The long awaited basement walls are being installed. Not being able to dig down for the basement, we built the basement above current ground with the plan to back-fill the land around the house. The property is in a bit of a low area, a few feet lower than the road, so back-filling the land…
Category: Homestead
Posts about the building of our homestead.
Tiny Homestead – Part Three, Foundation Footers.
This is point where things got complicated. Here in Northern Ohio we have had one of the wettest spring / summers in a very long time. This is a good thing, turns out. The wet weather informed every decision we made from this point on. Our land is on a ridge, which is to say…
Tiny Homestead – Part Two, Excavating the homesite.
After the home-site was cleared, an excavation company was hired to put in a temporary driveway so the construction crews could come in and lay the foundation. This video chronicles the clearing of the driveway area, laying down a stone base to drive on, and clearing and leveling the area that the home will be…
Tiny Homestead – Part One, The Land.
Early last year Lady Lightman and myself purchased a wooded lot in the town we currently reside. The original plan was to simply cut in a small driveway, parking area, a few paths through the woods and set up a picnic area. Once we started this project, we realized that we enjoyed just being on…