Our Tiny Porchouse!

Well, last weekend things really started to come together with the Porchouse. If you drove by, you would assume it has always been a cabin. Don't be fooled, our tiny Porchouse was once just a porch, connected to a mobile home.

 

Tiny Houses are really popular right now, as more people are trying to get back to the simple way of life. If you don't have the room, you don't have the junk. Nuff' said!  Anyways, if you don't know what they are, visit the Tiny House Blog or Tumbleweed Tiny House Company.

 

While our Porchouse is obviously larger than these, not by much. So we decided to take some of the interior concepts and space saving techniques from the Tiny Houses, to incorporate into our own floor plan inside of the Porchouse. I plan to fill you in on the various ideas we have for the inside of this masterpiece, including the AMAZING bathtub idea!

 

Back to making this porch look like a tiny cabin. As you know, we were able to use the boards from the shed to put on as siding. C and I had the day off on Good Friday and headed up early to the property. After all, we weren't planning to do work on Easter Sunday, so this gave us a good two days to get things done.

 

RobSr. got right to work on putting up the board and batten on the side that faces the road:

 

Due to the varying sizes of the boards on the shed, they weren't level all the way across, no worries though, he had a plan!

Almost done with Side One!

 

The boards for around the windows needed cut. Enter: the cutting station:

 

 

C continued to remove the remaining boards from the shed and I de-nailed them and put them on the trailer frame so that RobSr. could easily take the sizes that he needed.

 

 

 

 

Obviously, all this work means a coffee break is long over due. The Greek and his Wife came for a visit and thought we could use a good laugh, thus posing for this photo:

 

Yes, that is the toilet from the mobile. The only thing we haven't been able to burn or scrap.

 

Meanwhile, back at the Porchouse, things were wrapping up quite nicely. And the RobSr. was adding the battens.

 

Remember when I mentioned the unevenness?? PROBLEM SOLVED

Isn't it charming???

Framing in the last window

 

All the boards are officially off of the shed and C was denailing and helping to install the board and batten now.

 

Ta-Da...now it looks like a pavillion. We still haven't decided the best method to tearing this down yet.

 

As darkness fell, RobSr. was determined to have three sides done! The cutting station was rigged with a hillbilly light.

 

 

 

We decided to close up shop after the boards were on side three.