Trailer Delivery Scheduled!

Our finished trailer!

We are getting so excited!

After a loooong wait (Tiny House Basics said the manufacturing company had the axles on back order) the trailer is finally scheduled to arrive on August 7th. The pad at Abbie's parent's house in Granbury, where we will be parking it for the build, won't quite be ready, but a week after the trailer gets here the pad should be ready as well.

That's just in time for all the summer and fall trips we have planned... Yay! But that only leaves 4 weekends (two of which are half weekends) between trailer delivery and November to work on our new home. Therefore we have elected to wait until November to get started with the build :/ At that point we will hit it hard!  And according to Abbie, no more vacations until we finish!

Working on a SketchUp Model

We haven't posted in a while, so we thought we should post an update. As the title of this post states, Drew has been working on a SketchUp model of our tiny house. SketchUp is a free 3D modeling software that is very useful for planning out exactly how much space we have for everything, and it is very accurate. So we are going into as much detail as possible to make sure that we don't run into any issues during the build. Lots of other tiny house DIYers use SketchUp for the same reasons and it is turning out to be a very helpful tool. Here are a couple of screenshots from SketchUp to show our progress on the design (note that this is still a work in progress!).

Front of the house (passenger side of trailer) with a yellow door for Abbie :)

Front of the house with the sheathing, siding, and interior paneling off to show the framing

Back of the house (driver's side of trailer) with all the hookups down on the far end

Back of the house with sheathing and siding off (but the interior paneling on) to show the framing

View of livingroom from the kitchen

View of kitchen from the livingroom

View of the bathroom from the back of the house (it's hard to get it all in one pic)

View of the livingroom and secondary loft from the sleeping loft

View of the kitchen and sleeping loft from the secondary loft

As you can see we still have a little bit to do. None of the cabinets are finished, but we just wanted to put their outlines in the model to see how much room we had for our things. You may have noticed some brightly colored boxes with writing on them stuck in places around the house. Those are just place holders for our things. We are measuring everything that is going in the tiny house and making sure there is a place for it. At this point we really just want to make sure that we don't need to alter any of the framing. That way we can be super confident that our framing we've outlined here will be exactly what we need.

Hopefully this gives you a better idea of what we are planning for our house and lets you know what we've been up to!