Every year I have my chimney cleaned and my fire extinguisher tested. I also disinfect my water tank and water pipe once a year. But my gas installation? I had never checked it since I came to live in my house, now more than three years ago. So, it was about time! In fact, you […]
New course: From initiative group to housing cooperative
In my July newsletter you have already read the announcement. Now the time has come: the course “From initiative group to housing cooperative” is online! This course helps you and your group to set up a cooperative for your Tiny House housing project. But even if you want to set up an association, I can […]
Tiny Houses: beyond the pilot phase
The demand for Tiny House residential locations is still increasing. Municipalities are getting more and more questions from residents about the possibility of living in a small, simple and environmentally conscious way. But concrete residential locations are only appearing slowly. What is the reason for this, when this new form of living is clearly an […]
Keeping your Tiny House cool
Tropical temperatures will reach our country this week. The weather forecast predicts for Thursday that the national heat record from 1944 could even be broken! While I am writing this, it is still a comfortable 22 degrees in my Tiny House, but on Thursday I had better look for some coolness elsewhere … Even if […]
Summer promotion: 10% discount, and win a meet & greet!
From now until the end of August you can buy the online basic course “Your Tiny House – from dream to reality” with a 10% discount! You also have a chance to win a meet & greet with me at my Tiny House in Alkmaar. Holiday time is the perfect time to start making your […]
Build your own Tiny House
You must have seen it pass by at some point. When you spend a bit of time in online Tiny House circles you can hardly miss it. The newest addition to the Dutch Tiny House library: Build your own Tiny House by Jan-Willem van der Male and Noortje Veerman. And it is really to be […]
Tiny Houses and the Building Decree
When you want to live in a Tiny House legally, you will need an environmental permit for building. Even when your house is built elsewhere and is moved to the place where you are going to live in it, the environmental permit is for “the construction of a building”. The 2012 Building Decree is a […]
Road trip with Lisse
And before you know it, you’re a tour guide and you find yourself in a coach packed with aspiring Tiny House residents and councilors from the municipality of Lisse. What a fun experience! About 40 people visited the BouwEXPO Tiny Housing in Almere and the Tiny House village in Alkmaar. While we were on the […]
Four years of Marjolein in het Klein
Today is the fourth anniversary of my blog, hooray! Wow, four years already. I can’t believe how time flies. So much has happened in those four years! For starters, I’ve published 346 blogs on Marjolein in het klein (and a few more on other websites). I’ve given about 70 lectures. I’ve seen the attention for […]
Youth and the future, part two
The reactions to my blog from last Tuesday call for a new blog as a response. Some people heavily agree with me, but others are outraged that I put all the blame on the older generations (in which I include myself). I would like to say something about that. First of all, this is my […]