Hi all,
Welcome to the beginning of our adventure. My name is Bex (Rebekah) and my partner's name is Tom. We are an English/Australian couple living in Melbourne Australia.
This blog is documenting from the very beginning of our journey to build and live in our very own Tiny House. If you don't know what a tiny house is, well, it's basically the creation of a small house generally on wheels, that fits within the RV weight and dimension restrictions. It's towable, moveable and liveable!
So a little about us: I moved across the world from my home in Bristol, England, almost 4 years ago. Im currently 27 years old and am working in the centre of Melbourne in a gorgeous little craft store. My passions involve every kind of craft imaginable, and second hand shopping (I'm constantly fighting my hoarding impulses). Tom was born here in Victoria, Australia and is 26 years old. He was unschooled with his 2 brothers in a beautiful little country town called Ruffy up high in the Murrindindi table-lands 2 hours out of Melbourne. Ruffy is a beautiful place, full of fields with huge boulders and lots of wild life. You will get to see more of Ruffy as our journey progresses. Tom and I met whilst working for a travelling festival tent in England and have been together for over 4 years.
So why would you want to make and build your own tiny house you may ask? Well, I can only speak for myself but for me personally there are SO many reasons that I get butterflies in my stomach every times I see a photo of a tiny house. Firstly I have always wanted to build my own house, growing up I avidly watched Grand Designs on the telly and particularly loved the cob houses or wooden houses made by their owner's hands. I have seen through others how peaceful and satisfying it can be living in a home that is build completely for your needs, this is not something that I have experienced in my 7 years of living in rental accommodation, i can assure you!
Another major reason is for financial independence, I am certainly not one of those people who love to work and get a real thrill out of working the 9-5. For me work has always been a bit of a drag and the less time spent earning my money, well, the better! Building a tiny house is an attainable way of building our own home, without having to have a mortgage or owning our own land. Both Tom and I do not have any savings and do not earn any where near enough to be considered for a mortgage even if we did want to tie ourselves down to that kind of a debt for the rest of our lives (we don't).
I will be documenting our journey to creating our tiny home via this platform, with the hope of connecting with other like minded tiny house dreamers and dwellers and to share any knowledge that we accumulate along the way. Tiny house building is certainly more common in the USA then it is here in Australia, so as we weave our way through this adventure we hope to support other Aussie folks to consider this way of life!
Until then,
Bex
Welcome to the beginning of our adventure. My name is Bex (Rebekah) and my partner's name is Tom. We are an English/Australian couple living in Melbourne Australia.
This blog is documenting from the very beginning of our journey to build and live in our very own Tiny House. If you don't know what a tiny house is, well, it's basically the creation of a small house generally on wheels, that fits within the RV weight and dimension restrictions. It's towable, moveable and liveable!
So a little about us: I moved across the world from my home in Bristol, England, almost 4 years ago. Im currently 27 years old and am working in the centre of Melbourne in a gorgeous little craft store. My passions involve every kind of craft imaginable, and second hand shopping (I'm constantly fighting my hoarding impulses). Tom was born here in Victoria, Australia and is 26 years old. He was unschooled with his 2 brothers in a beautiful little country town called Ruffy up high in the Murrindindi table-lands 2 hours out of Melbourne. Ruffy is a beautiful place, full of fields with huge boulders and lots of wild life. You will get to see more of Ruffy as our journey progresses. Tom and I met whilst working for a travelling festival tent in England and have been together for over 4 years.
So why would you want to make and build your own tiny house you may ask? Well, I can only speak for myself but for me personally there are SO many reasons that I get butterflies in my stomach every times I see a photo of a tiny house. Firstly I have always wanted to build my own house, growing up I avidly watched Grand Designs on the telly and particularly loved the cob houses or wooden houses made by their owner's hands. I have seen through others how peaceful and satisfying it can be living in a home that is build completely for your needs, this is not something that I have experienced in my 7 years of living in rental accommodation, i can assure you!
Another major reason is for financial independence, I am certainly not one of those people who love to work and get a real thrill out of working the 9-5. For me work has always been a bit of a drag and the less time spent earning my money, well, the better! Building a tiny house is an attainable way of building our own home, without having to have a mortgage or owning our own land. Both Tom and I do not have any savings and do not earn any where near enough to be considered for a mortgage even if we did want to tie ourselves down to that kind of a debt for the rest of our lives (we don't).
I will be documenting our journey to creating our tiny home via this platform, with the hope of connecting with other like minded tiny house dreamers and dwellers and to share any knowledge that we accumulate along the way. Tiny house building is certainly more common in the USA then it is here in Australia, so as we weave our way through this adventure we hope to support other Aussie folks to consider this way of life!
Until then,
Bex
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