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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My cousin and his wife put up a camper near the pond of their land, and use it as a weekend home. Really, it's the same concept. They live a couple of hours away, but every weekend they go to their pond where they can fish and hunt to their hearts' content.
They've done a good deal of work to make the camper "permanant" feeling, but it works for them.
I admit I'm intrigued by the tiny house movement, and I think it would work just fine for some people who aren't ready to lay down roots just yet. Or, frankly for me, just to get away every now and then.
By the way... didn't we have a thread recently about a guy who was living out of a storage truck in the Google parking lot, and everyone thought that was quite a thrifty solution?
I love this! Europe as an example of living/housing.
Europe is bordering on third world status. I’m sure they could live comfortably since they have no other choice!
Their use of space is out of necessity. Let’s not sugar coat it.
Let’s not sugar coat Europe. Their wealthy live worse than our lower middle class.
Have you seen how their upper middle to wealthy live? I live better than they do.
Yes people live in what they can afford. Why is this something we should encourage and why is the government encouraging this as good? It’s not. This is third world living on a middle class scale.
Sure poor people should aspire to this. Maybe. But middle class people sure as hell shouldn’t.
My parents, maternal and paternal, lived during the Great Depression, in a tiny rowhome in south philly...parents and 15 kids in a three bedroom home...so don’t tell me about Belgium and the Netherlands or any other country. My family lived it, poor.
They don’t/didn’t romantisize it. It sucked! Being poor sucks. And Europe isn’t a shining example of anything especially how to live well.
The only people who romantisize poverty is those who never had to live it.
Yep
Yes and we’re apparently too busy to see what is happening now in our schools and society (government).
It’s frustrating.
If one has a wilderness, these make cute and inexpensive “cabins in the...” provided there isn’t much winter. I’d also consider the expense of heating and cooling, and how easy they might be to break into. Better would be several, linked, with a nice courtyard between. I can see some of the appeal of this simplicity, but if I did this I’d have to give up the library, the museum, and the various hobby zones.
Need more info.
Rural Arkansas, ca. 1947?
Regards,
Living in a soup can. The American dream. :-)
Richardson TX - 1976
And it was in a nice area, one block away from Roger Staubach’s first house when he first moved to Dallas to play for the Cowboys.
I like watching the shows.
I write down the ideas I like so if I ever get the money to build one I have a good idea of what I could do to make the most of the space.
One couple did a gypsy wagon style that the sides and roof could expand when parked but folded up when they needed to move.
I would have stairs instead of a ladder. Several have had good stair ideas.
One guy did a chicken coop so all he had to do was open a panel to get the eggs. Others have had special areas for pets.
I would need a decent size bathroom, washer/dryer, decent size kitchen area for a fridge that was closer to normal size or small fridge but space for a small chest freezer. Storage for my books.
Because we should want to live as laura Ingalls did? Really? I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in that time period. Why is that considered something to attain?
$30K?
You can buy a full sized house for that in some places.
You forgot the sarcasm tag, right?
In cities like Hong Kong that abusive home you find so despicable would be like a mansion.
And that’s good, why?
This house is more livable in a warm climate where you can be outside more. Plus in such a climate you set up a semi-kitchen outside. A camp stove, a BBQ and a fire pit for being outside at night. You can do half your cooking outside. Even with this the whole “house” will smell like a kitchen just from cooking smells.
You try in Minnesota or Vermont and you will have problems living on top of each other.
How do they bang with junior so close
It ain’t right for kids to hear mom wailing and dad grunting
It damages them
Kids like to think parents don’t do that
Well maybe not in Japan
small house based on cargo container. OK for warm climate. You and children are forced to spend time outdoors instead of indoors in front of a computer screen/TV in a normal size house
That cost $30,000?
Abe Lincoln comes to mind.
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Elvis was born in a very similar house too.
No, because cavemen did the best that they were capable of doing. But these parents are choosing to prevent their child from having any privacy.
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