Posted on 10/28/2015 7:57:49 PM PDT by grundle
While there are quite a few tempting "turn-key" tiny homes available to order right now, there's just something about a super personalized owner-built home that's extra thrilling to see. Case in point: this 160-square-foot "Tiny Hall House" ("Hall" being the owners' surname) in Massachusetts, which was built for under $30K over six months and houses three people.
Looking snugly lived-in and photoshoot-ready at the same time, the home comes with the standard tiny living accoutrements, including a lofted Queen bed, compact "couch" that doubles as a bed for the couple's son (the space is about two feet wide by eight feet long, which makes it about a foot narrower than the typical twin bed), kitchenette, and composting toilet. Even more rad are custom touches like the bookshelves hidden in the gabled entrance and the miniature bedside stands and lamps. Intrigued? The owners are answering tiny house questions and dropping wisdom over on their Tumblr site.
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Well that is probably a WTF, but also a WTF is thinking that this tiny house is hunky dory cos it ain’t for those who work hard and were able to move into a house that isn’t tiny.
Or rather, this tiny house is hunky dory but not something some of us consider a dream home. How’s that?
My 3,000 sq ft house is almost mortgage free...a few more years...and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. In a few years we will own it outright.
And I didn’t have to live in a little peoples home.
My plastic model stash is bigger than the whole house.
“Despicable”? I can think of a lot of despicable things, but this wouldn’t be one of them.
And the only people who say this are the people who can’t afford a larger house.
Too true, unfortunately.
People live in what they can afford.
The "tiny house" movement is quite interesting to watch here in the U.S. Some of it is out of necessity, some is out of the cost of housing being so high in parts of the country.
In parts of Europe including Netherlands and Belgium among others, families of four tend to live quite comfortably in 600sf or less. Their use of space is quite efficient.
Exactly. Well said.
Hell yeah.
ITA
They make those too and ... get this ... they have pull-outs like RV's to increase living space.
Some people build them on trailers and travel the country pulling their house behind them.
I'm retiring in June of 2017 at 55. Oldest son will be almost done with college, youngest son will (hopefully.....) be starting college somewhere. Our plan is to sell the house, retire, and either buy a few year old RV or build a tiny house on a trailer, buy a new diesel F250 and travel the country.
I'm NOT kidding.
This is where we’re headed, back to the Middle Ages. - hovels for most people, mansions for the elite
It is not abusive at all. People live in campers all over the country. This is what folks do to get by. What is abusive is to live greatly beyond your means and swimming in debt. Looks like a tidy place, really small,but a nice place.
One of my best friends grew up in the basement of a small cafe with a couple of siblings. Not a big deal.
Yep, its on wheels; they are seen in one of the pics...
How much land does it come with for that $30k? If none than it’s a camping trailer. A very over priced trailer.
Way overpriced. I spent a lot less for a two story, four bedroom house with an attached garage and a double lot, sitting right across the street from a nice park.
Yep and it’s what our government and the democrats and their now voter majority is leaving to our children.
It’s not the Boomer’s fault by any stretch of the imagination.
Why shouldn’t I encourage my kids to move up, just like my parents encouraged me? Why is moving up considered a bad thing now?
This is the American Dream that was crushed by our government, and by our government’s insistence on all the programs for those who won’t do for themselves.
This is now the American Dream, thanks to the hippies of the 1960s and the politicians of that era, and all the government funding and intrusion in our lives,and all those who opted out for whatever reason.
I’m a member of that so called Boomer era and it wasn’t those people who did this...thank the media, the government and their intrusion into every aspect of our lives, and the people who allowed it to happen. The people allowed it to happen in our economy, our religious institutions, our schools, our media. Especially our schools and media.
I read somewhere that Detroit is either looking at, or doing the same thing to "house the homeless."
BTW, Seattle is pretty much ground zero in the tiny house movement. I saw one family who owned a "normal" home while other family members lived in a tiny house in their back yard. The tiny house was connected up to the electric and water and used some fancy environmental-something-or-other for waste water.
IIRC, Seattle's still trying to stop tiny homes from spreading. Wondering what any Seattle Freepers can add here....
[I’m a member of that so called Boomer era and it wasn’t those people who did this.]
While we were majoring in jobs that would better ourselves and the economy, the hippies were majoring in law, political science, and were setting themselves to takeover the university system.
We were too busy to see it coming.
Great story.
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