BS: Tiny Houses

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: gnu
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 01:17 PM

A bit off topic.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 12:03 PM

As they say, the little house is for " a simple life of reflection and conversation."

I guess it would work if all you want to do is sit around and talk. I'd lose my mind. I want to make things and play music and have nice things in my home.

The rock collection, for example.

Subject: Camp and the Coop
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 10:25 AM

Some folks have taken the tiny house approach to a big house, making one roomsized cabin at a time and then roofing them all over into a compound of whatever proportions they want.

Our family-forebears had/have a camp like that which began as a winter-included total living space the size of a small bathroom in today's houseplanning.... A g-?-uncle was sent there for TB, went there and logged the uprights in late Fall, covered them with storebought lumber for a coupla bucks (1800's) in time for winter, and lived there for years-- even after a bear he shot didn't expire but mauled him... That original cabin now houses the bathroom. The second one built, adjoining, is now the kitchen. As the family grew over time, additional cabins were built stand-alone and then roofing was extended to make a series of snug "dog-porches" (breezeways) connecting them all. And there are other "cabins" in that area just like it but, of course, each one is unique.

The unifying design feature is that each cabin is NOT added onto, like we would "bump out" a house nowadays for an addition. Build a second cabin then connect them.

THere are a lot of long-empty motels in this area that look to have been made the same or were about to when they went outta business. Wheneer I poass one of those series-of-room-cabins now, I want to move them together, roof them over, and move in. Except I know that they're rotten in the foundations.

In my coffeetable book, one example they show is elaborate but tiny chalet-style cabins (Catskills???) originally built for summer occupancy. The foundations were built on runners that allowed them to be moved as winter ground-heaving or changing resort layout dictated. They'd hitch them to draft horses and just slide them where wanted them.

A chicken coop next door we used for awhile was built that way-- till a tenant with gasoline thought it oughtta be gone. He never knew he couldda just slid it over into our yard-- the landlord no doubt would have been happy to bring the tractor over to do it.... but we came home one day to find the idjit tenant had already half-burnt it. Nice coop, too-- we'd raised rabbits in it. People in this area live in places like that, too, still.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: GUEST,lively
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 06:42 AM

Of course the more 'popular' option is to live in a bedsit.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: gnu
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 05:59 AM

$173k

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 02:56 AM

Tumbleweed Houses

mg, I'd love to see a photo of your house, if you ever feel like putting one on here..It sounds lovely.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: open mike
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 01:43 AM

i was reading this today..http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

Some states allow buildings less than 120 sq. feet (10 X 12)
without having to go thru the permit process..

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 12:52 AM

I am interested as to where in that living-room their "guests are received", as stated in the article. Even allowing for the floor as a seating place, there is not much room, is there?

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 11:22 PM

Actually, I found a whole pile of web pages on houses made from standard shipping containers.

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 11:18 PM

Here at home we have a really neat coffeetable book on this topic. Of course it's a tiny book, too.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 09:12 PM

I live in a little cabinish place by ocean about 110 or 120 square feet,but sloped in..shaped like windmill. There is an upper floor..two actually..one a real attic...that I don't use except for storage..if my sister needs to stay here she can since she has lost her job...two will be tight but doable. I think my ancestors could have fit 30 people into it and would have been delighted with the plumbing. It is fine for one person, maybe two. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Tiny Houses
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 06:57 AM

amazing - thanks for posting it here

Subject: BS: Tiny Houses
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 03:32 AM

Just found this over on a friend's page in Facebook...

What a great idea!
Tiny Houses