Posted on 08/05/2014 10:02:25 AM PDT by C19fan
Once upon a time an American family’s home was their castle and the bigger the better, but growing concerns about meeting mortgage payments and the environmental impact of large houses has helped fuel a new movement of people who are happy to live small.
The Tiny House Movement is a growing group of people who are happy to downsize the space that they live in and enjoy simplified lives as a result.
While the average American home is around 2600 square feet, the typical small or tiny house is around 100-400 square feet.
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My daughter had a 400 SQ ft apt in San Francisco at one time. When I visited I slept on a twin size air mattress on the kitchen floor. And I didn't feel good about myself or the earth.
(rolling eyes)
In the height of the 90s, the same movement of opting out of high paying corporate jobs and becoming simple alpaca farmers (or some such).
Ask their children how that turned out.
40 years ago I was with a company that sent 70 structures to Nigeria for an African exposition that was to be attended continent wide in the 70s.
The infrastructure in Nigeria was so unprepared to execute this exposition that only a third of the buildings were built and used in the exposition as originally intended. Another third were never built and the structural and enclosure elements were lost, scavenged or wasted. The last third were used and built in areas not in the original concept. One of these was a grain storage elevator much like in your picture. It was built and some months later another government group started to load grain into it and a tragedy occurred.
Because the structure was built and then went unused, a family set up residence through a machinery access hatch. When grain was put into it early one morning, the family suffocated and died as no one knew they were inside.
I’m looking to build, one-level, about 1500 sq ft for two of us and a few dogs, and one big-@ss pole barn for chickens, sheep, rabbits, goats, a milk cow, and an attached kennel for the Coon Hounds.
In fact, I MIGHT just build a big pole barn with about 500 sq ft of ‘living space’ and forget about a house altogether.
Now THAT’S livin’, Baby! :)
Practical and beautiful to my eye! :)
That is a good way to describe them.... hipster version of a mobile home. lol
I happen to like a small house but 100 square feet is overdoing it. My dogs and I would be fine with 5 or 6 hundred square feet.
If I could get away with it I’d take half my garage in make it into a home.
More and more Americans are realizing that they will never be able to buy a real house in the New Economy.
LOVE IT!!!!
You are a hoot!!
The only real difference is with an actual mobile home you can keep the wheels, at least the axles. But I guess if living in a hut makes them happy then have it.
Do you know what those would sell for here in the heartland? From a design perspective, some of these tiny houses are really cool. But not as a sole residence.
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I have to admit that this sort of thing intrigues me. But more from a “man cave” perspective than anything else. There’s one guy in NYC who actually took a dumpster (brand new and unused one) and turned it into a house complete with an attached gas grill, “roof top” deck, etc.
Many years down the road, when the kids are out of the nest and the wife has taken off with the mailman, a small house like one of these on a small river with a dock for a 25’-28’ sailboat would be my optimal retirement pad.
very true, the common good. Wouldn’t want to be a burden or a useless eater
Yep! And, as long as you have a water well and septic system....you are GOOD!
I’m right there with ya on this idea ;)
Clothes are done, hop in kids.
Yupsters would call that a “barn conversion”, you’re just talking about a modern-style barn. Why not?
That silo must either be well insulated on the inside or it is a boiler in all spaces. It occurs to me that this silo could now be in a homeowner association and this is the owner’s way of complying with the asinine rules of the association.
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