Tiny House Inspiration

Well, we have bought all the citristrip paint stripper from our hardware stores and now they have to re-order it! It won't be in 'till Monday so not much work going on in Blue this weekend. It's a soaker up here on the island, so it's a good weekend for couching and tea-drinking. Blue is coming along though. We have a large chunk done:

 The white endcap is fiberglass, so will remain painted...haven't decided on the color

J is a fan of trying to remove paint in all in one piece - this one was his biggest yet! It is a good thing we are not any shorter, or scraping the ceilings would really stink.

Our friend Michael moved back to the island for the winter (yay!) and we went and visited him at his new place. He is living on kind of a compound - very cool! Peggy, whose daughter is the violinist in the Colorado-based band, Elephant Revival, also lives on the compound, and last week, her tiny Tumbleweed house arrived. We have of course looked at lots of Tumbleweed Houses online but have never been in one! So we all meandered over to her place and Peggy graciously showed us her new tiny home on wheels. It gave us hope that our messy, sort of toxic, trashy-trailer will someday be homey inside :)

A Tiny Tumbleweed House, about 7.5' x 14' with a loft!

Cozy, cozy, cozy

Climb the ladder to the loft. Peggy wants to build a tiny permanent staircase instead.

Canned goods are great in tiny kitchens too :)

Just Keep Scraping...

That's what we keep telling ourselves...just keep scraping. We have unanimously decided that stripping/scraping paint in the airstream really stinks, there is no doubt about it. We've moved onto the ceiling and I am remembering how much work it was for my mom to scrape the 1980s "popcorn" texture off of the ceiling in our entire house when I was young. We are still chugging away though, hoping to have it done by thanksgiving. I think we are going to kind of cheat and not scrape paint where we are just going to put up cabinets or things. After they shipped us the wrong thing, our plastic razor blade holders finally arrived, which have made the job a heck of a lot easier on our hands. (Our local ACE hardware sells the blades, but only a teensy crappy holder that gives you a hand cramp!)

In the meantime, lots of ideas float around in our heads about the layout and design, flooring options, wood stoves, etc. I have even been contemplating installing a living wall in there - my own personal mobile garden! It's all a bit daunting and overwhelming at times, especially when progress is slow.

The true Land Yacht? Jacob found this on our recent visit to Fort Collins :)

Lovely November day on the island yesterday, we watched the 'Round the County Sailboat Race from our house and from South Beach in between scraping coats of paint off Blue Moon.