Couple build tiny house to live in for grad school

From the Times-News:

If anyone can live together peacefully in 200 square feet of space, Lily and Matt Kirk (along with their dog Uwharrie) think they can do it.

Lily Kirk has been busy building the tiny house they will live in once she starts graduate school at the University of Florida this April.

“We're not staying there forever,” she said. “We have to figure out where to park it.”

The house, based on a design by tiny house advocate, teacher, and book author Dan Louche, has a trailer bed for a foundation, so it's good to go on the road. . .

Last fall, the Kirks enrolled in a workshop Louche was giving in Flat Rock, as they'd been curious about tiny houses for a while.

Ignoring the fact that she had never built anything in her life, not even a bookcase, Lily Kirk undertook the task of building a tiny home.

To learn some skills, she asked to assist in the construction of a tiny house — designed by Flat Rock resident Roger Bass — which, once complete, will be lifted onto stilts among trees at Highland Lake Cove. . .

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