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
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51 responses to “The Tiny House – First Drawings”
Oooh a book snipping! Lovely to see the peahens 🙂
I love the way you multi-task the multitude of daily & farmy tasks, words and coupe project – at least you don’t have to look far to find project managers 😉
The plans look great, Celi. And congratulations on all those words!
I love it! Such an exciting project to mull over and twiddle with and otherwise savor!
Enjoy the editing: such a joy and satisfaction to know the basics are in the bag and now one can let the magic of cutting and pasting and addding and subtracting commence. Love the shape of the ‘coupe’: I am a totally thwarted architect: was drawing house plans instead of playing with dollies by 5-6! Funny world: seem to have done all else in my life but put people in houses 😀 !
The more I see of the cCupe, Celi, the more I like it. I’m sure The Matriarch is going to love it. So will the pea hens if you’re not careful! 🙂
Hope you enjoyed your day off yesterday. We could not have asked for better weather. Have a good evening, Celi.
What a great little house, I’m sure the Matriarch is pleased as punch! I can’t believe the luminescence you were able to achieve on the birds, very nice. Congrats on the writing too, I have a blogging friend in California who is suffering from a block, maybe you can send some positive writing her way!
Yay on NaNo! And way ahead of schedule. Good for you! Love those peafowl. The Tiny House is looking good. I should show it to my daughter, maybe she will build one for me some day. 🙂
Oh Celi! Where in California is your stop-over?
Congratulations on finishing phase one of the writing! It will be so exciting to cut & paste and start making it shine. I love the Coupe. It’s like a little Kiwi house, and even reminds me of a little country wooden church with parish hall attached – though that may not be the association you were thinking of. What fun to be planning this, and I can’t believe you found a kiwi builder! Does he say ‘four-bi-two’ and you know what he means? And many other Kiwi-isms no doubt. Does he say ‘she’ll be right’, when you are wondering about some detail? (I find this very funny, as you can see).
😀 ! Hey, these are very much Australianisms as well! Actually thought the whole English-speaking world used them 🙂 !
Congratulation on obtaining your writing milestone! A great feat. Now you can concentrate on your houses…
I love your concept drawings. How exciting to be working with a builder/designer who is interested in making sure the house is designed to take advantage of aspect etc to lower heating bills etc. And congrats on completing the writing challenge. What an enormous accomplishment xx
Won’t all the chickens want to live in that chic new hen house? 😉
Wow, Congrats on Nano and thanks for stopping by my blog. I am detemined to finish mine. And, now you have given me hope that I can. Thanks again.
You most certainly can finish.. not too far now! c
Celi,
So much excitement on the Farmy! Congratulations on your first draft completion, and on your rough sketch of the Coup. ~Lynda