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Tumbleweed Tiny House Company (Oh No.)
Web Site for Tumbleweed Tiny Houses ^ | Various | Jay Shafer

Posted on 07/21/2010 8:30:00 AM PDT by combat_boots

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To: combat_boots

Sometimes I fantasize about having a small studio apartment, where I can escape from accumulated stuff and other people’s messes and demands.

But small means, oh, about 250 square feet.

These tiny house people are most of them “child-free”. And “partner-free.” Sometimes you do read about a family with one or two children living in 400 square feet and doing it rather ingeniously. More power to them - that’s how our forebears lived, only with a whole lot more children than that.

Now go play outside.


21 posted on 07/21/2010 8:50:15 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: ctdonath2

“No need to belittle personal preferences.”

But it seems he is trying to make himself out to be special. We have more than enough space for everyone. I am not impressed.


22 posted on 07/21/2010 8:51:48 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (Reid: Why , oh why, are they picking on me?)
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To: combat_boots

$38,997 for 65 square feet!!! Get real!


23 posted on 07/21/2010 8:52:43 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: AnAmericanMother

That kind of house really appeals to me. Can you tell us more? Where it was, how well the passive heating cooling worked, architect’s name, pictures?


24 posted on 07/21/2010 8:53:08 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: chrisser
I could live in a small house on a large piece of land. But only if I had a large barn/garage/workshop.

I've got a 2K sq/ft house and it's twice as much as I need. (I live alone.)

If the housing market ever comes back I'm selling my place and either building something like the Tumbleweed (over a large underground bunker) or something like the below pic:


25 posted on 07/21/2010 8:54:15 AM PDT by cowboyway (Molon labe)
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To: combat_boots
It would be fine to live in Barbara Streisand's closet. Saw her interviews years ago at her home and her closet is just under 5000 sq feet....Same thing with elton John....the hollywood elite have closets bigger than most of our homes and tell us about saving the planet by using less water, toilet paper and electricity....hypocrits all... Can't stand to listen to any of them.....
26 posted on 07/21/2010 8:54:27 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: combat_boots

Since his tiny house is on wheels, and not a permanent structure, I assume he doesn’t pay homeowner’s property taxes on it. Do property taxes work that way in California?


27 posted on 07/21/2010 8:55:01 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: Le Chien Rouge

If you click on his picture to see the inside at the end of the video you learn he is recently married and is expecting a child. The have built another tiny home next to his existing one.


28 posted on 07/21/2010 8:57:26 AM PDT by mimaw
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To: cowboyway

That thing is gorgeous!


29 posted on 07/21/2010 8:57:50 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: combat_boots

in the closet in more than one way perhaps?


30 posted on 07/21/2010 8:58:04 AM PDT by donmeaker ("Get off my lawn." Clint Eastwood, Green Ford Torino)
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To: I cannot think of a name
Like your idea about the federal government fitting into an 80 sq foot office....I'd give them a bigger building but demand any law written must not run over 3 pages long. No legalese wording and they meet only 6 months out of the year....having to be in Washington for so long, they have to justify it by making idiot laws than only a lawyer could understand..
31 posted on 07/21/2010 8:59:50 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: combat_boots

There is a guy in Luling, TX that builds these using mostly recycled materials. A little too small and pricey if you ask me. But if you had a small piece of property in the country, it might be doable for a weekend place.

http://www.tinytexashouses.com/index.html


32 posted on 07/21/2010 8:59:51 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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To: combat_boots
Oh!...Come on now!....The Obama adminstration has much smaller ideas to save the environment!!!
33 posted on 07/21/2010 9:01:22 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: heartwood

Watched a special last winter about people that live in caves...it was amazing...


34 posted on 07/21/2010 9:02:04 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: smokingfrog

83 square feet is barely enough for a decent gunsafe.


35 posted on 07/21/2010 9:02:25 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: mia

My wife and I moved from a large five bedroom home to a 1000 sq ft condo while we prepare to move permanently to Kentucky. The place, even at a whopping 1000 sq ft, seriously cramped our lifestyle. I have no recording/rehearsal studio. No place to refinish furniture, maintain my bicycle, my car, etc. With the condo we feel like we simply “exist”.

It is like putting our life on hold. There is very little you can do in that space beyond read books and watch TV (and surf the internet).

This is a novelty and nothing more. Still, having one in the backyard would be cool for when guests come. But then, they are only visiting, and for temporary digs it would be fine.


36 posted on 07/21/2010 9:02:49 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: chrisser

>>I could live in a small house on a large piece of land.

But only if I had a large barn/garage/workshop.<<

Ha! You beat me to it. When your house is merely the place where you eat and sleep, you don’t need much space.


37 posted on 07/21/2010 9:04:00 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: cowboyway

I sure understand what your saying...I moved from a 2300 sq foot home into a little over 1000 sq feet and that include washer and dryer in the living space not in the basement...had to downsize a lot, but could use more storage space....it was easier to keep the larger home neat and know where everthing was...still have too much STUFF.


38 posted on 07/21/2010 9:06:11 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: RobRoy

I think they are very cute and have used the space efficiently.


39 posted on 07/21/2010 9:07:35 AM PDT by mia
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To: ctdonath2

I actually think it is pretty cool. However, people that live in tiny spaces often do not realize how it actually cramps their lifestyle. I’ve known people that live in permanently parked RV’s in RV parks. Every one I knew lived a very “limited” lifestyle or spent very little time there. They were not very self sufficient because they didn’t have the space to do anything. That about sums it up without going into detail.

If someone uses their home as pretty much just a place to eat and sleep, size isn’t that important. I tried it for a while and had a great time, but it was meant to be temporary. It’s why hotel rooms in resorts are not very big. They don’t need to be. The occupants don’t actually “live” there.


40 posted on 07/21/2010 9:10:18 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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