Sunday, December 29, 2013

Tiny House Plans A New Online Market Place For The Small Cabin Movement And Off Grid Lifestyle

No longer is it a chore to find quality tiny house plans and off grid living ideas. SmallCabinPlansOnline.Com has a extensive list of micro home blueprints and great ideas for living off the grid. Tiny house plans from SmallCabinPlansOnline.Com has been around since 2010, steadily gaining popularity. It appears now to have caught the attention of the folks at ShippingContainerHouseSites.Com. These people do their homework (on everything small cabin plans), so it's a good bet that this micro home plans company has gained their approval for good reason. SmallCabinPlansOnline.Com serves three broad categories of consumer tiny house blueprints: tiny house design, off grid ideas, and landscaping. For those concerned about rising energy costs, or those looking to live mortgage free to cite just a couple of examples, SmallCabinPlansOnline.Com has gained substantial new business, and for legitimate reason. Market Place was established three years ago by people with a passion for tiny house plans and off grid ideas. They not only understand the drive to practice the micro home movement, but they are also active participants in the tiny house lifestyle. SmallCabinPlans earnestly believes that true freedom comes from attaining a certain level of self-reliance, and the Online Market Place was created with this truth in mind. States Mark Rinds of CustomWoodworkingSite.Com, "The fact is, SmallCabinPlansOnline.Com is one of the leading vendors of its kind (perhaps THE leading vendor in tiny house plans period!), and has been showcased by Eric Michale and MakeFurnitureSmallCabin.Com. Like any successful company, it recognized a glaring need and fills the void by providing exactly what folks need to have in preparation for living the challenging tiny house lifestyle, easy gardening, or everyday 'off grid living ideas”. I can vouch personally for the completeness and ease of the tiny house plans with SmallCabinPlansOnline.Com - my wife and I are loyal customers. They really take the 'difficult' out of the small cabin building process." CustomWoodworkingSite.Com is a broad-sweeping review site, where author, editor, and person of many interests Mark Rinds shines the limelight on tiny house plans of every design. Mark has always been a bit of a Renaissance Man and seems to have a knack for nuance, so we suggest you tune in when he profiles a product for review. http://ardan123.livejournal.com/

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Choose Your Custom Home Plans Using These Guidlines

Deciding to live a lifestyle that is a little (no pun intended) unordinary is not an easy choice to make. Small Cabin Plans Online would like to give you four simple steps that will make your custom home plans come true. The first and frankly I think the most important is how many people will be living in the home, and how many people will be visiting the home? The second part of this question is a MUST to keep in mind. Creating a custom home floor plan so that sleeping and relaxing spaces for members of the family will keep your home design ideas from feeling too tiny. Also, remember what I was saying above? Thoughtfulness for visiting family members or friends is a must. Once your custom home plans are complete, they are going to want to visit your new tiny house. A reserved guest space should be worked into your chosen small cabin design. Is the space for your custom home plans divided up in a proper way. If your looking at saving a buck, most people look at the smallest custom home plans they can find, but take into consideration all the small cabin plans and how each room sectioned off. Do you want more private space? Do you want an open floor tiny house plan? Next, what type of landscape will you putting your tiny house? When I was begining my survey for my tiny house the landscape I chose was a wooded area the reason for this was simple I built my tiny house as a bug out shelter and I live in the midwest so rolling hills and woods is pretty much all there is. Consider both the style of the plan and the exterior of the custom home plans when building on your chosen site. Are you going to be living there full time? This is very important be sure that you take into consideration how you will use your new home when choosing your custom home plans. Custom Home Plans

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Turn Shipping Container Home Plans Into Big Spaces Employing Visual Tips

