DALLAS: Beth Ann Norrgard was ready for big change to become small.
Norrgard was living in a 1929 Tudor home.
“It was the most darling house you ever laid eyes on, but it was too much for me,” she said of the 1,148-square-foot home. “I just really felt trapped by a 30-year mortgage.”
She said it felt as though she was working in order to earn to buy things to fill the house.
“It really wasn’t fulfilling,” she said as she took a break from helping her parents downsize from their home to assisted living.
“So I just decided to walk away from everything,” she said.
“I said I needed to create my own,” Norrgard recalled. Norrgard had been following the tiny house movement online for a couple of years.
By the summer of 2014, she was living in her tiny house (one she built largely with her own hands with help from friends). She writes a blog, teaches a webinar, and helps others with tiny house building projects…
