In 2013, we retired and moved to a tiny house in the woods.
I had been downsizing and packing up the house for several years.
The process involved going through the house and packing up and releasing (giving away) whatever we were not using or no longer needed.
Six months later I did it again.
And another six months later, I repeated the process.
We ended up with several empty rooms in our 2800 square foot, four bedroom, two bath, two-car garage suburban house.
My husband measured the actual space we were living in at 650 square feet. This included a large kitchen and very large master bathroom.
Our tiny house is a 12 x 20 camping cabin, 240 square feet minus the sixteen square feet of porch and plus the sixty-four square feet of loft/studio.
Even with the downsizing, we moved enough stuff to fill three 10 x 25 warehouses.
Then we got it down to one warehouse.
Then we bought a studio/shop space to use the materials which we were still storing.
This is ideal for us until we can get solar and wind energy and drill a well and build a studio/shop in the woods.
The downsizing has been very freeing.
We no longer have anything we don’t want to work with, only what we truly love.
As creatives, that is pretty much all we care about doing.
No TV, some radio, definitely computer.
Everything else is hands-on creativity.
My husband is building a woodshop for himself.
I am installed with weaving, spinning, knitting, quilting, and music reading readiness production.
We live in the woods and go to work in town where there is electricity and water.
It is really close to our ideal life.
© 2016 Kathryn Hardage
www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com
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