Use these easy sight tempting tips to turn your tiny house space into something bigger. Since the housing market is in the gutter, most people are looking to essentialy downsize their lives. Numerous individualse of the tiny house style, myself intermingled found the tiny house way of life to be much more challenging in the beginning. Even though small cabin existing can be a hassle at times the blessings of the this way of life far out way the negatives. To help with your adaption I have came up with some fairly straight forward simple tips that you can incorporate in your shipping container home designs to make this change much more pleasing for you. 1, Resize your Doors and windows – if you happen to be forming your small cabin making use of tiny house plans be sure to add bigger doors and windows this will supply a bigger feel to your tiny house properties. 2, Make it casual on the Accents – small spaces can not deal with a lot from crazy busy colors retain it subtle and your tiny house plans will by natural means seem bigger than they are. 3, Dulepurpose is a must – don’t just invest in things that are for a single a use. Be sure to purchase devices that do more than just one thing. 4, your new best friend Pocket Doors – Regular doors are clunky and take up a lot with space to use. Utilize your pocket door to save on space. 5, Collect like A Squirrel – clutter is bad! Keep your stuff in one place. Living in a tiny space you need all the space you can get. Keep your mess picked up and your shipping container home plans will look much larger. Hope these custom small cabin plan ideas help you to keep your small cabin a comfortable and clean living environment. For more clutter free tiny house plans checkout our link below: http://smallcabinplansonline.com/turn-tiny-house-plans-big-spaces/ Micro Home Plans

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Easy Woodworking Projects For Beginners

woodworking Woodworking Plans For Beginners - Woodworking Projects For Beginners - Beginner Woodworking Projects If you are one of those people who enjoys building woodworking crafts/projects and some basic carpentry skills this website will interest you in the same way that it did me. The site is Ted's Woodworking and it was the best that I have ever seen: http://smallcabinplansonline.com/woodworking Easy Woodworking Projects For Beginners - There are over 16,000 (!) woodworking plans which you can download instantly. You will not be disappointed with this one as I have tried some of the others and they were lacking in the instructions which they gave and were hard to understand. I wanted to try my hand at making some bunkbeds for my two kids so I came across this website and decided to give it a try. The advertisement that I found gave me the website for Small Cabin Plans Online Woodworking so when my curiosity got the better of me I clicked on to see what it was all about. Easy Woodworking Projects For Beginners was the originator of this site and is a professional woodworker so he knows what he is talking about. There were so many easy woodworking projects with this collection and you will not believe this but there are over 16,000 plans in the one package deal. This is really something to find that many all together. For someone like me who is just really starting to get involved with woodworking this was like letting me loose in a candy store and telling me I could have anything I wanted. That was my dream when I was a kid. Easy Woodworking Projects For Beginners Well I was very skeptical as there are all kinds of websites for the exact same thing and you have to be careful and I was wondering how one person could possibly get that many plans and easy woodworking projects blueprints put together but Small Cabin Plans Online did it. Micro Homes

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Tiny House Plans The Easy Way To Build A Micro Home

Shipping Container Homes Hey, I'm Eric David from SmallCabinPlansOnline.Com and I am going to build a small cabin using tiny house plans. the tiny house movement has been gaining huge popularity over the last few years particularly in the United States. That comes largely as a result of the recent economic recession where thousands of people have lost their homes. It's a little more than that though. It's not just for financial reasons that people are moving into small spaces. It's also about simplifying your life. The tiny house movement askes the question; if we get rid of the unnecessary things in our life what does that help make space for? Does living in a tiny house help make room for a bigger life? So... over the next few months we going to be designing and building a tiny house using tiny house plans. The house will be especially built for New Zealand's conditions. It will be totally off-grid, catch its own water generate its own electricity and even treat it's own waste materials. As you follow me on my journey you'll see the whole process not just of the tiny house plans design and build but as we make the necessary preparations to live a more downsized, eco-friendly life. We'll sell most or our possessions and get ready to to live off-grid in a space the size of our current living room. small cabin plans

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Custom Homes 220 SQFT Micro Home

