All this can be yours for just $99! Company makes tiny, 65 sq ft build-it-yourself homes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032402/Tumbleweed-Tiny-House-Company-makes-tiny-65-sq-ft-build-homes.html#ixzz1Wi5vzAXe ^ | 1st September 2011 | Rachel Quigley

[Liberty Valance]

[Moose4]

Eh, I say more power to the guy for seeing a niche and filling it in a unique way. Yes, these houses are largely aimed at hippie greenie-weenie types, and I have a few of those as online acquaintances who are in love with these Tumbleweed houses. But if somebody wants to live in a glorified RV trailer without any room to turn around, hey, why not? That’s their call. And if this is the company I’m thinking of, they actually have a few house plans of a reasonable size, up around 800-1000 sf.

}:-)4

[laotzu]

[KC_Lion]

Whoopee!

I had a builing like that once!

I called it, MY SHED!!!!

[ozark hilljilly]

Where I come from we’d call ‘em either hunting cabins or weaning sheds.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

One point of tiny homes is they’re smaller than what most every zoning jurisdiction considers a regulatable home. You can stick ‘em almost anywhere.

Is that really true?

I'm not doubting you, just would like to be sure for future reference.

I'd like to make something like this for a deer camp on my twenty acres of woods.

[Mr. K]

6 ft. by 11 ft. ???

With a funtional bathroom and kitchen? Only if they are the same thing

[mnehring]

Per Tumbleweed’s website, the plans start at $99 not the house. The smallest house kit is $16k.

[Liberty Valance]

I'm saving up for the motorhome model. ;o)

[Mr. Mojo]

8’ x 8’ homes with “fully functioning kitchens, bathrooms complete with composting toilets and sleeping areas?” Must be real nice having the kitchen and sleeping area just a couple feet from the toilet.

[MrB]

I have no problem with folks CHOOSING to live this way.
I DO have a problem in that, with everything the left does, it ALWAYS goes from an option to mandatory, eventually.

[mnehring]

I would love one as a little hunting cabin. Stick solar panels on the roof and a solar or turbine water pump and it would be pretty cool.

[treetopsandroofs]

KOA Kamping Kabin with facilities.....

Instead of the Mother-in-law home, it’s the teenager pad for the backyard.

[treetopsandroofs]

Isn’t that what the airlines do now?

[unixfox]

I’ve been in deer blinds bigger than that.

[Mr Rogers]

I prefer a version with a garage...this is about the same as some of their homes:

http://www.thehousedesigners.com/plan/the-charleston-carriage-house-8323/

800 sq ft for a one bedroom is fine. I’ve lived in 3 bedrooms with 1000 sq feet, but I would rather not...it was OK when young, but I prefer more room in my 50s. We’re thinking of building a 1000-1200 sq ft two bedroom on 2 acres, and then adding the garage linked above as a garage/guest house.

[Silentgypsy]

That’s how we think. Our house is much smaller than our garage which is 2,400 sq. ft. We have bigger additional storage. I don’t want to spend my life housecleaning a McMansion.

[Liberty Valance]

The Texas version ...

[ctdonath2]

I'm exploring the "tiny home" concept for the long-term goal of having my kids be outright homeowners by the time they graduate high school. Won't be big, won't be fancy, won't be prominent ... but it will be theirs at a time when income is low, possessions are few, dependents are zero, and desire for freedom is high. Get a small piece of land for cheap (tax-delinquent, abandoned, unwanted), build such a kit, move into what is owned outright - a superior path to renting, dorms, basements, mortgage, etc. where people get in the habit of owing others to live there.

[netmilsmom]

>>Not quite. The plans start from $99. The cost to build the houses looks to be around $20,000. <<

Thank for clarifying that. I was thinking that this would be a great addition to my niece’s house in Cleveland. Her kids could play in it and we would have a place to stay when we went down.