[2banana]

Well, $40K + you need to by a lot + taxes + utility hook ups + delivery...

[tflabo]

I’d rather live in a treehouse with a little land and no noisy neighbors.

[SamAdams76]

I like the concept but it needs running water. I’m not showering at the YMCA!

[tflabo]

The gubermint will find a method of vertical square air footage to calculate their ‘property ‘ taxes.

[jonrick46]

That’s lots of stair climbing. There needs to have a bathroom on every floor.

[MrEdd]

It misses the biggest advantage of the Tiny House housing sector.
The best tiny houses are really very upscale mobile dwellings. You can get a log cabin built on a trailer that is insulated and durable like standard housing, but which can be moved across the country to follow the job market.

If you work on pipelines, you can move your house from Texas to South Dakota for the or four years, then to where the jobs are after that. But the house has to meet highway standards so one story plus a loft is about it.

[Tax-chick]

The first prototype doesn’t have space for a kitchen or running water, based on the reasoning that someone living in the middle of an urban neighborhood could get food elsewhere and shower at a gym ...

They could sleep in their car, too.

[Pearls Before Swine]

On the plus side, it has lots of skylights.

And, all that up and down on the stairs has to be a fitness plus (unless your knees and hips are shot).

[iowamark]

Looks nice, but needs running water.

[adorno]

The first prototype doesn’t have space for a kitchen or running water, based on the reasoning that someone living in the middle of an urban neighborhood could get food elsewhere and shower at a gym (it does have a composting toilet).

They could've built another story to accommodate a kitchen. And another story for a guest bedroom. And another story for a REAL full bathroom.

The phoniest part of the "tiny" label, is that they're calling it tiny because of the space it occupies on the ground floor. They could build it up to 20 floors high and still call it "tiny".

[WeWaWes]

The Tiny House fad is just another example of how Gen X and Millennials have never grown up and in fact is still playing ‘house.’

These things are a blight and many municipalities are enacting ordinances against them—as they should imho.

[fulltlt]

Top Gear

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I7g08nwEmyY

[V_TWIN]

Looks like it would tip over in a high wind IMO.

[Lonely Bull]

“The city is not designed because of humans–it’s designed because of cars,” says architect Marco Casagrande, principal at the Helsinki-based Casagrande Laboratory, which designed the new tiny house. “All the streets in cityscapes are based on car dimensions. This I found a little bit strange. We have all this talk about the density of cars getting less and less in cities, and at the same time, we are talking about people moving into cities . . . but we don’t have space to build. Nobody has been questioning car parking spaces. They are everywhere. So this talk about no land to build in cities is nonsense: It’s everywhere, but it’s just for cars.”(snip)

Wow, those cars sure knew how to dominate things.

[Hot Tabasco]

Nothing more exciting than a very tall, skinny house in a strong wind storm.......

[TexasFreeper2009]

the first gust of wind ... and that will be laying on its side.

[762X51]

So you crap in a bucket and shower with the Village People. Boy those Swedes sure are progressive. Hell the 19th American century pioneers had an outhouse and a well.

[Professional Engineer]

Between trees, bridges, stoplights, utility lines, and other obstructions, that thing cannot be moved.

[freepertoo]

Would love to have a tiny house.

[bgill]

No heat (not buying the self insulating), no water, no sewer, no kitchen. What’s the point? Save that $40k and live in a cardboard box.