Impressive Tiny House [160 sf] Built for Under $30K Fits Family of 3 [Is this child abuse?]

yahoo.com ^ | October 28, 2015 | Jenny Xie

[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.

[goldstategop]

Its the original old-fashioned tiny house.

And you’re not tied down to living in a set location.

[foundedonpurpose]

Better than ever! Thank you!

I am a little harsher with leftists (collectivists) however. To many on FR lately.

Am about to buy a home on 5 acres with cash. Praise GOD!!!

[miele man]

Durn! Getting up to go to the bathroom one or more times during the night and negotiating that ladder is not for the faint-hearted and especially if one is really sleepy.

[Slyfox]

1976

[marktwain]

I bought one for $500, 20 years ago!

[Dark Knight]

Perfect for the one child family.

DK

[hoagy62]

There’s a company in Seattle that does just that...takes shipping containers and makes stylish (and fairly affordable) houses out of them.

[GOPJ]

It’s liberal elites re-creating the ‘charm’ of living in a trailer... without any awareness that that’s what they’re doing.

[Noumenon]

There's another downside to these small ltrailer homes...

[Jagdgewehr]

[Is this child abuse?]

I swear, Free Republic is getting as asinine as DU anymore.

[TXnMA]

Circa 1953, when the Savannah River Project (Nuke plant) was being built near Aiken SC, a "trailer city" of several hundred near-identical 35' X 8' trailer houses were made available for renting. Everyone from laborers to executives lived in essentially identical houses.

As in this "tiny" house, the couch was my bed -- and then, the "dining table" folded down from the wall, and my bed/couch became the bench seat for one side of the table.

I palled around with a family who had two girls. (No telling how many games of Monopoly I played with those two girls that Summer...) And there were even larger families living in the same size trailers.

We all knew it was only temporary, and we all knew we had nice houses and belongings back wherever we came from, so we managed to get along quite well in those small spaces. (My family were avid campers, so we probably liked it better than other families did...)

Not so, now, with all our "stuff". Heck, just our books would fill two of those trailers -- at least! '-)

[al baby]

Anyone one been to the Nixon library and see the house He grew up in ?

[sparklite2]

Yes, I’ve seen some shocking stuff here lately. If we’re going to be another DU, I hope the forum software takes some cues from them. This 1995 coding is long in the tooth.

[Domandred]

Agenda 21 housing comes to mind here...

[Domandred]

Agenda 21 housing comes to mind here...

[TYVets]

On another issue, what does this say about the 0bama economy?

The house of the future for a two pay check, middle income family

[Gen-X-Dad]

So, I watched a tiny house marathon over last X-Mas trying to figure out what was the big deal ...

Pros

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Get rid of your cluttered stuff (you have no choice, kind of like having stomach surgery to lose weight)
Reduce your expenses because you own the house
You are saving mother earth (yes, a large number of the people doing this believe in this point)

Cons

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You are living in a glorified tree house on wheels
They cost more than a nicer/larger RV/trailer
People cramming families into them have zero privacy (goodbye sex life)
Most of the owners park the house on a friend or relatives property (ultimate guest that never leave)
Most of the owners have no clue how to drive a trailer or have a vehicle that can be used to move the home (not really mobile)
The shows never revisit them six-months to a year in to see how it is really working out
The kids are essentially along for the ride and try to make the most of it, but you can see many of them are not happy

For whatever strange reason, broke people are going this route to try to get a handle on their life so at least they are attempting to get things right. It certainly seems like a fad and specifically tied to high cost of living areas.

[Gen-X-Dad]

So, I watched a tiny house marathon over last X-Mas trying to figure out what was the big deal ...

Pros

---

Get rid of your cluttered stuff (you have no choice, kind of like having stomach surgery to lose weight)
Reduce your expenses because you own the house
You are saving mother earth (yes, a large number of the people doing this believe in this point)

Cons

---

You are living in a glorified tree house on wheels
They cost more than a nicer/larger RV/trailer
People cramming families into them have zero privacy (goodbye sex life)
Most of the owners park the house on a friend or relatives property (ultimate guest that never leave)
Most of the owners have no clue how to drive a trailer or have a vehicle that can be used to move the home (not really mobile)
The shows never revisit them six-months to a year in to see how it is really working out
The kids are essentially along for the ride and try to make the most of it, but you can see many of them are not happy

For whatever strange reason, broke people are going this route to try to get a handle on their life so at least they are attempting to get things right. It certainly seems like a fad and specifically tied to high cost of living areas.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Same thing I wondered.

I think the left is preparing us for the push to make all of us live this way....to save Mother Earth.

[Gen-X-Dad]

Double post, thanks to Google security warning (sigh)