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Nancy is a professor at a large, Midwestern university. She and her dogs spend summers on the shores of the northern Great Lakes. She's an architypal tinyhouse resident for at least that portion of the year. After discovering TinyHouses.net she wrote: Hi -- I love your website, and it's nice to see other tiny houses. Can my tiny house be considered too? My house serves as my home for 4 months a year, when I'm up doing my forestry research on the shores of the Great Lakes. It seems huge to me, even though it's only 12 ft by 20 ft, because for years I did my summer research out of a backpacking tent. Much of the time I and my husky live here. My husband and the other dog, Tiva, come up for frequent visits. When I bought the cabin three summers ago, it was 12 years old, but it was essentially an unfinished bunkhouse shell on a concrete slab. I had electricity and a phone put in, but no water (the lake is right there for swimming, and I get my drinking water from nearby artesian wells that bubble year round). Nearby friends helped me insulate and drywall it and paint it yellow with bright blue trim inside, so now it looks like a Swedish toy box. There's a composting toilet in a tiny closet, a sleeping loft for friends, 6 gallon blue plastic jugs for washing hands, and a woodstove for heat. Finally we built in bookshelves and a desk/kitchen table/dining room table. A futon serves as bed/couch/dog lounge. In the winter, my kayaks hang from the ceiling, and in the summer, the skis go into the loft. My car serves as my boathouse. Bears are everywhere, which means the garbage has to hide in the freezer until it's trash day. Maybe someday I'll make it a little bigger, with room for a bathroom, but for now I love its smallness. Anyway, an outdoor, wood-fired sauna makes a great place for a bath! Best, Nancy
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