The Kiwi Builder and I have been spending a lot of time arranging and rearranging walls and condensing, decanting and extending ideas.
The pea hens watch us at work from the verandah. 
In fact yesterday the doors were left wide open, because it was another beautiful day and Pania and Kupa, being the opportunist peafowl that they are, just walked inside, through the kitchen and up to the table to inspect the drawings themselves. The matriarch is still calling it the Chicken Coupe and, as you can read, I have changed the spelling of the Chicken Coop to ‘Coupe.’ For my own amusement of course. And hopefully to discourage any birds from thinking it is THEIR new house.
I have taken these little preliminary images from the computer screen. Next time I shall consult with my IT team and come up with better versions for you.
I am especially thrilled with the rooflines. The little box on the side will join to the house and have a bathroom in it with a glass corridor as an inside entrance to the Coupe. 
This View (from the West ) shows you the Verandah on the left (North side) that will run around in an L shape and join the existing porch on the front of our house. Giving another entrance. The raised area you see will be a screened porch, and french doors into the Tiny House. This will extend the living areas.
This next view is from the South side. The ridge at the top of the roofline is designed to let in winter sun, there will be windows across that top eave, and the eave will shade the summer sun. My builder has read of a man in Chicago who has designed a little house that is entirely warmed and cooled through its design, using the environment (and a lot of mathematics) not electricity, and we are aiming at a similar concept, though the floor will be heated for really cold periods. 
Next we will draw in the windows and doors. As usual I have too many doors. I hope this is not too confusing the next drawings will be even more exciting. Plus we will have the final floor plan soon.
The cladding on the Coupe will be vertical white wooden barn timbers, which will sit well with the house which has horizontal cladding and match the out buildings which have the vertical. The windows and doors will all be trimmed in recycled barn timbers. I have found an old wooden floor stored in someone’s shed. I do look forward to showing you the pictures of the Coupe with its doors and tall church style windows.
On the grass you can see a screen from one of the top windows; it was blown down in the big winds the other day. It is on it’s way to the rat house where I store things I might have a use for but don’t yet know what that use may be. 
Good morning. It got even warmer than this yesterday. And I believe we still have a few more days of glorious weather. Do you think it might last until the Third of December, when you and I fly out to California on the first stage of our International Wanderings?
The Writing has reached and surpassed the goal of 50, 000 words. Nanowrimo was an excellent challenge. (I am ready to hand in my manuscript for counting on the first date – 25th of November). I know now that I can create the draft for a book in 18 days. And that knowledge is very powerful. I am starting at the beginning again now, going through to make it more coherent, adding all the new passages here and there. So far it is very one dimensional and way too linear. Then I will print it and chop it up into chapters, using good old fashioned scissors and pen and sticky tape. Then back to the computer screen to begin the real work of editing, extending and magicking.
I am working on an excerpt for you. Just a tiny taste for your perusal.
I hope you all have a lovely day.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
51 responses to “The Tiny House – First Drawings”
Wow, the tiny house looks really exciting. Congratulations on reaching 50,000 words in eighteen days – that is some achievement. And apologies for pressing the like button so many times my computer is very slow and I didn’t think it had register the first like.
I keep seeing programmes on TV here about passive houses – expensive but worthwhile. It looks gorgeous…will you be taking PGs? (Paying Guests!)
I think celi needs to start a booking system 😉
Oh wow Miss C – sometimes I think that you must have some kind of time machine, to accomplish so much with your days!
Wow–the design of the little house looks very interesting: quite modernist, really–no longer a gingerbread house!
You are really incredible. Congrats on so many achievements. Amazing.
You are a writing machine, Miss C! Can’t wait to see a bit of the novel. How you’ve accomplished that with everything else you do, I can’t imagine. I’m too easily distracted. I love the Coupe; I would love something similar, actually, in our back yard to use as a studio (writing, but I also have this unsatisfied yen to paint!).
It’s good to have an extra (pea) eye on drafts of housing plans, don’t you think? The little Coupe looks very cool and I can’t wait to see more of it, as well as the excerpt from your book. Congrats on writing it in 18 days…that is really awesome, celi! 🙂
Drawings are beautiful – I think the clever thingy you are doing with the eaves, is oh so clever, and beautiful for the beholder.
Love that you took literal screen shots….. is there anyway you can save the drawing (presumably in CAD or some other architecture type programme) and do a save as…. jpeg/adobe, whatist thingy ?
You are busy constructing all sorts of things.
People used to pay more attention to the environment and build appropriately: window on opposite sides of house to take advantage of prevailing winds, window positioned to take in warmth from sun in winter – but shaded by porches or wide overhangs during our broiling summers – even open “dog trot” corridors through the middle of houses to create a tiny wind tunnel for hot weather days ( but those were cold in winter!). Our last house had a rood line like that – the windows up high were so wonderful – although kid worried vampires would peek in at night.
Really interested in your projects: words and wood! Glad you have local supervisors keeping a bird’s eye on it all
Congratulations! I am so happy for you, both for the Coupe and for NaNo!
I adore the pictures; the shadings on the pea-hens; is that what you call them, the gutsyness and the nerve of going straight into the kitchen, and i adore the house. I live in 2 room pool house with my husband, and it’s in a fancy schmancy part of town, low rent, we live on small income, and i’m so grateful, but at times i surf the computer waves for photos of small livable spaces and pug dogs; at the moment – pugs are ahead; what can i say; i go weak in the knees when I spot one; total best wishes and kudos on your novel; i’m working on my last year’s Nano; it’s going slowly; get too distracted;but who knows!@
Oh Cinders…your little coupe is so nice…even on paper…to look at! It will be absolutely beautiful when finished, I’m sure!! Who wouldn’t want to live there?? Love that your peas are keeping an eye on things and congrats on your writing…you are so talented…in so many ways!!
I just had the most delightful conversation with a young girl from NZ. I was putting in an order for a Christmas gift and I got her as my contact! I was delighted! And she even KNEW where I lived —which is a huge surprise—how she came about living in the USA is she worked for an Adult Beverage Company, they sent her all over the world and even to Grand Junction and parts of our little county (we have lots of wine here). Eventually she grew tired of the travel and took a job in California. What a Hoot!
Linda
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Nice, nice, nice. Bet you’re so looking forward to a space of your own. I love having my own spaces in Vancouver and Oxfordshire. Also love that I can have stargazer lilies in my studios as Robert finds the scent too strong but I love, LOVE it. (There, you can see how a space of one’s own is a benefit, don’t have to antagonize your love with flowers.) 🙂
Congratulations on surpassing your writing goal, but I never doubted you for a moment, c! Love, love your new house drawings.. I can’t wait to see it materialize!! xx