Posted on 10/28/2015 7:57:49 PM PDT by grundle
While there are quite a few tempting "turn-key" tiny homes available to order right now, there's just something about a super personalized owner-built home that's extra thrilling to see. Case in point: this 160-square-foot "Tiny Hall House" ("Hall" being the owners' surname) in Massachusetts, which was built for under $30K over six months and houses three people.
Looking snugly lived-in and photoshoot-ready at the same time, the home comes with the standard tiny living accoutrements, including a lofted Queen bed, compact "couch" that doubles as a bed for the couple's son (the space is about two feet wide by eight feet long, which makes it about a foot narrower than the typical twin bed), kitchenette, and composting toilet. Even more rad are custom touches like the bookshelves hidden in the gabled entrance and the miniature bedside stands and lamps. Intrigued? The owners are answering tiny house questions and dropping wisdom over on their Tumblr site.
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In my apartment, the hall bath is right across the hall from the kitchen and in the townhouse I lived in, it was right next to the kitchen.
Then, those kids need to be taught some manners. It is not polite to be critical of clothes or houses. It could be them some day. People need to be nice to others on the way up because they just might need them on the way down.
What he said times 2.
Did I see wheels? Is it a mobile home?
Is the left selling mobile homes as the answer to all our problems?
In this respect, we're turning into Brazil.
There are plenty of people in this world who live in tiny houses who are perfectly happy...and you've no right to enforce your view of morality upon them....or put them into debt to live to your standard.
Good post, ClearCase_guy.
And that potentially rises to the level of child abuse?! This is actually the most sanctimonious, liberal-moonbat nonsense I have personally come across on Free Republic to date.
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I have been seeing much ado about “tiny houses” for the past couple of years and wonder also if there are some who use this to push us toward smaller habitations, closer quarters and packing humans into shipping crates, tiny apartments in high rises and, as you sort of suggest,to allow other species to have the rest of the world.
“Under $30,000? I know a shed building company that could build a shed for $5,000. Stick a bed, fridge and propane heater in it and put in next door to a truck stop (for showers and toilet facilities) and you are set.
Next up: The Joys of Dumpster Diving. How to Eat Free While Helping to Save the Planet.
Yeah, I was not singing or writing poetry with my brother. Mostly I was telling him I was not going to sleep in the tent after he went into town to pick up girls.
Bookmark for later reading.
“$30K?
You can buy a full sized house for that in some places.”
I built a 1750 sf 2 story house for $35,000 not long ago (material prices have remained the same or decreased since I built). I have every receipt in a thick 3 ring binder. Land not included, but not on wheels, either.
Steel roof, sheet rocked interior, tile floors, slab construction, heat pump, and very well insulated. Never have had a power bill at of above $100 in the hottest or coldest weather.
Materials are cheap, paying someone else to assemble their home is why people have a mortgage.
I remember as a kid I visited another kid who lived in a tiny house, maybe shack would be a better term. It was smaller than the one in the posted article.
I remember thinking it was sort of cool for it’s compactness, and I never thought anything about it being a poverty case.
Just outside the shack was the foundation for what would eventually be a pretty nice house that the kid’s dad was building, and it was back in the woods so the kid had plenty of space to run, hunt, and do the stuff boys used to do.
So, yeah, as a temporary solution that’s fine. For the long term, no.
That’s back when the Sears catalog really had everything. lol
I want one.
-So small you can carry it. You don't even need a vehicle!
-You relocate whenever you want and never have to worry about increasing your carbon emissions.
-Best of all your resource consumption is minimal, exerting the smallest impact upon the environment and global resources.
-Sustainability achieved!
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