Hello, Autumn

I promised a photo tour once we were settled, and this week, I finally got around to taking more pictures.

Our house is cute, but it doesn’t photograph as well as I expected — it’s a challenge to get the right angles in such a tiny space, and capturing the interior in the best natural light is tricky. Anyone with a fancy camera and much better photography skills interested in photographing our house?

We’re more comfortable now, but still looking for a few key pieces of furniture: a table for two and (possibly) another chair for sitting and working. We have two Varier sit-stand stools and our beloved red triumph chair from CB2 inside, but the entire setup doesn’t quite work. You’d think dealing with furniture would be easier in a tiny space — since there’s less square footage to fill and figure out — but it’s even more challenging.

So, I expect the main room to evolve over time.

Welcome to our home.

The front porch.

A wide shot of the house and the land we’re parked on, through a fisheye lens.

The back of the house, showing the rear loft window (top) and the bathroom window (bottom). The utility box houses the hot water heater and some pipes.

Another exterior view. The thin cable along the wall is a Cat6 outdoor waterproof ethernet cable, which is partially buried underground and goes a few hundred feet to the main house. Super-fast internet: hooray!

A side view of the porch, with a hanging plant and pumpkin on the ledge.

Comfy Adirondack chairs (less than $20/each at Friedman’s Home Improvement), overlooking the view.

Porch essentials: doormat, Magic Mesh door screen, and gourds from Hale’s Apple Farm on Highway 116.

Please, come in.

The main area, looking toward the sitting lounge.

The lounge nook underneath our bookshelves, which is my favorite spot in the house. I picked up these Yoshitomo Nara postcards on a trip to Japan.

Dickinson Marine heater (fueled by propane).

Our main closet (for clothes and shoes) on the left. Unicorn ampersand print by Marc Johns.

Princess three-burner gas cooktop and white faux-brick backsplash.

A view of our kitchen counter, sink with coil-spring faucet, and various essentials, from magnetic knife strip to French press. I still really wish we had a farmhouse sink — this small two-bin sink is a bit awkward.

Handy wall hooks mainly for bags, hoodies, and baseball caps.

Our bathroom: small pedestal sink, bucket toilet, and more white faux-brick. The small galvanized pail is for cocoa shell mulch, which we use as cover material. (It works well!)

30×30 shower stall with 1.25 gpm Bricor showerhead. Super low-flow but powerful — it’s great.

A close-up of the faux-brick shower wall in black.

Our sleeping loft with two twin XL mattresses, side by side. Pretty spacious. These gooseneck lamps aren’t my favorite (I didn’t choose them), but they’ll do for now.

View of the main room from above, at the foot of the bed. I love our tiny ceiling fan (24 inches).

The storage loft, above the front door, with a few boxes, crates, luggage bags, and our laundry bin.

An opposite view of the main room, from the lounge. Currently missing: a table for two.

Looking down on the kitchen from above, in the loft.

We like visitors.

My cousin Terrence, posing on the porch.

Rumi on the porch.

The property cat, Rumi, is a frequent visitor.

A Saturday afternoon with the Vaughns (my cousin Jennifer, her husband Patrick, and their son Ronin).

My cousin Terrence in the lounge.

An August visit from friends. The most people we’ve had in the house at once.