Posted on 09/05/2022 9:18:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One of the best parts of the growing tiny house trend is that designers in all parts of the world are encouraged to find the most sustainable building solutions, without sacrificing modern comfort. The Freeland House is a great example of that. The Freeland House is really tiny, but an example of sustainability and beautiful design
There are a few things that make the times we’re living in particularly interesting. One of them is the possibility of having a home shipped to you, no matter where you live. The concept of prefab (prefabricated) homes isn’t new, but their current availability and popularity are unprecedented. For example, you could have this tiny home shipped all the way from a small workshop in Catalonia.
At only 9.3 square feet (8 square meters) it’s indeed tiny, but this makes it even easier to transport using a trailer or a truck, with or without a crane. The team at Serena.House implemented a lot of sustainable solutions, including the use of natural materials.
This home’s walls can breathe, so that the air humidity can be regulated naturally, while the ecological insulation is made of cotton, wood, and hemp fibers, and the paint used both on the outside and the inside is also ecological.
The furniture is made of plywood, and the bathroom features natural stone panels. Most of the home’s additional elements, such as windows and the countertops, come from nearby suppliers, which is not only better for the environment, but also help support the local artisans.
But the Freeland is also a smart house, equipped with advanced energy and water-level monitoring systems. The oven, stove, and hot water run on gas, and solar panels can also be installed. A sustainable, tranquil haven, Freeland also manages to pack all the basic amenities in a minimalistic but very effective layout - every inch in this micro-house is used wisely.
Blending a sustainable structure with high-end appliances, the Freeland is truly a minimalistic gem. For details regarding its price, you can contact Serena.House.
Lol, or ice shanties.
Man, that was a brain fart.
I had simply mapped feet to meters, then called it squared without the work.
All I needed to do was take the 9 square feet and square root it, getting 2.83 meters to a side. Using a meters to feet conversion, it comes to 9.28 feet for a side of the square (wall).
I have to confess to bad thinking, likely from sleepiness.
A square 8 m^2 building has a wall length of ~9.3 ft, which is what I think they meant to say.
The elite’s means to make people want less. They live in mansions, we should live in itty-bitty apartments.
The food wagons down at our harbor are more livable than this.
My son’s first apartment was bigger than this. It was four rooms: kitchen, LV, Bd Rm, Bath. The largest room was 12 x 12. Maybe 350 sq feet total. It was in a 100 year old house. It had off street parking.
The reason he loved it was he was about 1000 feet to the Atlantic Ocean in Rye, NH.
A tear down in the neighborhood was $1M+ for a fixer upper. With several houses exceeding $4M on the beach.
The house he lived in was divided up into 6 apts. It was the eyesore of the neighborhood. The owner had inherited it from his father. Who had inherited it form his father. Who bought it in 1920. He was a lazy piece of crap who was too cheap to paint his house. All his neighbors were pissed about his lack of maintenance on the house.
Exactly, there are ice houses in MN that are bigger than this.
It’s a BOX on trailer. Just designed to knock out in numbers and sell for a profit. I don’t see any real innovation here, nor do I see any sense of individuality/customization.
I used to look at Tiny Houses web sites from all over and the variations and uniqueness of some of them was amazing. This one has no outside porch/leisure options, no ‘upper deck’ or roof use, etc.
Frankly, it looks like what a leftist FEMA would produce and dole out - the only difference is this one has wheels. Bottom line, it reeks of conformity to me.....
Negative. 9 Square meters is 100.104 square feet.
It’s certainly not for everyone, but there are some people who might like to live that way. I couldn’t, but I’m fascinated by some of the ‘tiny houses’ and how people live in them. Of course, they aren’t like this - they are larger, have showers and usually composting toilets.
We have a Freeper named ‘Chuckster’ who lives on a 27-foot sailboat with his wife. They seem very satisfied living that way. Again, I couldn’t, but it’s intriguing nonetheless.
Change is here to stay. At the turn of the 19th/20th century most Americans lived on farms and/or worked in agriculture. Big families were an advantage; a necessity even. My Grandmother had 13 children. They needed a big house...until the kids were grown and gone. The kids grew up and went to war, then on to work in factories. They never went back to the farm. Then the big house was just a burden.
I know that PR and I are more than just a little bit eccentric in our lifestyle choices. Having said that, for us a big house would be an ostentatious waste of resources and far less fun. I did it the conventional way for forty years. It doesn't work for me.
After more than thirty years living aboard Lealea, we decided to sell the forty acres on which we had planned to build the "Dream house" and hobby farm. Turns out we are living our dream now.
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