Following my first year here, I published a hard cover photo book of sights from construction and and history of the 80 acres that has come to be known as Two Mile Ranch. A PDF version lives on a couple of my sites, but I don’t think I ever put the link to it here.
Click for the PDF proof of the hard cover book
Bill and Sharon Kastrinos move to a small space is featured on Friday’s CNN, along with a link to accompanying “iReports” from citizen journalists about their move to smaller living. The CNN story also makes the connection to Jay Shafer of the Tumbleweed Tiny House. Shafer has recently been on a road show with his design.
The story does capture one essence of smaller living:
By sizing down, he says he’s living on a total of $15,000 a year. He doesn’t have to worry about not making a mortgage payment and gets to work a job that he enjoys.
“Living in a small house has allowed me to do what I love doing, which is designing more small houses,” he says.
He, too, has purged junk and other items, donating most of it to the Salvation Army and to friends. “It does feel good,” he says. “I don’t miss the extra books, the extra clothes I never wore.”
Leave it to a Yale grad student to capture the imagination of the media and bloggers everywhere about living small. US News ran the news item in one of their blogs, and the Virginia Gazette picked up the photos here
It’s blogged here at Jetson Green, and even moleskinerie.com. Elizabeth Turnbull’s reported $11,000, 144 square foot (plus loft) tiny house has about 12,600 hits on Google’s search engine when searching +tiny +house +student +turnbull.
According to the Hartford Courant
Exactly where she will place the Tiny House in New Haven is not determined, but Turnbull is talking with the city and the university about suitable sites. Turnbull said she is optimistic she’ll find a spot that is safe and convenient.
The takeaway for HobbyFarmLiving is it is possible to have safe, green, sustainable shelter on your beginning or existing property.
