The Mobile Hermitage is a freestanding moveable miniature house that operates entirely from battery power. This totally functional diminutive dwelling is an all-season habitat large enough for one or two (very compatible) adults. (via hermitary.com)

Someday, whatever Mrs The Wife says, we are going to live in a Tumbleweed Tiny House.

1. I love those little houses and have thought about them many times. For years I’ve had a half-baked idea to build a tiny house out in my field, next to a big pond (that hasn’t been dug yet). To be honest, though, the tiny house in my vision is sort of a tiny little pub, rather than living quarters, although I’m sure after drinking a pint or two it would be nice to fall asleep there. In front of the roaring fireplace (also unbuilt).

   
   

   — Keith · Jun 30, 10:45 AM    #

2. A pub for one! There’s a great essay in one of Robert Finch’s books (I think it's in Common Ground but possibly Death of a Hornet?) about spending the night in a vacant shack on the dunes of Cape Cod. That’s something I’d love to do someday, though I don’t think those shacks are allowed anymore now that the dunes are protected.

   So first I’ll have raise some dunes, then build a shack…

   
   

   — steve · Jun 30, 10:50 AM    #

3. My own tiny pub inspiration came after visiting this little pub years ago. A small, rough-hewn bar, a few comfortable over-stuffed chairs, and the entire place relaxingly lit by the fire in the giant fireplace, which if memory serves me correctly, took up nearly one entire wall of the small building.

   
   

   — Keith · Jul 2, 03:04 PM    #

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