Also, with the magnitude of investment that a tiny house trailer is, now it's going to be hard to turn back! Everything is getting very real, and that's scary. But it's also very exciting! Over the course of the next "3-4 Weeks", while the trailer is fabricated and delivered, I'll be headed over to lumberyards, home improvement stores, and placing orders online for materials; we also are going to spend this time trying to acquire any tools that we can by borrowing from friends and family.
Head over to the "budget" page for some idea of what we intend to purchase, if you're interested. It's mostly what you'd expect, with the caveat that we've decided on materials that are a little bit more environmentally friendly ("environment" both in terms of lower embodied energy where possible, and in terms of low/no VOCs where possible). Those materials will cost a premium, which will in turn slow down our construction process some: I can't pay in cash for everything yet (but hope to save enough money from my job as construction proceeds). But I believe it will all be worth it in the end. Maybe we'll only end up staying in the JR House for a few years, or maybe it will be much longer. Who knows? Either way, we're excited to build a home to live in that's made of materials we at least researched and chose consciously.
On a separate note, Sketchup drawings are pretty much as finished as they're likely to ever be. I just have to get some good screen grabs and type up some accompanying descriptions, and then you can get the first look!
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