Roughing Out a Plan
Where to Rest Your Head: Loft Sleeping
The Great Outdoors: Extending Your Space
How Will You Pay for It? Financing
Can (and Should) You Construct Your House Yourself?
Bare Hands Aren’t Enough: Tools
Staying Warm and Cool: Insulation
Beautiful Inside and Out: Finishing Touches
Chapter 4 Other Considerations
Not Your Normal Kitchen: Cooking
Venting Small Spaces: Humidity
Heating and Air Conditioning Solutions: Mini-Splits
What Everyone Is Curious About: Toilets
Inviting Folks Over: Entertaining
Interview: The Tiny Traveling Theatre
Every House Needs a Home: Where to Park
Foreword
DEREK “DEEK” DIEDRICKSEN
This was the first time we met in person. We needed to get a selfie.
Chris Schapdick is a pretty curious fellow. To be frank, he has just a little bit of that mad scientist look about him, a zany “Gene Wilder as Frankenstein” vibe. I intend that comment to be a compliment, though.
Chris has a gleam about him of an individual who is very bright and who has many onion-like layers. Chris, like myself, was probably a total nerd in high school, but it’s those people that you want to align yourself with. The dorks of yesterday are the innovators, pioneers, and often the bosses (perhaps yours) of today. They are the ones who were
