairs is a bedroom with windows over the fields.

πŸ’΅ Going Tiny, Part 7: How People Pay for It​
Today’s free chapter maps the ways readers pay for a tiny home, from cash and phased builds to RV loans, chattel loans, and HELOCs, and which fits which kind of house.

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
~ John Howard Payne

Thank you very much πŸ™
​ Alex

This is Tiny House Newsletter Issue #4249

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