Posted on 12/18/2013 4:23:12 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Architect Macy Miller had a big idea: Build a tiny house.
After dealing with a messy foreclosure, the 30-year-old sought a way to have a place of her own while avoiding the mortgage trap. Her solution: Build a micro home.
"I wanted a way to escape dependency on banks without being a 'renter,'" the Idaho resident told Yahoo in an email. "I like having my own space to make my own, which is difficult to do without taking out a large mortgage."
Miller began to build a 196-square-foot house in 2011, right on a flatbed truck. The cost: $11,400. The handy Miller did most of the work herself, with advice from her friends and father as needed.
Miller did need some extra help last August: While working on her roof, she fell and broke her foot and her back in two places. She says she has since recovered from her injuries.
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$11,000 for a tree house on the ground is a bit much.
she said it , she did it
Welcome to Obama Towers....
Not bad.
Sometimes all you need to be happy is a small home and the means and ability to afford travel.
They're called mobile homes. People in trailer parks live in them inexpensively.
I’m all for it. Get you some land, buy you some plywood, and build you a house. Start small, and add to it, with no debt. Davy Crockett did it. So did Daniel Boone.
I like it!
From 1987 to 1994, on Long Island, NY, the home of “the mother/daughter house”, I lived in a one-car-garage-turned-apartment!
It was cozy.
Amazing. Expenses are about $250 per month?
and this quote:
“Miller is settling in for her first winter in the cozy home with her 100-pound Great Dane, Denver, and her baby-to-be: She is pregnant and due in March.”
(Correction. They didn’t use plywood. Home Depot and credit cards were not yet invented.)
also - it’s built on a flatbed truck and currently parked in an empty lot
Maybe the great dane will eat the baby. Or the baby will grow up to ride the great dane. Whatever floats your boat: thank GOD it’s still a free country (for the moment).
It’s called a trailer house. We’ve had them for years.
Interesting idea.
I have no idea where the sweet spot is but it seems to me they could make it a little larger and still not be very expensive.
When I returned to college to get my masters I decided to just live in my travel trailer. It was 35 feet long so a bit larger than that house but it was perfectly comfortable.
Also to all those people who always talk about trailer parks etc., my next door neighbors were a young couple who had a little six year old girl. They were as nice a couple as I have ever known.
When they turned my power on, they did not hook it up. I had to do that myself. My neighbor was nice enough to do it for me as I had no idea how.
Better to buy a used RV.
They’re called “Tumbleweed” homes, and they’re a hell of an idea for many people!
A quick search will show MANY innovative and useful designs, from full-time residences to luxury hunt cabins.
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