Woman Builds Her Own Extra-Wide Tiny House, With No Experience
Compared to what it was a decade ago, the tiny house movement has become kind of a big thing now in popular culture, with tiny house television shows, websites, and books galore, as well as a wide variety of professional tiny house building companies now offering turnkey tiny homes to those with the cash.
One may be deceived by the current trend toward “tiny house bloat,” but at its roots, the tiny house movement has always been about simpler lifestyles and a do-it-yourself ethos of self-reliant resourcefulness that results in one gaining more financial and psychological freedom—namely from the dreaded conventional mortgage and the tyranny of stuff.
Floral designer Carina Inka is one of these back-to-the-roots tiny house DIYers, who recently finished building her own tiny house, after a two-year period of researching, designing, and constructing. Inka is one of those brave souls who undertook their tiny house journey with no construction experience at all, learning and refining along the way. But the results speak for themselves, as we can see from this tour of her simple and beautiful tiny home via Exploring Alternatives:
