He leafs through a notebook which reveals tender words under family photos: a toddler is messing around with ducks, a teenager is concentrating on a board game, another is building an arch… Boris Kuffler has in mind the film that animates each of these clichés. “The children gave me this album, we had already left the tiny house. It's always moving to watch all this. »
Twelve months. A memorable interlude. Boris Kuffler gave himself a strange life four years ago. He and his three children nestled in less than 25 square meters.
A decision which surprised his family at the time, without them reluctant for a second to follow him on this crazy adventure. “I experienced a separation and I couldn't see myself leaving a house in the countryside for an F3 in the city, that was the trigger. I contacted a manufacturer in Annecy, we brought the tiny to a forest in Pange and, for the children, the adventure began, in full confinement! »
Happy sobriety
In his cozy living room, under the watchful eye of the cat Badabada, the man many know for his investment in the Moselle associative world (and as a musician) recounts his daily life Captain Fantastic (the movie).
Children outside all day, the forest, winter and its cool nights tempered by human warmth, improvised activities without smartphones and the daily inspection of skin to find ticks.
Four seasons and then gone. “I met a lover, and her son. With six in a tiny house, it became complicated! »
On the Vittoncourt side, the troop found bigger, more comfortable too, obviously, but the reflexes have not changed. The tribe pays attention to everything. Three stoves in the kitchen, the bedroom, the living room, an 80 liter water heater instead of 200 “because the more hot water we have, the more we consume”, push-button shower to enhance the vice. “We tested it, it quickly got annoying! » But also, and above all, dry toilets, everywhere. “They sometimes forget to flush the toilet at their mother’s house! »
The vegetable garden avoids supermarkets. Short circuit! And for water, two 1,000 liter tanks in the garden and another for recovery.
Creator of wooden objects
And projects galore: “Heating the water with the sun, channeling it to the shower, installing a few photovoltaic panels to produce a little electricity. » Logical, coherent changes.
The Mosellan even changed jobs. “I came home late, I was running everywhere. I had two strokes. I had some savings and I stopped everything after an hour of reflection. »
The territorial civil servant turns to creation, the artist that he has always been. It will be wood. In his studio attached to the house, he lets his imagination run wild. And already, we're ringing it. For a raft, for a door renovation, for the creation of a cabin on stilts, for dry toilets, even! “My family and I are where we wanted to be. And I feel free, more bohemian, calmer, finally. »
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