The Loopholer grows a bedroom window, for air flow, & rising-sun view. June/July Super Sale 4 YOU!

This is a house for tiny people young & old. It is a home much different than the sort defined as trailers. Its a portable building w/o wheels attached: It uses tax Loopholes to roll.

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I know that when I start a house, it will look like trash to some who see it fitting together organically. I wander through the warehouses, listening for the calls of the wood and trim to go around the windows and doors. In this case, the Bear and Claw trim will surround the house, just enough, I think, to have it look fantastic when repainted, a big job.

I realize, as I compose with dirty, dusty parts that cleaning will expose, that they have great character and grain that few will see as I screw and nail. Later, when it gets washed and oiled, some of it painted, all of it just toil, human energy working to compose from the parts a house one could live in that might win some hearts. What I see in my head as I screw each board and beam is likely not the same as what the other people see. I find myself composing with parts I run across as I wander through the warehouse, as I would with customers.

Show me what you like and how you envision growing a house, and I can help you find the parts and design the home to get started. Then you can see workers locally who will be able to handle the assembly. It will be cheaper to use those who live near you to employ than to ship it across the country, with high costs and no joy. From any distance, it’s as if by magic, we can work together using phones, videos, and pictures, and with pleasure, see your house materialize on your land to be your pride and joy.

So, imagine what you might like in a tiny getaway. Come and search for parts you like to tell your own story. I can help by sketching parts and creating plans for those who love House Art and want to give their best to build a healthy house again, just as we used to do. I remember taking down so many homes that were shipped around by Sears and Montgomery Ward to be built in small towns across the land. I have the parts and pieces to build houses once again so that you can do all the things you see on the land that you live on.

Join me in the escapades of creating homes and communities. Don’t think that only tiny homes can grow from salvage, for I have shown that big houses can be built from salvage, too. How about checking out the dreams you have for homes and creating them with healthy materials, free from imports and toxic parts that outgas and cause significant harm, yet are still used every day? I do not wonder, nor should you fear, that anyone can go wrong when you use the best of the past to build a future you can live in with pride. May you have the chance to create the vision or the dream you will. Thank you for following and watching. You can then bring others to buy, and you’ll win the parts you need to help bring your dream to life. Yes, you can earn commissions by selling what some people need in the town where you live if you tell them, perhaps bring, your friends and relatives who may be considering building a home or have a barn they want to modify to create a condo hidden inside. Please let us know so that you can see the many deals I will offer, in addition to what will be free to the people who come to help move things and load up the windows, doors, and other items.

Join us on weekends, as I will be taking appointments into June to work with as many people as possible and help them along. Do you want to get the parts? The doors, windows, and trim that we need to start designing to create a plan for wood throughout the house.

We can offer it at a lower price than Sheetrock if you visit our June and July Super Sale to clear warehouses that have been sitting idle for a long time. Come for a chance to build with the wood on ceilings and the walls, the floors, and in the loft, we can create houses that no one will ever know was made from trash… or salvage, as some know, certainly not worthless if you use it to build a home. I have proven that this can be done, not just well, but while having fun. Create without perfection for perfunction is all we need to have a home that will last for a lifetime, and still be able to roam.

Want more information? Make comments, share, and visit the websites where the articles will guide you on how to build them correctly. TinyTexasHouses.substack.com or TinyTexasHouses.com for more information, or to answer questions you may have. Become a paid subscriber and get discounts and much more, including the chance to make a good living selling parts for other homes. If you sell Cobalt Roofing tile for a home or two, you might earn enough commission to cover all the parts you need to build your own.

Why not open up your mind to making money with your time by sharing your knowledge with others? Then, tell me what they are searching for, come with them if you can, and explore the possibilities in their collections. This could become your side gig for earning an income by providing services such as locating, helping pick out, shipping, and more for all of the windows, doors, floors, trim, siding, ceilings, lofts, beams, hardware, and other items. Yes, you could barter your time and services for salvaged materials to legally avoid being taxed on your income. The IRS cannot value salvage, effectively treating it as trash for tax purposes, until cash exchanges hands. Time is Free. I’d rather barter and trade than pay taxes, if I can do it legally. See the logic and the law: Rather than paying taxes on wages earned from working full-time. This is a way to fill in your weekends and make more profit than during the weekdays. Ready to step up to being a salesperson for salvage miners, builders, and more? Why not?

