Tiny House: Innermost House: An Off-Grid Cabin in California

Reader Contribution by Susan Melgren and Web Editor
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Diana and Michael Anthony Lorence have been living in tiny houses for almost three decades. Motivated by their desire for a simple life that left them open to pursue inquiry and the highest truth, the couple has furnished, remodeled or built more than 20 tiny houses in the past 30 years. For the past seven of those, the Lorences have lived in the Innermost House, a 144-square-foot, unelectrified cabin in the coastal mountains of Northern California that epitomizes simple living.

Situated with a hill to its back, the home faces south. An open porch, sparsely furnished with two chairs, shields the front door. Inside, the tiny home is separated into five rooms. On the home’s east side, an 11-by-7-foot living room with a 12-foot-high ceiling features only a stone fireplace with a generous hearth, a wall of books, and two low chairs, facing each other so as to facilitate conversation. The west side of the home is divided into three rooms–a kitchen, study and bathroom–each measuring 5-by-3 feet. A sleeping loft, accessible by a wooden ladder in the living room, tops the three west rooms.

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