

5 things to know before you buy an IKEA kitchen
The kitchen in our small house is IKEA for MANY reasons, chief among them was that we could do it ourselves. We could measure, we could...


Don't forget the TRIM!
Trim is an often overlooking but important part of siding. Trim can enhance the style and beauty of your home and make your neighbors say &q


Free House Plan: Modified Beekeeper's Bungalow
While this project is still in progress, I wanted to go ahead and finish up the house plans to share ahead of our completion. This...


Designing a Small Living Room
Designing a small living room is a larger task than I had envisioned. Fact: It is the main room of the house Fact: It is the first room...


Making a small house feel LARGER
In a small house everything plays its part from multitasking walls to storage packed furniture. The design of a small house is a...


Small House Project: Metal Roof & Structural Siding
Siding is complete and only the finishing touches are needed on our standing seam metal roof. Now that our roof structure is complete and...


Lighting the House!
I set myself a real chore when I started the lighting plan for our small house. It has been months and I am still dry washing my hands...


Fitting a family in 1000 Sq. Ft.
A few people have asked how I am planning to fit my family of four into 1000 Sq. Ft. (I know most people have thought this without...


Heating and cooling our small house for under $2,000!
I caught a small part of an episode of Property brother’s today at the dentist office and as I was sitting there enjoying one of the few...


Putting a roof on it!
We are ready to begin our roof. Once the walls were up, we began prepping the ridge beam. This ridge beam will support our open ceiling...