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Praise for
A Tiny Home to Call Your Own

I encourage you to take a look at The Tiny Home Book. I think it speaks to what our hearts long for...a place we can afford to live with love and laughter. All my life I have lived in small houses. My wife and I raised five beautiful children in a 1,200 sq. ft. house. And we owned that house. We were not strapped with a 30 year mortgage. We didn’t have to work night and day to keep a roof over our heads. We had time for children and for ourselves. “A Tiny Home” is for anyone who wants more time and less house. “A Tiny Home to Call Your Own” is a must read.
— Larry Haun, author, The Very Efficient Carpenter

This is the perfect book for a society living under the pall of half-million-dollar homes. Compact houses are cozy, affordable, energy-frugal, and easy to keep—a perfect choice for owner-builders and those who favor creativity over pretense.
— Richard Freudenberger, Publisher
BackHome Magazine

Continued Reviews for A Tiny Home to Call Your Own:

My imagination soared after seeing the quality and craftsmanship in the tiny homes during a photo shoot for Virginia Living magazine. These dwellings blend the wonder and imagination I loved as a kid with the environmental responsibility I embrace as an adult.
— Tyler Darden, Art Director
Virginia Living Magazine,
www.VirginiaLiving.com

More and more of us, myself included, are struggling to define the connections between who we are, and what our “things” say we are. Bigger is not necessarily better. More is not necessarily richer. We live in a society that has lost touch with the deep satisfied knowing of “enough”. Tiny Homes opens your thinking toward a down-to-earth, simple, quality, and yet elegant way of living we all long for. — April Getz, Facilitator, Coach and Speaker
www.ActingHouseofHealing.com, Calgary, Canada

Tiny Homes are one of the best answers I have seen to help with the continuing problems of urban densification without compromising quality of life. They add value and lessen the human impact to the environment. A smaller footprint reaps big rewards with Tiny Homes.
— Jill Marilley, City Engineer, Washington

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You can live in an attractive, aesthetically appealing, upscale house AND you can do it so that it is quality built, architecturally beautiful, highly marketable and profitable.

Small is beautiful and functional in housing. Smaller scale homes can be more livable, cozy, homey, enjoyable, low maintenance, and easy to clean. They can be more affordable and socially responsible than the current trend of "McMansionization" that is chewing up America. Some of them can be built on existing lots without requiring new land purchase. Impress neighbors with style and freedom rather than with large scale imperaonally built square footage.

• Anyone who wants less space to maintain in exchange for more time, freedom and money.

• For an elderly parent, student, or return-to-the-nest kid to have an independent place of their own, yet be close by.

• Your personal "get away" space, home office, professional work space, writer's or artist's studio or rental.

• As a starter home designed for future expansion as the family grows and money becomes available.

View Table of Contents and Introduction and Recipe for a Tiny Home

About the authors. Pat Foreman and Andy Lee are both Class A contractors in Virginia. They are experienced in permaculture, organic farming, sustainable landscapes and green development. They cofounded a co-housing development in Charlotte, Vermont. They are the creators of the publicized GreenWay Conservation Subdivision in Lexington, Virginia. They own and operate the Tiny House Company. They have been building houses together for over a decade. Andy has experience in home building since childhood. Both are passionate about green building, conservation development and tiny houses.

They are authors of the best selling books: Chicken Tractor: the Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil, Backyard Market Gardening, and Day Range Poultry: Every Chicken Owner's Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures.
They are writing the Tiny House Book Series with 4 more books in progress on tiny houses published by Good Earth Publications


A Tiny Home to Call Your Own
Living Well in Just Right Houses
by Patrica Foreman & Andy Lee

Table of Contents

About the Cover 2
Praise for a Tiny Home to Call Your Own 6
Introduction 14
Recipe for a Tiny Home 18
Chapter 1: Is a Tiny Home Right for You? 22
People Who Might be Interested in Tiny Homes 22
Uses for Tiny Homes 31

Chapter 2: Tiny Homes Can Help You Have More Time, More Freedom, and More Money 35
Ways You Can Save Money by Building a Tiny Home 38
Chapter 3: Tiny Homes and the People Who Love Them 40
Terri Bsullak’s Tiny Home 40
The Lane’s Shed Home 48
Ray Pealer’s Tiny House Trade Station 56
The Campbell’s Combined Work Shop and Garden Shed 60
Uncle Gene’s Tiny Home 64
Chapter 4: Tiny Houses We Have Built 68
Andy’s Weekender 68
Room for Guests 71
Sun Block House 73
Virginia Guest Cottage 74
Chapter 5: Tiny Homes to Go 76
What We Can Learn From the RV and Boating Industries 78
Park Trailer Classification 80
Copper Top Cabin 81
New England Style Tiny House 83
Small Log Cabin Homes 85
Tumbleweed Tiny Homes 88
Chapter 6: Expanding A Tiny Home with Do-It-Yourself Construction 91
Chapter 7: Clutter Control and Stuffology 110
Redundancy Causes Chaos 113
Closets and Stuff in Tiny Houses 116
Garages and Stuff 117
Ways to Find New Homes For Stuff – Profitably 126
Organizing Stuff 131

Chapter 8: Ecology and the Tiny House Movement 134
Ecological Areas of Concern 134
Ramifications of Large Houses 135
Alternatives to Building with Wood 138
Chapter 9: Conservation Subdivisions and Cottage Communities 148
Conservation Subdivision Design 149
Being a Community 155
Environmental Considerations and Home Characteristics 156
Increased Appreciation and Premium Resale Values 158
Chapter 10: Rainwater Harvesting From Your Tiny Home 159
Water Needs and Harvesting Ability 161
How Much Water Can You Harvest From Your Roof? 163
Locating Your Storage Tanks 166
Storing Harvested Water In Ponds 167
Chapter 11: Can Tiny Houses Help House the Unhoused and Inappropriately Housed? 168
Inappropriately Housed 169
Housing the Unhoused 169
Frequently Asked Tiny House Questions 175
Tiny House Glossary & Evolving Definitions 178
Resource Guide 185
Bibliography & References 187
Index 197
About the Authors 204

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