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Tue 10 Jan, 2006 07:16 pm
These amuse me - seem like they would be useful in various circumstances. They do seem best for just one person, to me, but I still think the fellow has a nifty thing going.
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
Any one else interested in small houses?
Heh, this ain't what I thought it was! lol
I was poking around on the Web a few wweeks ago and ran into
"Wee Houses". Same sort fo idea to start with but these to stack and butt up against each other to build a larger place.
That one just might be too small. Two bedrooms, bath, kitchen, living area, and a really huge garage might be about right. It does seem like all they want to build these days is 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, ect. etc.
I think those little places are great.
I live in an are that is being over run with "starter castles". Starter castles are bigger than McMansions and are usually set upon a hill with at least 5 acres of land. The owner basically has a fiefdom.
I'm a big fan of beautifully designed small homes (under 2000 sq ft). I think with an energy crisis in our future, it will be the way things must go. Better a small perfect gem than a big honkin' rock.
I romanticize the minimalist life. When I retire, that's the kind of house I'd like to live in. Just as much as you need, no more, no less.
I love these, they're like gourmet trailers.
The 16 x 16 Cross Gable is a standard a few blocks over from here. Lots of them were built just after the second world war.
Light on the land too, from my pov.
Awsome, you can take a crap in your kitchen.
I've always wanted to do that....
the first thing that crossed my mind when i saw wee houses
I think they're pretty cool. Small, comfy, and easy on the environment!
Anon
My teenage daughter and I live in a 35-year old mobile. About 700 sq. ft., larger than these, but there are two of us!
200 cu.ft. of storage wouldn't hold my books.
Oh, Osso. I LOVE tiny houses! I've always wanted to buy one of those miniature cottage-style gas stations from the 1920-30s that were so popular around here, move it into my backyard, and make a writer's study out of it.
Here's one not too far from me.
We have old colonial estates around here which often have refinished carriage houses and servants out buildings. I love them. They are usually on a large estate with old mature gardens and rolling green fields.... aahhhh....
some years ago i had 5 acres in the Sange de Cristo mtns and I designed a cabin using 4 x 8 sandwich panels of plywood, rv appliances, solar electric. water catchment system and propane. Totally self-contained. the entire cabin was partitions built in my garage and trucked into the site-erected in one week-end with 2 pickup loads.
Re: Wee houses
ossobuco wrote:Any one else interested in small houses?
Oh, I
have to be, osso. I live in one!
Tiny little Victorian terrace with tiny little rooms. (Were the Victorians midgets?
)
Re: Wee houses
msolga wrote:ossobuco wrote:Any one else interested in small houses?
Oh, I
have to be, osso. I live in one!
Tiny little Victorian terrace with tiny little rooms. (Were the Victorians midgets?
)
Australian Victorians WERE a lot smaller than British one's, as they descended from tiny little people that slid in through windows and took all the silver.
..... AND all that time on the high seas on those convict ships! ... malnuriished, suffering from scurvy & sea sickness! Who'd grow big after
that?
I'd not heard of those gas station "houses", Eva... very charming.
Wish you had photos of that, Dys...
I bet your house is nifty, MsOlga.
I've often been more attracted to gate houses, etc. than manor houses themselves...
The house my ex and I had in Venice was something like 825 square feet, not exactly tiny, but tiny by standard new house sizes now. We did have a garage, handy for a lot of storage.
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