Category: Tiny House

• The Goldilocks Windows

  Designing and building a tiny self contained house disguised as a wing, with a chicken coop as its influence,  has been both a challenge and a delight.  Of course I am not doing the actual building. I was speaking metaphorically. The Kiwi Builder is doing all the building with a sure input to the structural…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 22, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Photography, Tiny House

  Barn, building a tiny house, hammer, home shcooling, ice storm, milk for lambs, peacock images, windows

• The Coupe Rises and a Wee Walkabout (Part One)

  Yesterday was a very big day in the project to build a self contained cabin attached to the house. It is called the Coupe because I styled it on the old chicken coops that used to be in the farmyards of every farm around here. Using the sun to warm it and design to cool…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 17, 2013

  Farming, Humour, Life, Tiny House

  border collie, designing new spaces, granny flats, hereford heifer, herefors pigs, retirement houses, space and light, The kitchens garden project, tiny cabins, Tiny Houses

• The Tiny House – First Drawings

  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…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 19, 2012

  Farming, Life, nanowrimo, Tiny House

  Nanowrimo, pea hens, The tiny House

• An exciting development

  We had all these plans for yesterday. I even made a list. Silly me.  Three things intervened.  Firstly it rained. Hard.   An inch fell. I am not complaining about that.  Then  the milking parlour pump spat the dummy. It did a proper job this time too.             So I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 14, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming, Tiny House

  builders, chicken coop, designs, granny flat, rain