Tiny House Path

If you're here, it's likely from a post I made on www.reddit.com/r/tinyhouses yesterday. We're not complete strangers to small houses, but packing all 4 of us into one will surely be an adventure. When my husband and I moved in together, it was into a fairly large apartment for two people. Two bedrooms, kitchen, formal dining room, huge living room and bathroom. When I became pregnant with my oldest son, we moved out of the hood and into the tiniest house we'd seen up to that point.

It was a converted carriage house. While technically two bedrooms, the second bedroom was just big enough to hold a twin bed and small desk. The bedroom we used help a king sized bed and dresser. The downstairs was an open living space, and tiny kitchen and bathroom. The pull to that house for us was a massive stockade fenced back yard. We LOVED that little place! And had we not moved for a job change, we'd still be living there.

When we moved to the area we live in now, we moved into the coolest little cottage community. www.boicevillecottages.com for anyone interested. Whimsical is an understatement. These houses are built with construction grade materials, sustainable, and the landlord is awesome. Plus, his wife is the lady who took over for Dear Abby. The issue for us is the price. We live near Cornell and two other colleges, and the rent here is obscene. This little place ran us $1400/month.

This is the actual cottage we lived in. That's our snow shovel. ;-) I know they aren't everyone's cup of tea, but I loved living in a lime green house. So fun.

So, we moved last spring from the candy shack to the apartment we are in now. 1200sqft. Three bedrooms, one bath, living room, dining room, and kitchen. All the rooms are spacious, too spacious in fact. I'm realizing as we go that we have been filling these rooms with nonsense. Toys that never get played with, things we never use, closets full of clothes we never wear.

Well, all that is changing. all of it. Because while our ultimate goal is to build our own home, our current goal is to simplify our life.

So there's where we've come from. And I want you to join us while we see where we're headed!