are tiny houses really a thing?

[bankside]

^ This Guardian article comes to mind.

Here again pampered rich folk temporarily playing around with a lifestyle that is actually too inconvenient to be practical.

Ahh this saved me some typing. Hair shirts. Conspicuous non-consumption. Falderall.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Say, Karen, now that you mention it, those tiny houses look suspiciously like certain not-too-big houses they used to have on plantations in the Caribbean...

If I were a person of color, I´d run like a burning freebasing Richard Pryor when it was suggested I live there.

Fuck me. Like. Yesterday.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Ahh this saved me some typing. Hair shirts. Conspicuous non-consumption. Falderall.

 

[nycguydowntown]

know a few people who built them upstate NY---a 20 something girl and her bf built it---it was what they could afford---it was on the small house reality show which I never saw

 

[peeonme]

I have some pictures of the trailer that my parents brought me home to from the hospital when I was born. It was 21 feet long. My dad use to pull it with his Packard, as a construction worker he followed the work. Then we moved up to an 8x32 foot 'mobile home' it's the earliest place that I can remember living in. In about 1959 dad bought a brand new 10x50, 500 sq. feet for four of us. I never had any clue that we were 'cramped', to me it was home.

I retired in to a mobile home, a used one that cost $1800.,
Last year I traded it in for a new brand new 'manufactured' home
It has about 750 sq. ft. The picture is when it was first brought in before it was set up with skirting. It's very efficient for heat and a/c and ran me 19900. They gave me $6000. trade on my old place.
To be honest, I wouldn't want to go any smaller than what I have now. The tiny houses might work for young people, but I don't want to climb a ladder to go to bed in a loft.

 

[Rickrock]

I guess that there are some people who go with a tiny home, but I don't think that there are many who like them. In many places city codes would prohibit them.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

A tiny house is not the same thing as a trailer. And yes, I know a number of people who purposefully live in something much smaller than what they could afford. While others cling on to old villas they no longer can. A well-preserved small terraced house in a gentrified neighbourhood is much more inviting to me than a big house in disrepair in a 1960s suburb. Is it only me?

 

[TickTockMan]

Here they are called "Zoey Houses". My mother loved the idea of them before she passed away.


For me I like the idea of them, but I need space. I am in an 850 sq ft apartment and it is a great fit for me.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

A tiny house is not the same thing as a trailer. And yes, I know a number of people who purposefully live in something much smaller than what they could afford. While others cling on to old villas they no longer can. A well-preserved small terraced house in a gentrified neighbourhood is much more inviting to me than a big house in disrepair in a 1960s suburb. Is it only me?

No, a trailer is much more practical when compared to a tiny house. For one, no ladder up to the 'bedroom'.

 

[rareboy]

I can't see them working out well for us. Our lives seem to weigh too much now.

But for many of us, our last years will be spent in a single room with a shared dining and living area, which, I suppose is about the same thing.

 

[Pierresro]

Tiny houses don't solve any economic housing problem. They are toys for people who can already afford to live in ordinary housing.

in most cases they are made for the poor the wealthy do not need them DUHHHHH

 

[peeonme]

A couple of vids, pros and cons

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

in most cases they are made for the poor the wealthy do not need them DUHHHHH

Poor people don't live in tiny houses, they live in small apartments as the latter are much cheaper to build.

 

[sixthson]

They are suitable for a child's playhouse, not for adults.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

They are suitable for a child's playhouse, not for adults.

are they any more or less practical than occupying more space than necessary, excess for its own sake?

 

[peeonme]

are they any more or less practical than occupying more space than necessary, excess for its own sake?

I think that excess space and living in a play house are just 2 extremes of making a statement.

 

[sixthson]

Fuck me. Like. Yesterday.

Once you started twerking to seduce Harke, your ass would knock the walls of your tiny house down.

 

[peeonme]

If you use a loft for a bedroom, be sure to install a ceiling fan.

 

[gsdx]

^ One of those industrial fans.

 

[72-Jay]

I wouldn't mind building myself one. Not on wheels ofcourse, permanently mounted to a foundation...
Oh and not to live in, just as a little mountain cabin for weekend getaways.