Ash Barwick and Jake Williams-sims are transforming a historic Tasmanian train carriage into a tiny house for their new, self-sufficient life.
When Ash Barwick and Jake Williams-sims transported their new 130-year-old train carriage home to Tasmania's Gravelly Beach on a truck, bits of it fell off on the highway.Mr Williams-sims said of the carriage: "She's in pretty rough condition, but we're going to make it into home.
The couple learned that their carriage had been one of 52 carriages in the DB class, which transported passengers, freight and livestock across Tasmania from the 1890s to the 1980s.Having secured carriage "DB15", they are now keen to find out what happened to the others, and have discovered another one is also undergoing a conversion."She's living in it, doing the same thing as us.
"We travelled around Australia in a caravan for four and a half months two years ago … and it inspired us to live a bit more simple," said Mr Williams-sims.Unfortunately for Ms Barwick and Mr William-sims, living self-sufficiently is an increasingly popular goal among land buyers in Tasmania, and acquiring a block to put the carriage on has proved difficult."Since the COVID thing, everybody's gone towards that self-sustainable sort of living," said Ms Barwick.
"We were a bit worried that the council was going to make us move it as soon as we put it here," laughed Mr Williams-sims."But no, everybody loves it, they all stop in and have look."
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