You might see a commission full of all the parts that you may ever need.

How easy can it get? Or, better yet, if harder, how fast can you reach your goals, find success, and make a lot of money if that is what you want to get when you are done helping us empty a significant portion of our warehouse nests?

We have enough beams, flooring, trim, siding, windows, doors, and much more than most would need to build a few hundred small houses, a few large ones, or hundreds of tiny houses spread across the land.
What do you see in your future that we can help meet the demands that it takes to build with quality and an ethos worth preserving?
Quality in building houses that last a lifetime or two. Such is the story of the wood I use, which still has hundreds of years of life, like the windows and doors, without trees being cut, without any more energy wasted, either human or electric.

If you come and spend an evening after working hours to see the warehouses and choose to stay overnight in a B&B, then you can also go swimming if you wish. Kayaking, or even hiking in the woods, will certainly ground you and help you focus on manifesting your dreams, so that they live on long after us. This is Dragon’s Lair, over 20 feet deep right now, and was a dream I fulfilled when I was 66 years old. Never stop dreaming, creating, and believing in the miracles of a wonderful God. Exemplify what is possible and grow solutions with your life energy daily. Blessings to your dreams coming true if you are willing to work for them and believe, then do what you must do to make them happen for you.

#Youthing through grounding, creating, and having faith that I am on a mission worth living my best for and lasting as long as possible. This is a matter of breathing right, moving well, staying limber, and eating well. Honor thy vessel, the most essential home for your Spirit to reside in, and then create the houses that will protect your boat and your family, your community, no matter where you roam, with salvage.

This is the best approach I know and have tested to demonstrate that the Proof of Concept is ready to proceed. Now, how do I let others grow this business ever on, for I can’t wait forever before I am gone?

Why have the greatest creations from salvage been ignored by the conventional world of designers?

A many spindled story up to the heights of imagination, even for Escher, there are some things that can be built that defy what most architects and designers are taught in school. So they don’t.

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TINY TEXAS HOUSES NEWSLETTER

JUN 02, 2025

Why not be creative and use the best of the past to form a future less expensive than the ones that governments impose upon the public? What is wrong with being different? Suppose you’re short and don’t need to waste the height for a ceiling that will never see a 6‘8” tall person come to visit. I prefer to create with the things that cost less and celebrate the times when people had the freedom to choose and the dang inspectors did not have a job to lose. No government to tax men on the home that they could build somehow led to taxing that can take you home at will. What has happened to our way of incentivizing growth for the common man who had a plan that might be great once it was built? Baker’s Dozen Sale (buy 12, get 13th for free) on spindles, windows, doors, and more.

What happened to ingenuity when corporations became the persona that can influence votes, and thus control the world? How do Wii fight back? Wii, who see that there is another way to be the best at building, as you can see, without doing so much work to slow down my productivity. Wii demonstrate what is possible and hope others will see so that they can build more of such once they follow Mii. Lots of articles and examples, videos, and more to show you how to do it, and it’s all for free. Learn and build, teach if you are skilled, and create the Co-ops now so that the locals can carry on where I am leaving off.

Get the sources almost for free. By using railing, posts, and stairs, I save the most. When I’m done in a day, others would have taken a week to do it that well, if they could do it at all. Most carpenters can not build like this anymore. No one can cut down the trees and make these things with such ease unless they use salvaged parts and craft them much quicker, designed thus from the start with parts we have. Why create more when you can use less and keep the work your own, and the mess? Why build new things when the old ones work great, unless the codes say you can’t? And then the government takes taxes for the monstrosity that builders, by code, are allowed to create trash housing designed to break down?

Some windows are just waiting to be combined to create a house I have had in mind.

