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25 August 2005

Tiny Houses Could you live in 70 square feet?

Maybe a housetruck is more your speed.
Awesome. Totally charming. So frustrating that there aren't more interior shots in the first link, though. Vlada's House and Wee Hoose have some interior shots.
posted by iconomy 25 August | 15:32
These are amazing.
posted by Capn 25 August | 15:34
I need to go back to school and get my degree in Truckology.
posted by selfnoise 25 August | 15:36
Very cool. Thanks for the link.
posted by omiewise 25 August | 15:44
The base unit for the City of Tiny Lights.
posted by PinkStainlessTail 25 August | 15:46
i totally want one of the 12 x 16 CROSS GABLE ones to be installed on a rooftop here, as my own private penthouse house.
posted by amberglow 25 August | 16:11
I want it!
posted by Specklet 25 August | 16:59
Love this, thanks LeeJay!
posted by Frisbee Girl 25 August | 17:16
This is awesome. I don't think I'd be comfortable in anything less than the 8' x 10', but I could definitely live in that.
posted by cali 25 August | 17:27
Geeez, a lot of these homes make the RV I live in look positively huge (330 square feet).
posted by deborah 25 August | 17:41
There's a motel in Aurora on Route 30 that has cabins similar to this, except they're a bit bigger and I assume they have bathrooms.
posted by sisterhavana 25 August | 17:46
I've pretty much always lived in small spaces since I've been on my own... but some of these would be hard to take. I can look at them and say "yeah!", but the truth is, you can't have books, or board games, or keep art supplies or tools. I don't mind the idea of having minimal kitchen stuff, minimal number of clothes, shoes, cosmetics, etc. But some of the other stuff I would have to dump bugs me.

However, when I look around... I still sort of say "hell, yeah... I could dump a ton of junk" (and I live in less than 1,000 square feet). But the books! And the tools! Really, I love the small... but I guess not.
posted by taz 25 August | 19:16
Actually... You know what? I've always dreamed of living on a houseboat. I bet I could accommodate whatever I had to strip and dump in order to live on a houseboat. I'm crazymad for boats and water... So I guess it all has to do with one's own personal eccentricities,
posted by taz 25 August | 19:33
I like this guy's work.
posted by dobbs 25 August | 19:44
Maybe if I followed the second link I wouldn't look so stupid.
posted by dobbs 25 August | 19:52
*shudder* Oh...but no. I mean, they're adorable, and I love looking at them...but I'm not even sure I could go in one for very long without getting the heebie jeebies. I once lived in a space not much larger, but since then, I seem to have developed both claustrophobia (and oddly enough, intermittent agoraphobia). I'll take a huge, high ceiling room with lots of windows, please. :) A sunlit warehouse works for me. Seriously, I can't stay in my computer room for really long stretches, and it's close to twice the size of some of these adorable houses. (15x12, thereabouts) I can't breathe, thinking about sleeping that close to a ceiling or a wall. Yeeek!
posted by PsychoKitty 25 August | 21:52
Absolutely. Sign me up.
posted by puddinghead 25 August | 23:18
Woof, Woof, Grrr, Hai, Kerr-pow! || What if they mated?

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