Settling In To The Modern Prefab House - Tiny Little Lab

Tiny Little Lab, the guest unit of the prefab modern house from Green Modern Kits, is currently being used as a weekend retreat for the client until the sale of her home, at which point she will move to this beautiful area permanently and then build the main unit of the modern prefab cabin.

So even though the prefab house project is unfinished, the client is happily settling in, already making it home, and kindly sent in pictures and stories I thought I would share, as those of us passionate about prefab houses and modern design usually love to see the colorful finds of others, love to share the stories and memories! 

I am so grateful our clients are sharing their adventures and delights with the rest of us.
Here are her words:

"Two photos of the driveway through the field of perennial grasses to the Little Lab, on August 1, 2014, about 2 p.m., on an overcast day, but with strong UV. The tallest grasses are Big Bluestem, and goldenrod is abundant.

View from the porch South, 8/1/14. The 275 yr old oak tree is in the middle, with a rounded shape that extends quite far to the right. Still healthy and producing acorns!

My lizard buddy’s name is Eric, for Eric Dahlen, his maker, who clearly went to UC Davis.

Purchased in San Francisco in the 70s, Eric’s head separated during a minor earthquake, but he went back together surprisingly well, with only that one patch of unglazed clay under his chin. Hopefully the noose is temporary, but given this history, I am leery of removing it, and it is a sad fact of life that you get used to such things. Eric is so morose - he makes me smile with my heart.

I’ll ask my contractor, Jere, to take pictures of the porch with stacks of wood on it; otherwise, it’s still a muddy mess outside, but the perennial grasses and goldenrod are growing back and covering lots of bare ground. He’s coming today to fix a leaky shower problem.

The main unit: sorry if I gave the impression the main unit would be built later this year. It will not be built until the old house I live in sells, and the old house is now ready to put on the market, probably in September. It may take 3 years to sell, which is why I decided to build the guest unit first, so there would be healthy place to sleep with healthy air to breathe, instead of waiting 3 more years. Jere told me I look better, meaning eyes not so swollen and puffy and so forth.

Wood delivered yesterday from a local sawmill. A mixture of locust, cherry, hackberry, and walnut. I don’t remember taking walnut to the mill, but here it is! All of this wood was lying on the ground, leftover from a poor lumbering operation, except for a few skinny hackberries that were rubbing branches of the oak tree and a fairly big locust that was leaning over an old stone fireplace, taken down before it fell on the fireplace.

The wood will be used in the main unit for bookshelves, closets and closet shelves, and surely there’s enough for flooring here and there."

...and there you have it, the latest update from a GENEROUS client sharing her life with us all.
(THANK YOU!!!!)