The how we got here is a long drawn out story that not many want to hear, but what I will tell you is the fun and challenging parts!
Not to say it did take us a while to discover what a health community and a real family are and so there was over a period of years letting things go, worldly possessions and yes people.
Slowly though our apartment Soren and I would go collect unneeded/unloved and excess stuff and take weekly donations to the ARC. We often through our quiet times together would talk about our future house and day dream out loud of the things we wanted to include i.e. Sabina wanted a garden with a green house, Soren enjoys his comic books so we talked about a comic themed man cave.
As 2017 drove on my health from the stoke kept declining to the point where I went on disability from work in august. The “dream home” suddenly stopped become a dream we wanted to come true and we focused even deeper into the fact that our purpose here on earth isn't to be wrapped up in the things but to be wrapped up in helping others change their negative mindset into something that will help this world and future generations.
October we found the term for our “lifestyle” called minimalist. We really don't own much and don't have the desire to...we want to own memories not things. At this time we also realized owning a home would not be something we would do...the typical “American dream” was not ours to have...but ágain we aren't like most typical Americans. I've never really enjoyed clothes shopping (I only go when I have to or my mother tags me along.) But watching various YouTube videos of minimalism we also stumbled upon videos of tiny homes.
Tiny homes have come up in our lives many times and each time we both thought about how much fun it would be to live in one.
The thing that stuck me every time was the loft bedroom...it just seemed very inconvenient to me. I don't want to prep my bed every night either...my bedroom must be it's own space.
We started interviewing various builders of tiny homes and stumbled upon one in where we enjoyed their company and energy….Tiny Diamond Homes. Sabina had a conversation with her mother about what we were going to do and after a conversation with Jesse (sabinas dad) they came to us with a different concept.
You see land in Urban Colorado is pricy, there are ordinances that prohibits tiny homes from parking in certain areas so my parents thought why not convert their 1 car 228 sqft garage into a tiny home.
What a perfect idea!!
Out came the graph paper and window shopping. This would be ideal as we would be there to assist as my parents aged, we would have our tiny home and I get a bonus with a garden and greenhouse!
So more to come on this project and we will try to include pictures and videos going forward...so cheers to our tiny home the Thoreau Terrace!
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