Off-Grid Living Blueprint

Off-Grid Living Blueprint Thinking about going off-grid but not sure where to start? We’ve been there. Here, we share real, actionable advice on everything from choosing land to set

This page is all about making off-grid living simple, practical, and doable—without the overwhelm.

10/15/2025

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Off-grid weird memory #1: we used to p**p into a 5 gallon paint bucket... one day I amazed my son (6 at the time) that, if you swing the bucket in a circle fast enough, the p**p wouldn't fall out.

I started it and then realized that when I slowed down the swing, the p**p would fall out... it nearly did but saved the day by slowing it down quickly.

TMI?

10/14/2025

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Pro off-grid tip... if you melt snow, it's a 10:1 ratio from snow to water. That means if you collect 10 litres of snow, you'll get 1 litre of water. That's a lot of melting to get a decent amount of water. When living in the RV, we used 5 litres of water per day for brushing teeth, washing dishes and bathing. That's less than the average toilet flush! But it would have taken 50 litres of snow melting to achieve that amount purely from snow!

If you’ve ever thought about going off-grid, start small, and start where you are.Learn how much energy you actually use...
10/07/2025

If you’ve ever thought about going off-grid, start small, and start where you are.

Learn how much energy you actually use each day. Try living on less water for a week. See how it feels to rely on less.

Off-grid living isn’t about escaping the world — it’s about reconnecting with it. Try to reduce the garage you throw out to one bag a week or one bag a month. Eat dinner with less light. Turn down the thermostat a few degrees. See what happens when not every single one of your comforts are met automatically.

It doesn't mean off-grid living is about drastic frugality. It means that you do, however, question your current usage and find out what you actually need to be comfortable. It's usually a lot less than we think we need or have been conditioned to believe we need.

People assume the hardest part of going off-grid is the physical work. It’s not. It’s the mindset shift.In the city, you...
10/07/2025

People assume the hardest part of going off-grid is the physical work. It’s not. It’s the mindset shift.

In the city, you flip a switch and something happens. Off-grid, everything is earned. You fix your own problems but what you gain is trust — in yourself, in your systems, in nature.

I can't tell you how many times I've said, "I hope this works!" Living off-grid is a bit of a personal trail blazing exercise... be ready to be a solve your own problems!

When people think about off-grid homes, they usually picture cabins or tiny houses. But design is everything.The house i...
10/07/2025

When people think about off-grid homes, they usually picture cabins or tiny houses. But design is everything.

The house is positioned south-facing to maximize winter sun and built wide overhangs to block the high summer heat.

Our walls are 12 inches thick with insulated concrete forms (ICF), which means the house holds heat like a thermos.

We also planned all the water systems — kitchen, bathroom, laundry — on the same side of the house to simplify plumbing and reduce heat loss.

Little design choices like these made the difference between “surviving off-grid” and actually living comfortably off-grid.

A lot of people ask how we power this house. Here’s the quick explanation.The house runs completely on solar — no grid t...
10/07/2025

A lot of people ask how we power this house. Here’s the quick explanation.

The house runs completely on solar — no grid tie-in. We’ve got panels feeding into charge controllers, batteries, and an inverter that runs the AC system in the house. AC is "alternating current", which is what powers pretty much everything everywhere.

But solar panels produce what is known as DC power - direct current. It's the type of electricity that is in anything with a battery like your phone, computer, any gadget.

So the house is wired to have both AC and DC circuits. Constant loads like lights, the fridge, water pumps, run on DC power.

That means less energy loss. When you invert DC to AC power, you lose energy.

The Real StartSo, the start of off-grid living is often glamourized... it's not really. It's not just a trek into the wo...
10/07/2025

The Real Start

So, the start of off-grid living is often glamourized... it's not really. It's not just a trek into the woods with an axe.

It wasn’t some grand plan. We moved onto raw land with an old RV, two solar panels, and a wood stove we barely knew how to use. That was it.

We melted snow for water, carried out our waste in buckets. I learned that a family of 3 can actually get by on less than 5 litres of water a day. That's less than one flush of your average toilet.

It was humbling. And it changed the way I saw everything. Instant accessibility to electricity, water, natural gas, internet creates a veil over how fragile our dependence on resources really is.

If you ever want to understand conservation on a deep level, try living where every watt and every drop counts. Unplug from your house, your devices, the grid. Experiment with using less. Throw away one bag of garbage very week - or every month.

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