Story about people who hate their tiny houses. http://gawker.com/a-pint-sized-night...ium=socialflow
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Story about people who hate their tiny houses. http://gawker.com/a-pint-sized-night...ium=socialflow
What do your foresee the re-done plan looking like?Quote:
Originally Posted by ctg492
that was so funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
"Long story short—puppy got bigger, too big for the house even, and I stayed the same size. Bullshit.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/five-...y-homes-2015-7
This popped up in my facebook feed today. 5 people who abandoned their tiny homes. 2 couples and 1 single man. Thought the only reason the man abandoned his was due to zoning issues.
Excellent post! Thanks for sharing. It is much more serious than the silly one I posted and conveys the message better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Float On
Really interesting Float On. I'm still a little awestruck by the people that spent $260K on 760 sq.ft. That's $342/sq.ft. That is incredibly expensive. I spent most of my working life building very expensive houses on mountain lots, which add a lot of expense, and our average cost was not that far above their cost. But we're talking custom everything in those houses, not cabin kits. It seems to be a case of people getting into a big project with no experience and no concept of how to build a team that will work on their behalf. That rarely ends well.
We need to develop housing methods that are flexible enough to change when people's lives change. Most indigenous cultures have some kind of system that scales to whatever situation the family is in at the moment. Kids are born? Add space. Parents die? Remove space. Our current construction methods aren't conducive to just building and knocking down parts of our houses, but we can get a lot more creative with flex space that can go from living area to storage to greenhouse to play room to whatever over the years. Its not hard to do, we just need to have a little imagination and get away from the cheap, cookie cutter, suburban models we've been spoon fed for the last couple generations.
Boy, these people learned some expensive lessons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Float On
Funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler
Something that I think about often, that increases my hesitancy about building a tiny house is, that there are so many livable structures already built. They may not fit the size requirements I want (tiny) or would be best for some form of commune or co-housing, but they already exist.
As someone who has always considered himself a BANANA environmentalist (Build Absolutely Nothing Around Nobody Anywhere) I had to really deal with the cognitive dissonance when I decided to save up for a tiny house (and potentially build or hire someone to build one).
I think it's interesting to note that the dissatisfied people either picked incredibly small places - 130 sq ft for two people? (I wouldn't even do that) - and/or really isolated (I couldn't handle that), or crazy expensive. I don't think they thought it all through. And it's definitely a problem with the building codes that most non-rural communities don't allow the tiny places.
Also strange to me that they classified 1000 sq ft and less as tiny. IMO 1000 is massive and 100 is too small. I'm going to stick with 200-400 square feet as the right size for me +/- a partner. Or co housing, or a van, which have different ways of measuring space.
I also agree with Jake that buying new doesn't always feel right. There are lots of cheap, small, existing places that could be fixed up with minimal expense, and possibly less environmental impact.