-Good morning. Welcome to our tiny house custom homes. Our tiny barn on our tiny farm here in New England was built last year by a group of students from Yestermorrow Design Build School up in Warren, Vermont. We love it. -The students that designed it and built it, they didn't go crazy trying to pack a million little things in. It's open, it's airy. So when you're living in a very small house, you don't feel constricted. The kitchen and the dining room and the living room. One of the things that the students were trying to achieve was, even though this is a custom home it is still somewhat small house-- 227 square feet-- it still feels pretty big. I've been in here with 15 or 20 people, and believe it or not, it's not that crowded. The light fixtures are pretty interesting-- salvaged plumbing parts. I don't think that water comes out of those. I hope not. It's got a full oven set-up, salvaged steel backsplash. There's a nice set of drawers. There's cabinets above. Routed directly into the shelves above the sink are drainage holes, so we can put our clean dishes there, and they drain right into the sink—a nice way to save space. The bathroom. We've got a little sink, shower. The floor and bench where the toilet are are all made of rot-resistant wood, and there's a floor drain. So the whole room is actually the shower. The bedroom— I think it's just a classic small house bedroom. The bed is up a little bit higher, so you've got plenty of storage underneath-- drawers and a big hatch in the back. But it's not up so high that you have to climb up to get it. Again, this is one of those choices that they made that I think is so wonderful. It's a generous space. There's plenty of headroom, and you feel comfortable in there. This is an old Japanese technique for finishing the exterior of the building. Take cedar boards and, using a blow torch, char them until they are black. And then, scrape off the residue. And then, put a light coat of a natural oil on it. It gives it an amazing, rich brown color. Also, that charring seals the wood in, and it makes it essentially weather-proof. We've been really curious about creative ways to heat our custom homes. Inside the hay bales is wood chips and sawdust and a little bit of manure. We've got a pipe going in. It loops around and around and around. There's about 600 feet of pipe in here. And then, it comes back out again. We haven't hooked up the pump yet, but we hooked it up temporarily the other day, and the water that came out burned me. It's 150-degree water coming out of this thing. So we think a pile like this could easily heat a tiny house. We were looking to make an investment in energy for our custom homes. What we've bought, in a lot of ways, is people power. And that means having family and friends come, people come to help out on the farm and visit. For us, it's this energy of being able to host people, to have people come and participate in our little experiment here. Custom Homes

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Backyard Landscape Designs For Your Tiny House - Small Cabin Plans

Backyard Landscape Designs For Your Tiny House - Small Cabin Plans


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Friday, June 21, 2013

Wood Gas Stove For Small Cabin Plans

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Since our power system has become undependable due to heavy loads and unplanned interruptions, its smart to have a backup. In many parts of the country the winter weather can quickly kill if you lose the ability to heat your home. A wood gas stove is a good choice because they are extremely efficient, do not depend on imported gas or electricity, and can even be used to cook on. Wood gas stove heats up to 3,500 square feet, and with a homemade wood stove cook surface makes a great food stove as well. With a wood gas stove you can rest assured that you will stay warm and cozy no matter what happens to the power grid, and you will sleep well knowing that your wood gas stove is the most efficient wood gas stove available.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Make Furniture - How To Use A Lathe

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Now that you have a small cabin or tiny house the next step is using some easy woodworking projects for making furniture. One of the most used tools in making furniture is using a lathe. Here are step by step woodwork plans for making furniture with a lathe.

  1. Select a lathe suitable for your project.
  2.  Choose the lathe operation you are going to begin with
  3.  Select the correct cutting tools for your objective.
  4.  Learn the components of your lathe
  5.  Read your owner's manual before proceeding with actual lathe work for specific instructions, features and detailed safety instructions
  6.  Select a suitable piece of wood for your project
  7.  Square the stock
  8.  Cut the stock to the desired length
  9. Mark the center of each end of your stock, and position it between the lathe centers.
  10. Position the tool rest parallel to the length of the work piece, keeping it far enough back to allow the work piece to rotate without hitting it, but as close as possible.
  11.  Free spin, or hand turn the work piece to make sure it doesn't hit the tool rest
  12. Choose the knife you will use for the turning operation.
  13.  Turn the lathe on, making sure it is at the lowest speed setting
  14.  Feel the resistance of the cutting edge and watch the size of the chips being cut from the work piece
  15. Begin moving the cutting edge parallel to the rotation of the work piece, continuing to make a light cut along its length
  16. Continue pushing the tool into the stock gradually, in passes, so that you remove a roughly equal amount of wood with each pass.
  17. Stop the lathe frequently when you are just beginning, to check your progress, look for stress cracks in the wood, and clear debris which may begin to accumulate on the lathe bed.
  18.  Smooth the finished round work piece by increasing your lathe speed, and holding your cutting tool so it barely contacts the wood, then moving it slowly along the work piece’s length. 
  19. Sand the work piece when you are finished cutting if desired 
Hope these easy woodworking plans on how to operate a lathe was helpful in your making furniture venture. Please checkout our main site for more easy woodworking projects HERE

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