"Surely things haven't been easy right?" I get this question a lot and I haven't delayed this blog post intentionally but were officially almost two months into this adventure so it seems time to address how we are truly adjusting. I can recall like it was yesterday when we pulled How-E onto the land at eleven o'clock p.m. exhausted, relieved and yet still excited.
It's incredibly challenging identifying how we are doing as a whole with life outside of the city, off-grid on ten acres, combined with a living space just shy of three hundred square feet.
Has the excitement from Thanksgiving night continued?
In many ways it has; we are working diligently towards Plan C which is our future home. We had originally purchased building/floor plans for a barn house with exposed rafters, a lofted second story and rough timber throughout but recently due to budget and really assessing the fact that Casey and I...well mainly Casey would be building this home alone that we needed to either down size or look into some other alternatives.
Awhile back we had tossed around the idea of using shipping containers and we are back on that route. We have decided on a plan using two forty foot containers and a living space in between which will be used for our dining room, living room and fireplace (which will be our heat source).
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The first of the two containers will be used as the kitchen 8ftx30ft-/+ and the bathroom 8ftx10ft-/+. We plan to have a large cut out in the shipping container for the kitchen to create an open concept.
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| Example of open concept kitchen and love the barn style door to the left |
