‘Youth has the future’. A (Dutch) saying I’ve heard all my life, but now I’m not so sure it’s true. Does our youth have a future left? And if so, what will it look like? We, the adults, are trying really hard to make that future less and less bright, with all our greed, with […]
Tiny House TEDx talk
Monday January 21st was the day, finally. After months of preparations, the very first TEDx event of Alkmaar took place in a sold-out Grote Sint-Laurenskerk. The crowd listened carefully to no less than 18 inspiring speakers, including yours truly, alternated with music and theater. It was an incredible day! The talks are now online on […]
Water, the big picture
Although we’ve barely had any winter so far, I’m already longing for spring. Even more so now that I’m lacking running water because my water pipe has been frozen solid for a week. Showering isn’t a big problem; I just take a shower at a friend’s every now and then. But having to use a […]
Tiny House 4 all: building together towards living independently
I already mentioned something earlier, but now I can finally reveal what I’ve been working on for the past few months: making a website for Tiny House 4 all! Today it was launched and I can finally tell you all about this organisation. Tiny Houses are being built in Nieuwegein, both for the residents and […]
Tiny House course meeting with Marie Kondo expert!
The online course ‘Your Tiny House – from dream to reality’ that I developed together with Monique van Orden is available since April this year. More than 70 students have started the course and the feedback is really positive. Besides the ten online classes, we organise a live course meeting four times a year, and […]
Off track
I’ve been feeling a little off track lately and I think I know how to get back on track. In order to do that I needed to make a difficult decision which I’ve been putting off. But of course putting it off won’t make anything better ; ) I’m not getting by as a freelancer […]
How much does a Tiny House cost?
On every open day I’ve had until now this question always comes up. ‘Looks great, a Tiny House, but what does it cost?’. That makes sense, of course, if you start thinking about a Tiny House for yourself or maybe for your children; the cost is an important part of the subject. Financing a Tiny […]
What’s going on with…
It’s been a while since I’ve written about life in my Tiny House, or what’s going on with my animals. At some point you’ve covered just about everything, life goes on and things become ‘normal’. For me, that is; for you it’s not and I tend to forget that. You might like to read about […]
Time to harvest
Yesterday was the last day of my vacation. I had planned two and a half weeks off for myself. And I’ve already learned a valuable lesson: when you’re self-employed it’s an illusion to think that you can have a vacation at home. Especially when your work is so closely connected to your home: there’s no […]
Tiny House project Leusden
On May 2nd I posted an article calling upon people interested in starting up a Tiny Housing project in Leusden, where the former military campsite Waterloo will be up for sale. After that the applications were massive, causing us to have the first information meeting in a gym. I still get an application every now […]