Meet Carina Gibson, a multidisciplinary artist passionate about building and creating sustainable structures. She started building his first tiny house in 2019 without prior experience, driven by his desire for a more minimalist and mindful life. Carina aims to promote environmental activism through her creations and draws inspiration from her Finnish-American background in her design and life.
Carina's journey towards minimalism
Carina's journey begins with her interest in building and construction, which she could not pursue while living in the city. However, visiting his hometown of North Carolina sparked an idea she couldn't ignore. He wanted to create a space she could call his own, a space she had paid for and designed himself. This idea is related to its environmental values and minimalism, and building a tiny house is the perfect way to bring this vision to life.
How Carina built a sprawling tiny house without any design background
Carina's creativity and love for experimentation made her jump headfirst into the project. Despite having no background in architecture, engineering or design, Carina quickly designed and built her tiny house.
She draws on his spatial awareness to imagine and draw a design to suit his needs and preferences, ignoring popular blueprints available online. Carina's tiny house is 10 feet wide by 24 feet wide, and she decided to widen it to create a feeling of space.
She made gabled roofs, and part of the house has an attic, but above the bedrooms and living room, there is no attic, which might be considered wasted space. But for Carina, the sense of space is more important than having storage space. The bathroom and kitchen were next to each other, and the bedroom was on the ground floor because he didn't want a loft room.
It took Carina two years to build, but the result is a beautiful and sustainable tiny house that she made with her own hands. Carina hopes to inspire others to live more sustainably and mindfully, and building tiny homes is the best way to achieve this.
Most of Carina's furniture is already installed :
