Home sweet home! Girl, 14, builds herself a tiny $10,000 house as tribute to her late father

It took Sicily Kolbeck, of Georgia, a year and a half of labor and $10,000 to build the 128-square-foot bungalow with a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom Sicily lost her father, Dane Kolbeck, in a car accident a month after construction began She plans to take her tiny dwelling to Baltimore when the family move there in the summer

By Snejana Farberov

Published: 13:42 EST, 27 May 2014 | Updated: 05:36 EST, 28 May 2014

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Building a house from scratch, even a tiny one, is not for the faint of heart, but 14-year-old Sicily Kolbeck has proven she has what it takes to see her passion project through against overwhelming odds.

Kolbeck, from Marietta, Georgia, started work on her diminutive dwelling, lovingly dubbed La Petite Maison, when she was 12.

At the time, the girl was searching for an outside-the-box idea for a school project when she stumbled upon a sizable online community of DIY builders specializing in downsized homes.

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Home sweet home! Girl, 14, builds herself a tiny $10,000 house as tribute to her late father