chelsey braham

Hi, thanks for visiting!  My website’s current focus is all about the home we are building.   I want to share what I am learning about affordable property development,  and housing alternatives.  So if you have a question or comment,  please ask away!

Determined to have a warm home by this winter,  I have spent the past several months developing a basic homesite from a patch of raw land.   Not something I have done before,  and as a young woman it is a constant struggle not to get intimidated by the job,  the building inspectors, and other authorities.    As per our local building authority, (the RDN)  we have to have a septic system and a potable water supply.   This has taken several months to organize.   And this combined with getting power to the site has eaten up most of the budget.

So we decided to go for a mobile home.   We ended up getting one for next to nothing,  just the (high) cost of delivery in fact.   It had been mostly gutted and I am excited about starting fresh and leaving the world of narrow hallways and little rooms behind.  We are going to go for an open floorplan.  The only interior wall being the bathroom.  Our bed will be out in the livingroom for all to see! I guess you can call it a bachelor-trailer.

After a tramatic move onto our foundation (earlier post), the renovation and repair process is taking a lot of time.  Our “free” mobile needs a lot of work and as we peel off the layers,  we are finding many suprises lurk in the ancient crevices of 1979.   But there are things I really like about it as well,  like the steel chassis it sits on.  Having a bit of solid steel under your feet is a comfortable situation.