Posted on 03/29/2012 8:59:27 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
BOULDER, Colo. -- With grand designs on minimizing their housing footprint, Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller have spent the last 10 months building the tiny home of their dreams.
"It's 19 feet long wall to wall,” Smith said. “The interior square-footage is about 125 square feet.”
The interior layout consists of a sitting area, kitchen and bathroom. A vaulted ceiling makes room for a sleeping loft that can accommodate a queen-size mattress
Good on them—the rare sustainability people who are actually attempting to practice what they preach!
This seems to me not far from the libertarian, minimalist-government edge of modern liberalism—which isn’t a bad thing either.
The government will include them in the housing starts data.
10 months to build a garden shed?
same as Denver which almost as many enviro freeks.
I'll see your CU-Boulder and raise you a UC Berkeley ...
LOL! Now there is “CURB APPEAL” for you!
-—I’m all for projects such as this if people are looking to save money. Just don’t feed me the “reducing our footprint” baloney.-—
My opinion exactly.
Good grief!....Next craze for these whack lefties will be 3 x 3 cardboard boxes.
Hopefully they will continue to downsize until they disappear:-)
While it was fine, and it made sense at the time (easier to heat a small house in a backwoods Maine winter) I swore that I wasn't going to live in one again.
My place, currently, is huge. It's not me "making a statement", or enjoying an ego trip. I just like it. I love the 10' ceilings in my living room that's big enough to hold a costume ball in. It's nice to get up in the morning and STR-E-T-CH and not scrape my knuckles on the ceiling or the walls.
I've always been a litle claustrophobic. Wonder if that's a learned behavior from where I grew up?
Yeah?...Wait til YOU have to live in one required by the federal government.
OJT obviously...
I stayed there once. It was flipping HOT upstairs, and that was in February.
After Katrina, they built a few little “cajun cottages” that were small (I don’t know the Sq. fr) but they are cute. But, the average homebuyer isn’t buying.
Boulder Colorado = Home of weird hippies
Aren’t they being good little serfs??
Not to mention the confined space all winter long...That would do it alone.
This is the pattern of liberals. They have to "out commit" the other liberals in order to show their devotion to the cause. If their neighbor buys a hybrid, they have to have an all electric car. That cause the next guy to buy a tiny little electric car. Then, the next guy has to buy a bicycle and at some point the rest can only walk to prove their love for Gaia.
They must carry their own hemp shopping bags to the coop and always, always look down on those who care less or consume more than they do.
What is it with these wing nuts and their guilt trip about being alive? They all need to curl up into little balls and just die!
Neat...... A home is a home as long as one is happy and satisfied. Those Tiny Texas Houses I linked to are expensive is you let the company build them for you.
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