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 that bottom photo it looks like a caboose.
Looks like it has everything necessary to me. I prefer a bigger place, but people really do not need much.
For most of history, people lived in much smaller places than that, and without all the conveniences of running water and electricity.
They are preparing the Millennials for serfdom.
I notice that said “HOUSE” has four wheels.
“Looks like something you would put on he bed of your pickup truck for the weekend.”
It is a trailer. Look at the side and you can see the skirts over the tires.
I think that is what someone did, more or less. I see the wheels.
Well to keep DPS away from raising their child in a small house there is always secion 8 or public housing in the ghetto of some shithole city with a huge muder rate.... but then that is just peachy keen....
I considered my 750sqft condo to be a little house until I saw the Tiny house shows.
Bet this family drives a Prius?
The real “child abuse” will come from his school mates when they find out where he lives.
I am sure America’s pioneers would have been tickled to have such an abode.
“[Is this child abuse?]”
Not if you have the kid go feed the dog, chickens, and weed the garden when you wanna make love.
Most of the ancestors of us all (of the working class) had homes this small or smaller. So no, its not abuse, just the historical norm. Only us late moderns (beginning in the 20th century, in developed countries) have higher standards.
I lived in a shed one summer.
It was a big shed. We had indoor plumbing. We cooked outdoors in a screened porch.
But it was a shed. It’s small. Two of us lived there. By the end of the summer I never wanted to see him again. And I was related to him.
No thanks.
$30,000 for a freakin shed?
Don’t demean actual child abuse by silly concerns like this
Looks like something you would put on he bed of your pickup truck for the weekend.”
My thoughts exactly. And if you are including my daughter-in-law as one of the three, it had better be a very, very short weekend.
When my kids were small we had a pick-up to haul the boat around with a shell on the bed so we could haul all our crap around. Worked fine for the four of us as we slept and lived outside. Don’t think I could do that again though. Too spoiled by creature comforts but it was great for the kids.
You can pay $1M for some San Francisco 750sqft condos.
They may have had to do that to meet local code: A lot of jurisdictions won't allow 'tiny houses' to be built on a permanent foundation, so people get around that by building on a trailer.
I don't know if that is the case in this particular instance, but I do know that it is like that in quite a few municipalities and counties, across the nation.
Or maybe they don't own the land that it is on, and want to be able to move it.
whats up with these stories over the last few years pushing these stupid tiny houses...families will tear each other apart in those mouse traps
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