sustainable building center on granville island

Located on top of Rogers Chocolates.

They have events.
Talks on most weekends that are by donation. They sound really good.

They have homeowner education.




They resell rubber flooring.



We need to visit them and build a relationship. If anyone who can stick their head in, ask questions and be sociable we can start to be around a bit and learn from them. I'd hope that we can eventually get stuff at discounts or for free.

Floorplanner

I took a peek at some drawings on the Tiny House Forum (definitely worth trolling for examples and info,) which were made with a program called floorplanner. Here's one I made playing around with the program, which is super easy to use.

It's also free to sign up. With the free account, you can work on/ edit one project. It's worth playing around with, and is helping me get some context of what fits in a tiny space.

Everyone should try it out:) It has a sexy 3d render function, so you can see what the house would look like. Very cool.

Update: Google sketchup is also a good option for drawing and rendering in 3d, as far as free software is concerned. This is a pretty sweet image drawn in it, from the Tiny House Forum.