It's 2012. Laurence Sarrazin and Eric Ludlum (Core77's Editorial Director) have dreams of finishing a "tiny house"—a 280 sq. foot home for a family of four. They've run through prototypes and workshops, designed a structure and bracket system, and a 28' x 10' trailer is custom built by MS Metal Works in Mollalla, OR.

Then the fall rains came, and the tiny house hopeful was not rolled out, but rolled in, covered in a tarp, and let down for a little trailer sleep. And as project fate would have it, it would not wake until another Eric/Laurence project matched up, and Core77 and Coroflot growth demanded the trailer's proposed intentions be reimagined.

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Last year, having sold the land that was Eric's childhood home, Laurence and Eric had the opportunity to fell the second-growth trees from that plot. They seized the chance to repurpose the Douglass Fir's, the very same ones Eric climbed in his wee-days in Tigard, OR (then an unincorporated part of Washington County), and the resulting lumber is the 5000 board feet that now sit in our garage—destined to be built-in furniture, shelving and flooring of the newest addition to the Coroflot office. Just as Hand-Eye was born out of Core77, so was Coroflot, which, as we know, has come to be one of the most fruitful web hubs for design opportunities and portfolios.

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So with fresh lumber, a trailer frame, and a need for more office space, Coroflot's new office takes up residence in the garage of it's other sister: us!—Hand-Eye Supply.

Follow along here, on the HES blog, and stop by Hand-Eye's Design Week Portland Open House this Thursday, April 21 from 4-7 pm to see the in-process project and talk about the build. We'll surely have a Ft. George brew in hand.

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Written by Jeff Rutherford, originally for HES.