House design evolution

It's a lovely thing to be able to build whatever you want.  It's also so full of possibilities that it's hard to decide anything at all.

We started off thinking that we'd build something tiny to live in, then build something bigger when we had the money and desire to have something more substantial.  Then the tiny house would become a guest house or studio.

Then we found that all of our house designs were morphing into the big house, not a tiny house.  So we went with it.  Jason spent a good part of our July sailing trip messing around on SketchUp (our absolute new favorite tool - also? FREE).   He came up with a kick ass design that we both loved.

We even loved it for 3 months (which is impressive considering we generally change our minds about every 1.5 hours).  Then we started questioning ourselves.  We have lived on the boat for more than six years, so do we really know what we want?  And if we build this ourselves, it's got to be more simple.  And, oh by the way, we both teach this thing called Agile which is all about doing something small, proving that it works and then adding on.  Maybe we should put our money where our mouths are.

So we started coming up with small house designs.  This is the latest (and just a rough-out).  We'll of course have to sit on this for a while and make sure it's what we really want, but so far, we're both crazy about it.