High School to Build Tiny House
February 28, 2010 · Print This Article
Sue Danic spent summers in her gram’s pre-World War I cottage and ever since, she’s wanted a tiny house. She’s seen it all: straw-bale, cob, rammed earth, cabins, sheds, tree-houses. Or, at least, she’s bought the book, visited the website or attended the workshop. In 2009, Sue traveled to New York City to attend Jay Shafer’s tiny house building seminar. Eureka. She hit gold. Since, she couldn’t build on her gram’s land, a tiny house on wheels would solve her first problem. Problem Number two was building the thing. Sue has almost zero talent in building. Sure, she’s built a table and even a bench, but a project of this size was beyond her grasp.
Enter Bob St. Cyr who teaches construction and cabinet making at Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School (KCI). This was a project that Bob thought his construction and cabinet making classes could accomplish under his guidance. The plan is to build the entire structure in one semester. The students will not only build and finish the interior, but they will blog about their accomplishments while building the Fencl.
Amazing! Will you post a link when they put up their blog?
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Tumbleweed Houses reply on March 1st, 2010 10:38 pm:
definitely yes… just as they start blogging, we will link their site here.
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just as they start blogging, we will link their site here.
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Good work, keep us posting, you are good writer.
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I want to start my first website, what cms do you use and recommend for me ?
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I see a lot of interesting articles here. Bookmarked for future referrence.
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Your website looks good, what template is this ?
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In high school they had a home building shop class that would build outdoor sheds, I was invited to the teachers house for a party and he had a huge number of different styled sheds in his back yard. Much better idea these people have.
Also would you consider adding to your small house plans this style with a ‘cat slide roof’
http://www.antiquehome.org/House-Plans/1924-Bilt-Well/24bw-4205.htm
and this like style, the tall roofs needed for upstairs space looks well suited to tiny houses.
http://www.antiquehome.org/House-Plans/1924-Bilt-Well/24bw-4235.htm
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Good work, keep us posting, you are good writer.
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Just want to tell you that your blog content is interesting, but you must improve site design
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Great info, thanks for useful post. I am waiting for more
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