Tiny House Tuesday: The Littlest Lakeside Cabin
July 21, 2009
WHO: Tereasa Surratt and David Hernandez
WHERE: Sugar Creek, Wisconsin, by way of Beardstown, Illinois
WHAT: An itty-bitty weekend retreat, rescued from certain destruction
SIZE: 121 square feet
11 x 11: a prime example of petite perfection.
It may not be Tereasa Surratt and David Hernandez’s home base, but this teeny-tiny lakeside retreat smacks of Small living, stem to stern. Once part of a 1920′s-era cabin court adjacent to Surratt’s grandmother’s house in Illinois, this 121-footer had certainly seen better days: the abandoned cabins were a set of sad little structures, completely dilapidated and ready to be razed.
But Surratt and Hernandez saw potential; “History has value,” she tells Chicago Home + Garden‘s Gina Bazer. So, in 2006, the couple plunked down $500 for the tiny place, trucked it to their lakeside Wisconsin property, and set to work restoring the space to its original Roaring ’20′s glory, complete with vintage furnishings and old-school details. See for yourself: Chi H + G‘s got a pair of slideshows, one cabin-focused, the other zeroed in on the Smalls.
