Living Large In Our Little House

We finally found the floor plan for The Little House and have posted it here for those of you who wanted to review it. Just click on the plan and it should enlarge for you.

Here's my dis­claimer: These are not plans drawn up by a pro­fes­sional archi­tect. We did this at home using a com­puter pro­gram. My aunt had sub­stan­tial con­struc­tion expe­ri­ence and made them for us. If you use these plans, you do so at your own discretion.

There were issues try­ing to build a house from 300 miles away and it's been six years, but the only issues I recall regard­ing the specs for this plan was an issue with the cab­i­nets not fit­ting prop­erly. I was told this was due to the sheetrock subs, who did not screw, but glued the sheetrock. Gluing doesn't allow the sheetrock fit as tightly, caus­ing a slight vari­ance in the mea­sure­ments, and when build­ing a very small house, the tini­est of vari­ances can cause problems.

Please com­ment if you have any other ques­tions and I'll do my best to answer.

Thank you so much for read­ing and enter­ing the draw­ing for Jodi Helmer’s book, “The Green Year: 365 Small Things you can do to Make a Big Difference.” The win­ner of the ran­dom draw­ing is Becky! Congratulations, Becky! Please con­tact me via email at fivecoat@​ozarkmountains.​com with your address. I would also like to thank Jodi Helmer, who made this give­away pos­si­ble. I rec­om­mend you get the book (there’s great deals online today!) it is truly one of the best books out there.

This was so much fun, I’ll be doing give­aways through­out the hol­i­day sea­son, so make sure you check back regularly!

Now, for today’s post:

I didn’t spend Friday try­ing to grab the lat­est deals on more stuff, nor will I spend Cyber Monday try­ing to find the great­est deals online. We used to do the mad shop­ping dash, but do very lit­tle hol­i­day shop­ping now.

Still, this week­end was spent with some old tra­di­tions and with many new ones here at The Little House. When Dale and I had tons of fam­ily to spend to spend the hol­i­days with and we usu­ally had to eat more than one turkey din­ner to make every­one happy, we decided that when our fam­ily was gone we would eat tacos on Thanksgiving. Since his fam­ily remains in KC, we’ve been doing just that for the past three years here at The Little House.

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I hope all of my American read­ers didn’t eat too much yes­ter­day and that you had a very Happy Thanksgiving with your loved ones.

I promised a cool give­away this week and waited until Black Friday so you would be in the mood for a real bar­gain. For me, noth­ing would put me in a bet­ter mood than win­ning a new, signed copy of a book!

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Ok, so if Monday’s post left you with the impres­sion I’m the Queen of Green, I’m sorry for mis­lead­ing you.

It’s true, I was ahead of the curve on the cloth bag ini­tia­tive and that’s some­thing for which I’m proud. It was sim­ple, didn’t cost me any­thing but the ini­tial cost of the bags, and it did save me some nick­els on our gro­cery bills for the years we lived in KC, as stores there gave a nickel for every bag you used.

But we are far from being the Begley’s around here.

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