6/15/2023 0 Comments Woman off grid living![]() More Like This: Tiny Houses | Cargo Trailers | Micro | THOW | Travel Trailers | RV Living You can also join our Small House Newsletter!Īlso, try our Tiny Houses For Sale Newsletter! Thank you! If you enjoyed this DIY cargo trailer tiny house you’ll LOVE our Free Daily Tiny House Newsletter with even more! You can share this using the e-mail and social media re-share buttons below. I have lots of big plans, like the water catchment system I mentioned above, in my head for continued improvements and look forward to the journey.Įlizabeth, thank you so much for sharing your story with us! If you have your own story to share submit it here. I continue to have ideas and read articles about ideas for improvements. ![]() This RV and the journey that it is are new to me. There’s a whole community of people who could be served by off-grid living. I even like to think about how this might be useful for people with unstable housing situations. The saying, “life is a journey not a destination,” certainly applies to this adventure for me. This will be great in a warm rural environment but I happen to be retired military and will want to use the gym anyway so I’ll shower at the nearest military base. Or I may just use a commercially available shower tent. Shower – Yet to be added, I’ll have a solar shower bag hanging outside with brackets for a privacy curtain mounted on the outside of the trailer.Soon I’ll have a composting toilet with a sawdust bucket under a wooden box disguised as a seat. Toilet – For now I have a chemical port-a-potty.Electricity – I have Goal Zero’s Yeti 1250 Kit with panels mounted on the roof.Cooking – I have a solar oven and propane stove.At the moment I have to obviously fill my 5 gallon supply bucket by hand but an addition I’d like for the future is a rainwater catchment system and a Berkey Gravity Water Filter. Plumbing – I have a 5-gallon tank/bucket and a 5-gallon gray water tank/bucket under my sink (you can see it above).The Micro Kitchen Simple Gravity Plumbing and Water Storage w/ Hand Pump How some of my other daily living needs are met: This system offers tons of storage space. The bed is a mattress on plywood with storage in milk crates underneath. And I use an RV pump handle faucet to maintain mindfulness of my water usage. It’s a used countertop and sink on two stock cabinets. We kept it very simple starting with painting the plywood walls and insulating the underside. I parked my trailer in the driveway and- with the help of my very supportive fella- worked on it out of the garage. The process took $7,000 and about a month of time. ![]() The ‘After’ Shot of my Cargo Trailer After Converting it to Home I open my ramp door and prop the end on my jacks so that it becomes level and I enjoy the slightly elevated patio. What I like about my cargo trailer is that it has a large ramp door on the back which, in this case, becomes opening a wall of your home and invites the outdoors in. ![]() One of my problems with traditional RVs is the dark, closed in space. If I’m respectful and polite and don’t infringe on the rights of those around me, why can’t I live wherever and however I want? My 7’x12′ Insulated Cargo Trailer ‘Before’ Shot As time went on I wondered why I had to pay for a campground. I wanted plenty of outdoor living and the convenience of an RV to be able to head out on the spur of the moment.īack then my idea was a campground and lots of outdoor living but now I want to travel to urban and rural environments. My dream started years ago when my kids were little and I wanted to take them traveling. I encourage you to read the rest of my story (including how much this cost me) and tour the rest of my DIY cargo trailer micro camper below:
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