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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
©R. McFarland
Seven years ago Diana and Michael Lorence moved to a 12-foot-square home without electricity in the coastal mountains of Northern California.
They’re not back-to-the-land types- they’re not growing their own food, nor raising animals-, but, like Thoreau, they were looking for a place where they could get away from the noise of society and focus on their inner lives…
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If I had a boat
I’d go out on the ocean
And if I had a pony
I’d ride him on my boat
~ Lyle Lovett ~
Heather Wilcoxon bought her current home, a turn-of-the-century vessel in 1986 and she’s been remodeling it ever since. The Delta Queen was once a cook house barge in the Sacramento River Delta, but in the seventies it earned a permanent berth in the San Francisco Bay…
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Thank you for this post! I loved seeing Innermost House, it is so absolutely lovely and just the perfect place to live, if I didn’t have health issues. I literally used to dream of coming home through a stormy forest to a little cabin like this, with a warm light glowing through the windows and a fire crackling inside the hearth.
It is incredible, isn’t it?? I stumbled across Innermost House through the Tiny House Blog a few weeks ago; something about the place just really moved me. I don’t often want for things but wow did I find myself wanting their life! From the time I was a kid reading Little House on the Prairie, I’ve wanted to live a more ‘simple’ life and Innermost House is just about the perfect cabin to imagine living in. My husband and I are working towards a ‘tiny house’ but we have another couple of years until the last rugrat is grown so we can really try to make it reality.