What Does Comfort Mean?

We’ve been spending a week in a house, a real house, with a life-size kitchen and hot running water and actual bedrooms with doors that close and a hair dryer in the bathroom. A hair dryer! In other words: comfort.  Yes, I’ve really enjoyed this house. The soft sofa, especially welcome the day after we both got […]

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Stories in Books Tiny House

That’s the name of this kit—Stories in Books—and it’s designed to look like a hardback book, with a tiny scene inside instead of pages.  It’s a lovely idea: a story in a book, told with a scene instead of words.  The Story Imagine that a small mountain village has grown up on both sides of a […]

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Tiny Prairie House

It’s been quite a while since I finished a Tiny House, and this one was a doozie to get back in the game with, let me tell ya. For one thing, I’ve wanted to buy this kit for years—especially when my Wisconsin friend Doug picked it out when I asked if I could make him […]

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Tiny Fruit Stand

I hate to bring up a failed Tiny House (especially in the wake of the successful and popular Sectional Sofa Tiny House), but damned if this kit isn’t made by the same manufacturer as that weird Light Music Bar Tiny House I made last. I bought both kits at the same time, not knowing that […]

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Tiny Sushi Restaurant

I was especially looking forward to making this Tiny House, but, like several recently, it disappointed me through the process. Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s lovely! But, I was savoring the idea of making each piece of sushi for each little plate, and it turned out that the directions were very hard to […]

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