I bet this guy is a chick magnet!
Doesn’t everyone want to live in a closet? Closets all around!
Why not just buy an RV?
I’m not sure if all of my wifes shoes could fit in that house, let alone everything else...
I could live in a small house on a large piece of land.
But only if I had a large barn/garage/workshop.
Some of us think tiny houses are really neat.
No need to belittle personal preferences.
See http://tinyhouseblog.com/ among many others.
More power to him. . .as long as he doesn’t start demanding that everyone live in a house that small.
Jay Shafer...come out of the closet.
Cute, but could you afford the rent?
. . . but we built an architect-designed passive solar house with a little over 800 s.f. heated and cooled. It had a full basement and an unheated solarium with a solar mass (huge concrete cube buried in the ground) on the south side, but the actual living space was just 800 s.f. + or -.
Nice spacious master b.r., big living room, galley kitchen, good sized bath with dressing room. Plenty of closet space on the north side (doubles as insulation).
It was perfect for a couple, plenty of room, but a bit crowded for 3, and when we had our 2nd child we had to sell. Now that our last kid is out of the house I'd happily build another, although I'd probably bump up to around 900 s.f. to get a bigger kitchen.
He is an environmentalist, and as such is deeply concerned that the world has already reached a point of “peak space”, and soon we will all run out of space.
So unless we stop using all fossil fuels, limit families to only one child by forced abortion, pay international taxes to the UN, redistribute wealth from the wealthy nations to the poorer nations, and have one world government, we will all run out of space.
As such, all living areas must be restricted to a 6’ x 2’ x 2’ box for all humans, toilets must be limited to 1 gallon cans, the only artificial light will be provided by one LED for one hour after dark, food must be restricted to 1200 calories a day with all protein coming from tofu, and all clothing must be made out of recycled paper, including shoes.
Or we’ll run out of space!!!
Will the kick about, “small to save the world” ever be applied to government?
Maybe that’s the solution - the entire Federal government has to fit into an 80 square foot building.
I want to sing.
Sometimes I fantasize about having a small studio apartment, where I can escape from accumulated stuff and other people’s messes and demands.
But small means, oh, about 250 square feet.
These tiny house people are most of them “child-free”. And “partner-free.” Sometimes you do read about a family with one or two children living in 400 square feet and doing it rather ingeniously. More power to them - that’s how our forebears lived, only with a whole lot more children than that.
Now go play outside.
$38,997 for 65 square feet!!! Get real!
Since his tiny house is on wheels, and not a permanent structure, I assume he doesn’t pay homeowner’s property taxes on it. Do property taxes work that way in California?
There is a guy in Luling, TX that builds these using mostly recycled materials. A little too small and pricey if you ask me. But if you had a small piece of property in the country, it might be doable for a weekend place.
http://www.tinytexashouses.com/index.html
If a person can make money off the idiocy of others, then let the market rule. But I think he his slogan should be "Helping Fools and Their Money Part Company since 1993."
Not much bigger than a jail cell.