Category: Structures

The other tiny houses of Caravan

We stayed in the Roly Poly at the Caravan Tiny House Hotel.  But here are the other houses you could visit.

This is the Caboose.  It is 134 square feet and has seating for 4-5 people as well as two bunk beds and a loft bed.

 

This is Rosebud, a 120 square feet traditional tiny house design.

 

This is the Tandem which is 160 square feet.  It has two queen beds.

 

This is Skyline, which is 160 square feet, but with a shed roof, so it seems larger. Of the tiny houses here, this is the one I would choose because I could put a desk upstairs where the second bed is and have my cozy “reverse loft” that I’ve become rather obsessed with.

 

This is the Kangablue, which is another 170 square foot traditional tiny house.

I’m hoping to book another stay one of these tiny houses in the future.  It’s fun for a night away.

City of Roses Motel: Metal and Wood. (Plus wall going up.)

Hey, it’s a picture in daylight!  You can see the bottom floor (I assume there will be additional stories) is almost totally framed up. (Is framed up a term?)

What interests me is that the second half of the lot is not being framed with wood, but instead these metal poles are appearing.  I think the wood-framed part will be two-story townhouses and the metal posts are the first part in a larger building, maybe four to six stories?  It’s kind of fun not having a picture of the completed project posted on the fencing. This way the construction is a guessing game for me.

And here is a wall going up!  After I took these pictures I turned to walk the rest of the way to the Max stop and found that a flagger was watching me with an amused expression on her face.

Gone from Burnside. Car lot.

When Matt lived in Southeast off of Sandy, and I lived downtown I used to walk to his house on a regular basis, mostly crossing the Burnside Bridge.  Today I had to run an errand after school and it was quicker to walk back.  So I noticed that the used car lot at the corner of Burnside and MLK has gone away.  I wonder when that happened?

Crazy Basketball Player and Crazy Statement

Ten years from now we will all be amused by this hair, (facial and otherwise).

This is from an article about Green Zebra Grocery Store. It’s a tiny grocery store that has the aesthetic of a natural foods store and the size of a convenience store. The owner is looking to expand to other neighborhoods and is drumming up investors.
Here she says, “The Kenton neighborhood is part of an urban renewal neighborhood, and they didn’t have a grocery store.”
But the paragraph above says, “When the store opened in Kenton, the nearest full-service grocery store was the Interstate Avenue Fred Meyer, about a mile away.” 
I live in the Kenton Neighborhood and I think Sedlar doesn’t have a good grip on the Kenton geography.  The Interstate Fred Meyer is four blocks away from me.  And about six blocks past that is a New Seasons.  I feel very well served by grocery stores.  Also, even if the Fred Meyer is a mile away from the furthest reaches of the Kenton neighborhood, that’s pretty darn close.  Walkable in 20 minutes.  I’m thinking of my friend who lives in Cully.  Now that’s an undeserved neighborhood for grocery stores.  
I’m all for putting fancy convenience stores in food deserts, but I think maybe the neighborhood should be a food desert.