While the rain doesn’t stop falling, we keep working on the inside of the Tiny House.
For now, and so much necessary, the curtain rails are being done.
The one for my side of the bedroom, another one to stop the lights at night and preventing Mateus of not having a good sleep, one for the main door, so the cold doesn’t come in and one for the bathroom area until we don’t have a door.
All the wood comes from the land and it’s chestnut.
We call this “esticador” in Portuguese.
Very simple and practical for small curtains.
We are going to use this in the storage loft and in the bedroom. In the bedroom we are going to have to sets of curtains: a thin white fabric that came from our wedding ceremony (a good memory from a beautiful day) and a thicker fabric with wood curtain rails.
Looking forward for these new curtains!
In our bedroom, the window frames are being finished.
David took them all out, sanded them and painted them with wood treatment varnish.
In the meantime, we took out all the cobwebs from this area (stagnant energy, old, in these corners is not good mojo) and soon we are going to have the curtain rails and the curtains.
So far, we have been living/sleeping with the bright full moon in our faces (specially on my side!) but that is about to change!
You know when you are in love with some details of some other houses?
Or a dream that you always has since you imagined owning a house?
Well, since always I wanted cups hanging from a shelf. Really! Simple but very much in tune with old traditional Portuguese kitchen cabinets. Since they would be to big to have them here in the Tiny House, we managed to make a dream coming true but slightly different!
I went to the local hardware shop Supermaco (contacts in the contact folder of this website) and bought the hooks (we call the, “camarões” in Portuguese. They only had silver. No problem! 0,10€ each. David painted the, with black spray paint and here they are:
After this, the simple and not so hard work of attaching them to the shelf and to the coffee box.
A small detail that makes such a difference!
This is a postcard from a painting done by Beth Richardson.
A tea moment in the kitchen, in blue, like the kitchen.
Love it!
Looking at our tiny house with so much gratitude.
Every little thing is precious.
It may look untidy (because it is!), but it’s worth every single day to just look and appreciate this house of ours.
We started the work of preparation for a worming compost toilet for the bathroom in the tiny house!
So happy about this!
With the help of Shiv, we could transport the big tank into place, make a base and cover it properly.
First steps done! The rest will follow!
Looks like a new sink but it was just painted!
It’s amazing how just a few hours dedication on recycling old things can make such a difference!
And, new pots were added to the outside wall: my Portuguese cross were old as well, so here they are!
Right where we have the sink, just above it, in the gas house, a new garden was born!
Now seriously, being Portuguese I like to take advantage of anything that can hold a plant in. You can see all kind of different plant pots around here. These crocks are made in Portugal 🇵🇹 - that’s good! - but they got to the end of their time. Big feet, as they were David’s, and mine are going to join these soon. They are good quality, but we just wear a lot our clothes and shoes living in the mountain. It’s quite surreal how this kind of soil and work just wears out the materials so fast compared to living in a flat non country side!
But, coming back to gardening and beautifying the outside of the Tiny House, here we have the new pots with incense plant!
It looks gorgeous and it is a beautiful way to reuse the plastic shoes!
This window vision started so long ago that we don’t recall all the details, but from what we remember, David asked Sara (a very good friend of ours and a very talented artist) to turn a small window into something beautiful that could look like a stain glass. David imagined something like a mandala and I thought at the time of a rose or something related to that.
At the end, we just said to Sara that we trusted her and that she could create something that she felt it would be the right thing for the Tiny House.
She called it “Afecto” - affection in Portuguese.
How beautiful is it?
One of the windows that I love the most here has been transformed into something even more alive and it is going to give so much to this beautiful, warm and homey place.
