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bae
11-14-13, 5:16pm
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2013/11/a-nomad-micro-home-is-easier-to-assemble-than-furniture.html

I'd love one of these!

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Lovely thing is - this is small enough that it would fall mostly under my county's regulatory radar...

catherine
11-14-13, 7:08pm
Love it! The interior design is so clever--I love how the steps to the loft are multi-purpose--integrated with the furniture.

I definitely aspire to get something just like that, or a Tumbleweed House for the corner of my back yard. With my big family, if nothing else, it would be a great guest house. And I think it would be fine from a zoning perspective because of its small dimensions. And I could drive it up to my son's house in VT and park it in his backyard and visit him a couple of months out of the year.

Thanks for posting!

herbgeek
11-14-13, 8:40pm
Only thing I don't like is that one of the "stairs" is also the countertop where I would be preparing food.

Tussiemussies
11-14-13, 9:15pm
This is beautiful on the outside, but do agree with Herbgeek that having the stairs serve as part of a functioning kitchen won't work well. Also since the bathroom is so small, I would get the jeebies taking a shower so close to the toilet!

ApatheticNoMore
11-14-13, 9:21pm
The bed would bother me, fear of heights ....

simplelife4me
11-14-13, 10:49pm
When will the IKEA tiny house come out?

happystuff
11-15-13, 8:58am
I like it! I think solving the counter/step issue would be easy enough with a simple backstop/counter end put in place. Also, if it were my tiny house, shoes would come off at the door - should help a little. lol.

lmerullo
11-15-13, 10:53am
Love it - with one change...the bed would be up higher on a platform to allow drawers underneath.

I would select a coffee table/trunk with storage and perhaps even the sofa would instead be storage with cushions on top (like window seats often are).

Is that stainless thing to the very right a refrigerator in the kitchen- please say yes, because otherwise it looks to be a dishwasher, and I don't see a fridge.

ToomuchStuff
11-15-13, 11:48am
The image reminds me of something Jeremy Clarkson drove.:laff:

Gregg
11-15-13, 11:49am
Very cool. There are so many great ideas coming about for very small space living. It's really pretty exciting to think it could become a little more mainstream. Design wise, I like sliding patio doors in micro spaces because you don't lose floor space to door swing and they double as a huge window. Gotta' have a spot for the TV though.

JaneV2.0
11-15-13, 2:28pm
I'd like something like this for a studio.

Gardenarian
11-15-13, 3:00pm
Very cool little house, especially if you can add all the off-grid options. I wonder how many areas have building codes that would allow something like this?

This would be ideal in some kind of eco-community where there were some shared facilities (laundry is the first thing that comes to mind.) It would also make a great guest house (but the idea that ordinary people need guest houses is kind of anti-green.)

I could not live in this with another person - it might make more sense (in terms of saving resources) to have a slightly larger building that would accommodate at least two

It looks like there is not enough room to do much besides read a book or look at a screen. In fact I think it is kind of weird that they included an enormous screen in a bare bones concept plan. Apparently, a higher priority than having a table where you could sit and eat or work. (Though of course you could sit on the floor, I often do, but.)

A lot of us have hobbies/work that take up space - you'd be cramped even trying to do knitting or jigsaw puzzles or yoga in here. Where do you keep your tools, art supplies, piano, sewing machine, garden stuff? I think almost anyone buying one of these would need an additional shed/barn/outbuilding. The point that having less space means you will buy less stuff is well taken, but not all stuff is evil.

I also think the bed looks unsafe - how do you make the bed without falling over the side? The stairs don't look too safe either (older folks, dogs would have trouble.)

This would work in my climate, where you could install an outdoor shower or tub, and put in a work shed without worrying about heating it. We have lots of sun for solar power. In most areas you would want to have that additional insulation, and adding it to a panelized kit might be a major undertaking (unless they design a cold climate model.) And of course you need to bring in water, wherever you live, either from a municipality or well.

kib
11-22-13, 11:46am
Oh yummy. In my opinion this one has just about everything, and it would be so ideally structured for that life of less. Add a 3*10 outdoor "closet" along the toilet wall and you have [bicycle] storage and space for a stacked washer/dryer. Or tuck a number of them into an intentional community where you have some shared space for that sort of thing. ... ooh, aah, twenty of these and a "big house" ...

... I know what you mean about the guesthouse, Herbgeek. Our house here in Tucson has just enough unused yard space to put in a small extra building and I've been dreaming about something like this one, but in reality ... unless I get a divorce, rent out my house and start living in my back yard, I can't quite see it ... living with less as an adjunct to living with more sort of misses the point, but ooh ... aaah ....