re: What is the board's opinions regarding tiny houses?

I understand the concept but the ones I've been in seem low quality.

I know people want to do things on the cheap, but a tiny house with crappy windows and no insulation seems like a very misguided approach.

And frick that sleeping in lofts with six inches above your head. Frick that to hell.

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And frick that sleeping in lofts with six inches above your head. Frick that to hell.

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Couldn't do that. I ain't no dog in a den. Besides the claustrophobia, I don't want any any stairs or climbing. These 200 ft^2 tiny homes I see on TV are nuts. I could probably do 600.

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I don't get how they justify spending 50k on a 150 SF house, knowing they could triple the size for the same price or less...assuming they aren't trying to be mobile

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My wife was watching a show on these "tiny houses" earlier tonight. From what I gather mobility is something these sheep who follow this stupid fad are looking for. In the episode I caught, they spent almost $70,000. Guess they were too stupid to realize you could buy one hell of nice fifth wheel for that kind of money and have over twice the room.

Honest to God, I never really knew houses of these sizes were "in," except in way out scenic places where they might be considered vacation homes or whatnot.

I certainly haven't seen anything of the like here.

My earlier camp joke aside, it does kind of bring up something that is interesting to me when I watch the house hunter type shows. I find it humorous that we, as a population, seem to require a ridiculous amount of space compared to everyone else in the world. You see a couple that's looking at an apartment abroad that sees a 2 burner stove and a half size fridge and they immediately freak out. What couple has so much cooking going on that they ever have more than 2 burners going at a time? On top of that, the same place doesn't have a 2 bedroom closet for her shoes so that's obviously a deal breaker. I know land has been cheap in the US until recently but doesn't it seem some kind of compromise between these ridiculous tiny houses and our standard McMansions seem to be a better answer?

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I'd rather live in a small house in an area with stuff to do than a McMansion in buttfrick nowhere.

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Not me. I'll take the mansion.

I had my brother build me a tiny greenhouse in my yard, used 4 pallets as the base. We tag teamed a (no comment type) it heald up they slept in it.

I know CSB I just can't mention that story round 'cher

I'm good on the 300 sq ft house. My closet is 160 sq ft by itself