I have 2 personal projects of mine that I would love to do at some point. One of them is to build a tiny house with environmentally friendly materials (not sure where) and or renovate a cottage in Ireland (where I’m born) and turn it into a part-time Airbnb or some sort of vacation home.
They are relatively similar projects so maybe I’ll talk about both of them. For the tiny house project, I actually made a plan from A to Z pretty much in my sophomore year of high school. working on either of these personal projects would allow me to gain so much knowledge on a variety of things. Examples would be plumbing, electricity, woodworking, roofing, tiling, insulation, and the list goes on. Luckily I have some sort of knowledge or at least am familiar with how I would go about some of these things I listed like insolation and tiling.
Figuring out the timeline of both of these projects is pretty much impossible at the moment because there are so many factors that could affect the timeline. If I had to make an ideal guess it would be take about a year or so to build/renovate either.
There are hundreds of things that I would need to know before starting either project. A couple of examples of that would be the materials, know which companies to ask to do some of the work for me, and the cost of everything.
Speaking of the cost. For my tiny house project, I did calculate the cost of every material that I would use if I were to actually go forward with this project. I found the document where I calculated the cost in my Google drive and found that tit would only cost me about $5,500 in materials to build it. I don’t think that included things like setting up the electricity and plumbing but that’s pretty cheap if I do say for myself. By the way, the house is 500 square feet.
Either way, I would love the have the means and the opportunity to do one of them one day. Not everyone gets to say they built a tiny house before 😉