Our Journey to Tiny House Living
Follow @SeanBusby on Instagram to follow the live action of our life in a Tiny House. Oh, and you should know a few of the rad companies who helped to make this project a reality:
- Solar Power: Goal Zero
- Deck Furniture: POLYWOOD® — the raw materials from which are mostly derived from post-consumer bottle waste, such as milk and detergent bottles or other post-industrial material
- Greywater Disposal: Aqua2use greywater system via the Water Wise Group (stoked to water our berry bushes with shower water!)
- Mattress: Tuft & Needle (seriously — so comfy)
- Woodfired Hot Tub: Snorkel Hot Tubs (yep. for real. beyond excited)
- All sorts of reclaimed material: Waste Less Works (Missoula MT)
- Russ Hopkins of Container Collective Bikes
- Fellow off-gridder, Danny McIntosh
- Bob Donk, Joel Griffith and Andy Schepp
- Ted Krueger and J Designs
- Mr. Heater/Basecamp Outdoor Systems – little propane heaters for cold mornings, and our on-demand hot water heater for the shower
- Sunmar Composting Toilets – NSF approved toilet!
- Sundanzer DC Powered Refrigerators – same version we used in the yurt, except a little smaller. Super efficient to run on solar!
- Granberg International (Chainsaw Mills) – to make our stairs and shelves, among other projects on the house!
Tiny House Stories
The Busby Hive Off Grid Tiny House Tour
After everything we went through building a yurt — especially the discovery that it strengthened our marriage, I thought we would breeze through building a tiny house. The financial stars aligned, we were motivated to tackle the new project during our short summer, and our outlook was rosy. (As Sean will tell you, things through my eyes always seem to have a tint of sunshine and rainbows.) But along the way, the Tiny House project became more than a project… it morphed into an all-consuming force to be reckoned with, replete with deadlines, setbacks, and surprises. Like when our free ranging mountain chickens would swarm our snack table when we...
A Chick named Tiny. Starting a Microfarm with Strawbale Gardening. Building a Tiny Home. (Sensing a trend here?)
It all started: January 3rd — the day Sean broke his ankle. His family had just left town for the New Year holiday, and we headed out to ski/ride. One loud POP and a failed attempt at a hand plant, Sean landed himself in the Urgent Care. The first doc didn’t see anything problematic on the X-ray, and so Sean implemented a lot of rest and relaxation, thinking things would be fine. Long story short, Sean snowboarded on a broken ankle (even believing it was healing while in Iceland) until he went back into the doc and had it re-X-rayed, and...
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