ROOF TREES

I had an argument discussion with my Mother in a restaurant after my graduation last week (I’d had to give the Harry Potter robes and silly hat back so I felt disgruntled instead of swishy) about rural development. She challenged me to convince her that a few acres of new housing wouldn’t damage the visual, social and environmental qualities of the very rural area she lives in (so middle-of-nowhere, there’s cows on one side and horses on the other and it’s almost impossible to find the house at night in the deep, dark, absence of light pollution). Amongst my stream of sort-of-intelligent, impassioned defiance, was my point that small, single storey, low density housing with green roofs would still look like a field at first glance and an adorable hobbit community at second glance. Mother replied with an ‘agree to disagree’ expression, but I know she was secretly dreaming about a cabin with little trees on the roof and a vegetable patch and a pony and a pygmy goat herd…

- Originally posted to untroddenview.tumblr.com on 21/2/2013

Living in small spaces

Living in a tiny cabin is fantastic most of the time, but you have to be careful. You have to clean and tidy up and straighten out almost constantly or things can go from ok to “oh my god why do we live like this we are disgusting hoarders is that a flat cat?!! noooo!” very quickly.

..Full post by Pasture Rd

This sums up my fears about living in a tiny cabin; I really like ‘stuff’ and have to be in the right mood to tidy. Right now I’m sat on my bed with my laptop at the very edge of my desk because the rest of the desk has been covered in sweet wrappers, knitting, letters, stationary etc for 4 days and I’m too lazy to tidy it.

- Originally posted to untroddenview.tumblr.com on 29/12/2012 

Teeny tiny cabin

This waterfall makes me feel a bit light headed (from Stiknord)… I think I’d like to live in a tiny cabin at the top of it.

…a tiny cabin like this one! Cabin Porn is a wonderful place I go to clear my head and refill it with adorable minuscule dwellings.
I was going to muse on the psychological desire for a tiny house but Oliver Burkeman has already done it for The Guardian, and he’s an actual psychologist.

- Originally posted to untroddenview.tumblr.com on 29/11/2012