In this video Brad Kittel, owner of Tiny Texas Houses, shares how he started his company and how, you too, could do the same! Comment and share, we love feedback!
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Nada
Awesome!
When I was a kid, 8 yrs old, my family moved into a rural area where my father was building our ‘new’ house. This ‘new’ house was comprised of all the materials he salvaged from an old convalescent home that was scheduled for demo. He salvaged the bricks (I remember how he eventually chopped away all the old mortar so they could be reused for our house), the slate, hardwood flooring that was installed as our ‘new’ floors in the entire house (I remember sitting at 8 and 9 years of age with a bucket or water and a wire brush that I used for scrubbing and scrapping away the decades of dirt that was lodged in the tongue and groove), old windows, nails (these were straightened again by using a brick for support and a hammer to pound them straight), old sheet rock, pipes, lath stripping, timbers for framing, planks for the subfloor….it all went into our ‘new’ 3 bedroom house. This house was framed and roofed and we moved in; all of us sleeping in the living room on the subfloor during the first few months. There were exposed 2 x 4 struts, no heat or hot water (it was summer…) and spiders in the bed when I woke up in the morning…mostly crushed by rolling over on them during the night. Eventually, the insulation went in, the sheet rock went up, the taping and painting gradually completed, the electrical finished before that, the exterior bricks laid, the walls painted, the floors sanded and refinished, the ‘old’ reclaimed wood furnace se tup again. I remember participating in many of the building and finishing steps, helping as much as a youngster could without complaining too much (ha!), watching as my family home manifested. It was the only way we could afford to have a ‘new’ home and its progress is a memory I have that fills me with awe now.
So I really appreciate your mission. I love the homes. I want one! And will find some way to make this happen in Canada. Warmest wishes and continued good fortune to you!
J. sullivan
Keep it up & keep me posted as to what you are doing….J. Sullivan
LC
love these concepts … love what you are doing with the opportunities you have! Great ideas : )
patricia lyon
I am so in love with Brad Kittel that I could puke. Don’t call the cops I’m harmless. My story is that I’m Leo Lyon’s exwife, Leo had a business for years in Luling, maybe you knew him. If you did then you know why I’m a brick shy of a full load. I digress, I’m also the neice of a pretty well known Texas architect A. Carrol Brodnax who died many years ago or rather his wife killed him for his money. He designed and built most of the mid century homes in Memorial outside Houston, I grew up reading house plans, playing among builders at construction sites,
but what I want to tell you is that
A.Carrol “Curly” would have thought you the best thing since antibiotics. I love your dedication to smallness, earth friendliness, I live in a small home that will be 100 in 2016. I renovated it after moving it onto my lot from Sanra fe Tx in 1999. It is 1000 sf. ft. and wonderful.
Patsy lyon
Steve Berggren
have a 100 demoed houses stacked up. Waco area. 254.715.0008