Tiny Home Living (small home living) - Part 2

In this post, I'll talk about the floor plan.

We bought a shell from Graceland. (See their website here: http://www.gracelandportablebuildings.com/)

We liked Graceland because of the quality of the traditional 2x4 construction. The shell we bought was already on their lot. It had been ordered and the purchaser's deal fell through. So, we got a good price. However, this meant we had to accept the external walls as is. That meant that I had to work with the position of the 3 front windows, the one on the end wall to the left of the front door and the front door itself. We added the window in the bedroom and the back door ourselves. The back window shown in the floor plan never materialized. That is our West wall and - in Texas - not a wall to be messed with.

The internal walls were our design (and our handiwork).

There are some furniture pieces missing from the drawing. My cute farm-style breakfast table is located just to the left of the front door. My adjustable stand-up computer desk is located straight back from the front door in the corner created by the bathroom wall. My granny's antique buffet is in the corner to the right of the back door (instead of the aforementioned window that never materialized). My mother's antique steamer trunk is beside the entertainment center in the living room. My husband's grandfather's cedar chest is behind the couch instead of the buffet (as shown).

The bathroom is spacious and one of the things I'd do differently is try to save space by making it smaller - somehow.

The vision for the bedroom is a bunch of built-ins and his-and-hers closets opposite one another as shown. To date, the cabinets and one closet (hers) are finished - with drawers and the second closet still to come. Currently, we just use the cabinets like shelves without drawers.

The kitchen isn't finished as shown. It is currently missing the cabinets on the interior wall. We also didn't do the corner on the interior wall. We simply stopped the counter at that wall. So, we have more of an L-shaped kitchen rather than a U-shape. But it is HUGE, so there is still plenty of room and time to add the cabinets to make it a U-shape.