Yes, that is a fantastic tree that I once bartered for what the man needed to build a house, just the windows and doors. He asked me if I wanted more. I said ‘heck yes,’ but never saw him again. Behind it is a 2×6, all tongue and grooved, so that it would fit well for a loft.
These panels formed the top of walls between the workspace and office stalls in the very early 1900s, in Buffalo, NY, as I recall. Two have glass and two could use beaded both sides of wood to make them the opaque panels between rooms instead of wasting space with studs and shitrock nailed on.
Virgin Plinth Blocks by the baker’s dozen. Created in 1900, New Old Stock. Some special burled pine costs a bit more.
1911 circa hard baked tile that will resist fire and hail. 700-800 sf in stock.
Bulletproof shutters with a special view to shoot from. 1890s circa with hardware. 2 sets.
For messages or offerings on the backs of church pews. You can use them for a door, messages, with a pencil slot, no less.

So much to pick from as the sale begins, buy by the dozens, get more, and you win. How much barnwood, how much trim? How many windows to make it all fit? Big or small, stained glass or textures, what will your windows look like instead of vinyl or aluminum? Great, I am sure if you will endure a bit of inconvenience, a bit more of the prep, but you’ll save so much money that it’ll be worth many trips. Better still, if looks could thrill, then you will see it in the eyes of the guests who come to see your house and are truly surprised. Be the odd one on the street with lots of wood to keep you healthy in your home.

Stop the madness of still buying crap to build a home while the sale is on. You can purchase wood for the cost of Shitrock by the time you put it up. Not to mention the incredible tension that comes with getting sick when using new materials that all emit outgassing.

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Are you living freely when you are looking to be the best that you can one day become instead of going downhill from where you are, even if you are a teen.

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MAY 31, 2025

What do you see that could be considered trash, thrown in a landfill instead of being turned into a house? By many people’s standards, this house is junk… just trashy from the start. What will it look like when it is rebuilt? Watch and see, as well as join Mii for sales of parts and pieces, designs to help you build, and consulting from a distance, so that you will succeed if you have the will. Join Mii through subscriptions and stay up-to-date with all the information you need, as well as have the opportunity to ask questions if you have a project to complete.

Trim from the 1930s and siding from the early 1900s. All the pieces are from many decades past, so that no new trees get cut to create this tiny house. All the glass was made a century ago, as well as the hardware that will go on the doors and windows. Sustainable in ways that no new material can be, based on the resources or the human energy, salvage is the best way to save on time, materials, and is free.

I bought this railing for a job in Round Top in 2010. I have wanted to put them in a house for 15 years. The time has come. Like it? Cypress railing from the 1890s.

There will be a deck below as well as a pole to tie into the one above. Imagine a deck extending above and across the front to the other side, with an additional upper deck to connect and complete the wrap-around. How does that sound? Herbs and veggies growing on your balconies.

There’s a lot of scraping to do before painting, but the color selection will lead to an incredible house. There are many details to attend to, but when completed, it will look like a lot of fun instead of work. With a passion and inspiration, it’s not work, just life hours spent creating a gratifying thing called a home. Pour your heart into our home, and you will find why Home is where the Heart is when you’re done. Blood, Sweat, and Tears go into building our own homes with our hands, feet, and minds involved.

This house is called the “Loopholer” because it was designed to circumvent the Neighborhood regulations that prevent one from placing a tiny house in a station near their home. Neighborhoods that do not want to see you have a place to go besides the house that Wii all know is not the same as a studio. Meditation or creation, whether as an artist or for personal health, the extra space is valuable. Yet, you must use stealth to enter many yards where the Neighborhood Association acts as if it were a Czar and has the right to tell you nearly anything it wants about how you live and what you build on your lot. It’s under 140 square feet and does not have a bathroom, a kitchen, or a way to prevent it from being placed in your backyard in many of the places where they have stopped so far.

June Sale starts in just a few days, so please plan, watch, get your goals list together, and think about what you might need to get started in June and July of 2025 to make your dreams for a tiny getaway house come true—Brad@TinyTexasHouses.com for more information.

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