{"id":324,"date":"2016-02-16T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/?p=324"},"modified":"2016-02-18T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T14:28:29","slug":"a-little-more-backpedaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/a-little-more-backpedaling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little More ‘Backpedaling’"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s more to update you on “out on the land,” but there were a few projects for the house and garage\/shop that were equally important to our living small.\u00a0 We made a few changes to the house itself.<\/p>\n

Our rough little farm house is just under 900 square feet, which is about 200 square feet more than I wanted.\u00a0 Our goal was to live small – literally – in 700 square feet or less and to use as little in the way of firewood, propane and electricity as possible.\u00a0 But even with almost 900 square feet the space is poorly laid out.\u00a0 I guess we need to remember that this house was built in 1939 and that families lived differently then.<\/p>\n

The living room is as large as most 1500 – 1800 square feet homes would have and, while that’s very open and comfy, it means that there’s only one closet in the entire house and the washer and dryer hookups were located in the already tiny kitchen.\u00a0 I knew that the washer and dryer needed a new home but I also needed to carve out a heated and well protected space to grow the organic microgreens that I sell at farmer’s markets.<\/p>\n

That meant that one of the largest (and most costly) projects had to be building in the sketchy open back porch.\u00a0 That was our first project for the house and here’s a few “progress report” photos (click on a photo for larger image).<\/p>\n