Last Tuesday I went on a little road trip to collect information for the design of my future garden. I visited Esther and Arjan from Eetbaargoed.nl, went to look in the showroom at Tuinkassenwinkel.nl and made a stop by my future neighborhood, as I was in the area anyway. Making plans for the future is […]
Chin up and shoulders straight
Hello dear readers. It has been a while since I have shared a lot with you. December was a bit of a gloomy period for me. Of course, it is also the darkest month of the year, so that fits nicely. And 2020 was not an easy year for anyone. Not even for me. But […]
The old and the new(s)
Dear Readers. This week I reached a huge milestone: I paid off the loan for my Tiny House! My house is now completely, 100% mine!! Six months earlier than expected too, which is great. That is a piece of the old that is completed. On to the new! The design for my future garden is […]
Let’s start at the beginning again
The time has finally come to continue my adventure. Onwards to my own lot in Olstergaard! The project manager in me wakes up, rubs her hands and takes a seat. What do I need? Five years ago, when I started planning the build of my Tiny House, I needed three things basically: a bag of […]
Housing, nature and food production in balance
Yesterday I shared a message from the newspaper AD about the new political program of the PvdD (Party for the animals) on LinkedIn, stating that they want to reduce livestock in the Netherlands by 75% and use that space for housing. There was some criticism about that. I have often noticed that there is a lot […]
Green up your Tiny House
Tiny House enthusiasts are often green people who love nature and enjoy a view of greenery around them. In addition to trees, shrubs and plants around the outside of your house, plants inside your Tiny House are also very valuable. They create a good atmosphere, purify the air, positively influence your mood. They are beautiful […]
Are you living in a Tiny House yet?
In November 2016, Monique van Orden and I gave our very first workshop “Realize your own Tiny House”. We had rented a room in Utrecht in which we worked with twenty students for a day. After having given fifteen workshops across the country to about 300 students, we decided to turn it into an online […]
Tiny House offers a view of nature
One of the things that makes living in my Tiny House so pleasant is that I have many windows in it that allow me to look at the surrounding greenery. That makes it no problem at all to live small; many windows gives a spacious feeling to the house. You bring the outside inside to […]
Call: more room for citizen initiatives in the housing market
I publish this message on behalf of the Tiny House Netherlands foundation. Over the past few days, we have formulated a letter to the House of Representatives of the States General with a group of leaders of civil society initiatives on the housing market. Below, you can read the message about this letter, which can […]
What would I have done differently?
I think it is the most frequently asked question when people visit my Tiny House or come to one of my lectures: “what would you do differently if you had to do it all over again, if you would design and build your house anew?” In short: very little :) But I will explain that. […]