February 11, 2014
Subtitle: One salvaged window and three tattered pieces of foam board
After years of contemplating the building of a tiny home of my own, and one disappointing false start, there was some doubt in my mind that I would ever see the dream through. I moved to Portland a few weeks ago to live with new friends who are housing me and lending me space based on my proposal to build a tiny house in the backyard. Expectations of follow-through are upon me! I find this daunting, but also motivating and exciting. Daunting, because this mobile cabin project poses many challenges; motivating and exciting, because I know I won't let myself and others down. The stage is set for success despite the potential bumpy road.
Subtitle: One salvaged window and three tattered pieces of foam board
After years of contemplating the building of a tiny home of my own, and one disappointing false start, there was some doubt in my mind that I would ever see the dream through. I moved to Portland a few weeks ago to live with new friends who are housing me and lending me space based on my proposal to build a tiny house in the backyard. Expectations of follow-through are upon me! I find this daunting, but also motivating and exciting. Daunting, because this mobile cabin project poses many challenges; motivating and exciting, because I know I won't let myself and others down. The stage is set for success despite the potential bumpy road.
I approach this project as an experiment. One does not necessarily know how best to design an experiment, nor do they know with certainty its outcome. I'm on a steep learning curve with an independently supervised experiment. Challenges will be encountered and overcome, errors will be made and learned from. I remind myself that this fact is more than okay with me. Risk is a catalyst for growth, both of which are necessary ingredients for a well-lived life.
So far there has been a lot of thinking, drawing, talking, and reading, but nothing really tangible to signal to myself and others that this project is anything other than a pipe dream. I've been agonizing over the selection of a trailer and still have not ordered one. A trailer is the all-important foundation. To have a trailer lined up would be a concrete step in converting dream to reality. But today that step was achieved not by the purchase of a trailer, but by the acquisition of one salvaged window and 3 beat-up sheets of rigid foam insulation...
That my project begins with these 4 tangible items seems laughable. But holding my window and imagining looking out through it from a shelter that I personally constructed is exciting and galvanizing. Today I understood that this project will at last become a reality.
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