Karin decided to build her tiny home after realizing she couldn’t afford a normal-sized home in Portland, Oregon, without going deep into debt. After watching a news clip of Jay Shafer’s tiny home, she chose to build a tiny home to live debt-free.
“Serenity” – the name Karin chose for her tiny abode – has a double meaning. A self-proclaimed geek, Karin named her tiny sanctuary after the starship on her favorite sci-fi TV show, “Firefly,” and also because the definition of the words means: the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.
Currently, Karin’s tiny home is parked in a backyard community in Portland, Oregon, along with two other tiny homes. Karin’s role in the community is to care for the garden. This year they harvested more than enough fruit and greens to feed all seven members throughout the summer months.
Simply Home Community is about to celebrate their one year anniversary. We’d like to congratulate Karin, Tony, Lina and the other community members, for creating a sustainable tiny house community model!
I hope someone starts a tiny home community around where I live soon !
Lovely video, thanks. Lovely tiny house. Great colours and textures inside
and out. Loved the ladder/shelf idea
By this point before even loading the video I click like because there’s no
point in delaying the inevitable
What a lovely home! ♡♡♡
Karin has a great sense of colour, and a lovely home. Thank you for the
tour.
Love these interviews and tours, thanks for bringing it home to all of us.
It’s very nice to see a different age bracket– so many featured
tiny-housers are early 20s, despite the stats saying that more than 50% are
above 50yrs. I wondered, does this house have sheetrock on the walls? Also
I have a question about cork floors- aren’t they hard to clean?
I love all her colors!
Superb! Would love to live like this!
Love the cat licking its lips in that window!
I had a feeling it was a Firefly reference. Love that show!
yay firefly fan :)
Karen, What kind of structure would you like to build in the sunken gazebo
space
What a lovely story and home. Love the name and the reasons behind it-
Firefly is one of my favs, too.
1 word : Astonishing
love the appa poster from avatar haha. this lady is awesome. great and
relaxing looking home
Not to be shallow…I mean, she BUILT HER OWN HOUSE! Having said that, she
is such a beautiful woman! That hair! Her skin! She’s lovely. And her house
is amazingly welcoming-looking, peaceful, a sanctuary. A few months ago I
checked out all the episodes of “Firefly” but only managed to get through
the first two before they were due back at the library 🙂 I’d forgotten
about watching more until I saw your interview with Karin 🙂 She seems like
a great person to while away a day with in conversation and laughter.
cute lightning light
love this!
I love watching these vlogs…thanks so much for creating them. Really
inspiring! =)
I really Realllllllllllly love!