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This is a ten-foot-square utility space with two windows and a ten by four foot porch. Total space under roof, one hundred and forty square feet. It took four days to be built by an experienced carpenter and helper with about three thousand dollars worth of new materials and some scrap. The door had been ordered then abandoned by a no-show customer and was designed to open outward. The clever carpenter got it for a good price, then inverted it. There's nearly a foot of roof overhang on all four sides of the building. It will protect the window sashes opened from the top during a rain storm. The overhang also protects the stained sidewalls of the structure. Built in the spring of 2004, it served all that summer as a guest lodge for the children of down-state visitors and sometimes their parents. This November '04 picture captures the first flakes of snow to fall on the little bunk. The forty pictures following give nearly step-by-step visual instructions of how to build a tiny house. Perhaps this will be a tipping point for some of you who have long wanted to build a standalone space on your favorite bit of ground. Captions for these pictures will follow when time allows. A.J. Sutherland designed the bunkhouse on a piece of scrap pine. He was also the carpenter. His helper was Hank DeYoung who provided the extra hands on the project, took most of the pictures and provided TinyHouses.net with the images. Many thanks to both of them for sharing this project. If you find this kind of project useful, let us know by writing: housemaster@tinyhouses.net | |||||
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