dragonlady7

I have really enjoyed scrolling through every plan on pinuphouses.com and looking at their tiny house, shed, cabin etc. plans. I don't actually love their aesthetic, particularly-- and the conceit is that each house plan is named after a different pinup girl? and often the 3d-renderings include a random woman in lingerie for scale, which is sort of, um. (I think the more recent plans have eased off that gimmick, but they do include artistic renderings of curled pinup posters stuck to the walls in even the newer renderings, which is sort of... like... implying you're building this garden shed to shag in, in a way that's sort of weird and faintly gross?) Anyway, currently this one is my favorite, a tiny house with tilted walls: Pentagon Cabin: Ann. If you ignore the way the human-figure-for-scale silhouette lying in the bed has zero details besides carefully-drawn breasts and fanned-out hair.

But anyway. The idea of a tiny house with a little loft bedroom and room for a couch downstairs to put Farmkid on is perfectly reasonable, though I also would really really like the idea of having a screened-in porch, because for most of the time I'm there, I'd get a bunch of use out of that. The main thing I was starting to chafe at, during my time in the yurt, was that I had nowhere to sit that wasn't in my bed, which is not exactly good ergonomically or from a, like, trying to do some writing now and then kind of perspective. But I also really wished I had an outdoor place to sit, safe from rain and bugs. So a screen porch is like... pretty high on my wishlist.

However, I was scrolling mindlessly through Pinterest last night and happened to see a floor plan that I realized was a carriage house. And it struck me, that'd be a really great approach to the sugar shack + small apartment concept. A small carriage house, with the utility shed on the lower floor, and an apartment on the upper floor. The one I saw even had a small balcony, which seemed absolutely fantastic. But.

Thinking about this has been entertaining, for sure, and will continue to be, but I do have to sort of interject that I am probably going to have to throttle back quite a bit on this whole concept. Like... I have a house. My personal budget for this is probably like a thousand dollars. My parents will undoubtedly insist on helping with this (they've loaned/given money/assistance to my sisters for various reasons, and have provided childcare and other logistics assistance to all three sisters also for various reasons-- naturally, more for the grandchildren's sake than anything else, but also for my childless sister, who's needed bailed out of a few things here and there and in general suffers from a combo of bad luck and poor money management and whose cat they've wound up with and so on-- and occasionally express to me that they feel bad that I'm so relatively neglected, and so will probably want to assist in this), and I'm glad to let them but I'm also really keen to keep it fairly minimal because honestly I don't actually need a beautiful vacation home on the farm, y'know? I just need a reasonably watertight guest bedroom.
Also my sister and BIL, the actual property owners, who would likely use the building for more than just housing me, have very little time or money to contribute to this, but should really have their wishes respected.
So...
My challenge is going to be to finish the daydreaming and extract out everything useful and realistic that I can get from it-- including if I find anything useful in the wild flights of fancy that are amusing me most-- and then make my little presentation on it, probably at Thanksgiving where my tiny-house-obsessed nephew will be present.

But that means I still have like a solid week free during which I can just daydream, so. I've requested some books from the library...