56-Year-Old Builds Tiny House, Breaks Up With Big Dreams
Louise Southerden, a 56-year-old Aussie travel writer with 25 years of globetrotting under her belt and zero building skills, flipped the pandemic having to stay put into an eight-month tiny house odyssey in northern New South Wales. Facing Sydney rents that could buy small islands and having no land to call her own, she crafted her 23x8 foot portable cabin on wheels with help from her ex-scientist-boyfriend Max and his retired builder buddy. The love didn’t survive the shed-sized sweatshop, but her budget-friendly sanctuary did, parked cheaper than half the average local apartment rent and complete with birdwatching breakfast views, starry bed loft nights, and zero debt. Tiny house code? Still MIA. Happiness? Off the charts.
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When rent from hell meets pandemic downtime, you get a 56-year-old travel writer building a tiny house with zero skills and a breakup on the blueprint. Big life moves happen in spaces smaller than your nightmares about rent hikes.
56, pandemi-cursed, and landlord-rejected, Louise turned her rent despair into a literal portable home drama. Who says mid-life crises can’t involve screws, sawdust, and a breakup? #TinyHouseBigFeelings
Building your first home while your relationship crumbles sounds like extreme DIY but it’s just Tuesday in 2020. Bonus points: It’s mobile, affordable, and a cage for your emotional baggage.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 10/11/2025 | Author: Louise Southerden
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