About Us
Our Mission
Welcome to Portland Alternative Dwellings (PAD), a tiny house construction company based in Portland Oregon. We’re dedicated to creating small, eco-friendly dwellings that fit your needs.
Our structures are designed on wheels, giving you the flexibility of placing them in just the right spot for today, and into the future. A PAD offers a perfect extension to any home, as an office space, writing studio, retreat space or guest studio. It can also be built as fully equipped, self-contained tiny dwellings.
Our company is focused on the use of quality, environmentally-friendly products; bringing expert craftsmanship to the forefront in all aspects of the building process. Use one of our plans, or bring your own – we can work with you to create a PAD that fits your needs and, let’s face it, will likely be the cutest thing on the block.
Want to build your own? PAD also provides design and building consultation, we host workshops, and want to encourage you (in whatever way possible) to dream big, and build small.
The Don Vardo is a great example of our work, check it out!
Our Team
Katy Anderson
Katy is a licensed contractor in Portland, Oregon. She has over twenty years of construction experience, with a focus on finish carpentry and custom cabinetry. She most recently completed the two year furniture making program at The College of the Redwood’s School of Fine Woodworking in Fort Bragg, California.
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Dee Williams
Dee operates a small woodworking company, called Boxcar Woodcraft, out of Olympia Washington. Beyond simple construction projects, Dee has also completed/supported class projects and community events that are centered on green building and voluntary simplicity. Boxcar’s message has been simple: positive change begins at home. The primary tool used to animate that message is a tiny 84 square-foot bungalow, called “The Little House” that Dee built and has lived in since 2004. The Little House has been discussed in the media and used by educators, urban planners and others as an example of extreme down-sizing, green building and simplicity.
To date, over 20-million people have either walked through the Little House or toured it virtually; the house has been featured in Yes!Magazine, TIME Magazine, on Good Morning America, NBC Evening News, National Public Radio, and other media. In 2008, Boxcar won the Washington State Governor’s Award for Sustainable Practices.
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