Going Tiny – on Wheels!

When you move around enough that you never unpack your suitcase, you might begin to wonder why you even have a house! This past year has involved more travel – mostly close to home, but still enough to need to pack a suitcase. Hubby & I tested out living close to his job with an AirBnB for the hottest months of the summer so he could sleep in a bed and have AC. We kind of enjoyed not having the separation! Our two oldest kids are buying houses this year, so there’s been renovations and moving to help with. And of course, that new, adorable grand-baby called for extra visits too. Add in a couple visits to our parents in VA and IN, plus some vacation time and you get the picture of a busy year.

We’ve often talked about giving the mobile lifestyle a try once all the kids were grown. The older we get, the more we recognize that sometimes, the only way to make something happen is just to DO IT! So – we did! This fall will be our transition period for testing the RV, learning how it works, figuring out what we need and don’t need, etc. We’ll be downsizing from our current 1200 square foot house into this RV which is just under 200 square feet when the slides are open. We’ve been living in a fixer upper this past year while we renovated it into a rental house. So, we’ll rent it furnished to keep things simple when we go tiny – hopefully at the beginning of the year.

I love problem solving and organization, so this new, tiny space certainly has my wheels turning. The goal is to create an efficient, beautiful home that has everything we need and a creative corner for everything without overcrowding the space. I’ll share more about how I’m doing that in the next post. But for now, here’s our new home – (kitchen photo is a stock photo & and the wrong color cabinets) before we started moving in. The living room chairs slide out the side about 2.5 feet to create a larger living space and the bed slides out the back the same distance when we’re parked and stable. It’s amazing how those two small expansions really open the place up! Here’s to tiny living for two!