You made your floors out of WHAT??? Money Saving Ideas for your Tiny House/Cabin

"POOL LINER FLOORING FOR YOUR HOME, CABIN, or KIDS FORT!?"

Being installed: In this photo the flooring and baseboard trim (to hide and tack down the edges has yet to be installed). 

Here's an idea we toyed with at our last workshop in MA- and one I've never seen done before. My neighbor (fellow salvage enthusiast) thought of this- "What if we take my old metal above-ground pool walls, and use them as flooring?". Well, we did, and it works pretty darn well, its 100% recyclable, costs us NOTHING, and looks pretty wild! I do recommend putting down a layer of flooring padding (the thin foam rolls) before laying out these sheets- it'll minimize any noise.

SO, if you're into thinking outside the box/going the bizarre (and affordable) route with your home, here's something to consider, as above-ground pools are thrown out CONSTANTLY! 

This shot's from our not-yet-finished cabin "The Relaxshack", which also features a 100% free and salvaged back wall- what I've dubbed "The Wild Wall"…..

Here's a video showing and explaining this colorful, and cost-effective technique….

These are ideas, alongside 1045 more, that we'll be demonstrating, discussing, and IMPLEMENTING in a hands-on/get-dirty manner at our Memphis, TN Relaxshacks.com Workshop- April 11-13th
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-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

SIXTEEN tiny houses, A-frames, Huts, Art Studios….An eye candy photo gallery

Every once in awhile, I look through my photo archives and realize "Man, I have a lot of photos I've never used", so I then put together a fun, photo gallery, such as this one, where many of these shots I've taken of cabins, tiny houses, A-frames, and huts, get to see the light of day. So Enjoy, and may you get some inspiration, or a few ideas from these!
    Also, check out our fb page on Tiny Houses, and DIY projects- www.facebook.com/tinyhousehub
And details on our upcoming HANDS-ON building and design workshop in Memphis, TN- April 11-13th, 20141 I can't wait!!!

 A lil' A-frame Cottage-rental office I spotted near Acadia National Park in Maine….

 Doug Immel's Tumbleweed Fencl- which came out to our last Relaxshacks.com Building Workshop

 Joe Everson's Work- a 192 Square Foot Tiny Home in TN

 Above: My "Rock Shack" in my backyard, built and designed with recycled materials

 Another cabin on wheels called "The Cub" which I built and designed too- plans eventually coming!

 We built and designed this little getaway cabin in the woods for Vermont for only $300!

 Another reading/writer's retreat I designed in MA (not finished in this photo)

 An A-frame design of mine (it transforms!)- more details and photos coming soon!

 A tiny house in CT

 Another view of my Rock Shack (the one photo here I didn't take- its from Andrew Prince)

 Jim Matus' backwoods cabin in MA

 A micro modern cabin in MA that we recently toured!

My trash-built Gypsy Junker cabin that I built and designed (it sold last year)

A great A-frame I spotted on a road trip near VT

 Incomplete: A cabin I'm working on called "The Periscope"

I built and designed this tree house in late 2013 for a client near Boston, MA

A yurt, one you'll see, and possibly get to stay in, at our Memphis Hands-On Building and Design Workshop 2014

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

My Book….

Salvaged Window Greenhouses, Cabins, n' Micro Structures...

Check out some of these great looking, and inventive structures, all which have utilized many discarded (recycled) windows in one way or another. We'll actually be doing a demo on re-glazing windows at our North Carolina (Wilmington) Tiny House Workshops as well- April 26th-28th.

          Above: I just LOVE how the builder kept the original paint and stain color on each window......

From re-store.org

Photo from Houzz.com

wordever.com

A greenhouse cabin I built with recycled windows (and some homemade) for a MA-based horror author

 If you're looking to recycle free windows into a tiny house, cabin, or greenhouse, here's a video I did a little ways back on the subject- something we cover in the workshops for The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company too....

-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen

FIVE fab pallet sheds, huts, forts, studios n' follies....

 LOVE this one- a mix of recycled stock lumber and pallet wood, and the multi-pane door just makes it! From Greendiary.com

photo from OrangeFarmHouse.nl

      NOT a tiny house, well, I suppose it kinda is, but I've been on a pallet kick lately and also liked this photo...I do run another blog called www.fortaday.com afterall.....pallet reconstruction, or repurposing, is also something we'll mess around with a little at our Wilmington, NC Three Day Tiny House Building Workshop....April 26th-28th- can't wait!
       Anyway, this is a GREAT example where a little creativity, thrift, and elbow grease (and not even much of it!) will beat out most store bought clubhouses and forts every time. What's best about this is that its made from FREE, recycled materials that were bound for the dump otherwise! You could ALSO EASILY cover this in planks, tin, corrugated poly roofing, or plywood, and make it a neat little shed for your yard as well.

And here are a FEW MORE.....some great ideas, and greater execution!

www.readersheds.co.uk

The bold trim really makes this simple structure stand out- from cabbagedon.com

A lil' sloppy and lopsided....or "slopsided", but fun! From growsouth.wordpress.com

If you like recycled material projects and want to read on a few other concepts using pallets and other assorted free items to build micro structures, do check out my "Humble Homes, Simple Shacks" book....

                                                                    


-Derek "Deek" Diedricksen