The reworked, modern Shasta trailer. Haven’t had a chance to get into one until today. If I had my druthers, I’d fit a full-size live-in very much like this.
Category: tiny house
Off Grid Cabin
Spotted Over at Off Grid World was a post about a complete, off-grid cabin.
I think my interpretation of the word “cabin” differs depending on context as my first thought isn’t necessarily “shipping container”. Also the page seems rather light on details, presenting it as a concept drawing rather than an available product. Not much on ordering, amenities, etc.
RV Video-Walkthrough Drinking Game
If you happen to find yourself watching video walkthroughs of assorted RVs, perhaps this will kick up the entertainment factor a bit. Select a suitable beverage, start up a walkthrough video, and immediately prepare yourself to take a swig every time somebody:
- pounds their fist on any part of the RV
- makes any sexist remarks — for example, “mom will love this kitchen.”
- refers to a water heater as a “hot water heater”
- makes any reference to watching “the game”
Oh, there are more, but we’ll just start with those.
Tiny House-ish
I’m sure everyone’s seen variations on the tiny-house movement. We, too, love the Tumbleweed series (oh, the 24′ Elm or Cypress Horizon, yes, please) and, in fact, are planning on building one each for the youngest kids’ 16th birthdays.
Here’s one that popped up in the RSS feed, or maybe Facebook (don’t recall the source just yet) where the builder added a simple set of cabinets in the sleeping loft:
A couple of features that I’ve seen over the past few years tweaked my interest-o-meter — things I might add to such a house on wheels:
- dual sleeping lofts, with dormers over each. One queen-sized, the other possibly full-sized.
- the cabinet/partition wall in the loft for the queen space.
- the apartment refrigerators are neat, but I’d probably go with a nice dual-mode RV fridge to leverage propane.
- instead of a simple vent-hood over a cooktop, a combination microwave/convection oven with vent hood
- the storage stairs to a loft
- undecided on an RV-type furnace or an alternative intended for marine use. The RV furnaces tend to be rather noisy.
- a split-AC unit
- a compact washer/dryer unit
Oh, there’s more, but those are some of the details that interest me.
One big decision that I’ll need to make at some point is whether I should plan on making them Park models, requiring hookups at all times? Or instead make them RV models capable of fully self-contained use with fresh, grey, and black tanks; batteries; RV appliances and fixtures?
Crafty RV Makeup Caddy
Before we took our last long vacation, Daisy wanted a way to keep all of her makeup in one place in the trailer without having to fish around in makeup bags or take up counter space:
On the back of each container, a magnet, hot-glued in place. One floating magnet for the tweezers, then two magnet hooks to hold the pencils and applicators in the green basket.
The whole thing held to the wall with four small 3M picture-hanging Command Strips (here).
With all the road vibration in our little trailer, the only problem we had during our two week trip is that the cap for one of the eyeshadow products popped off.
the rest of me 