What no one tells you about living in a "tiny house"

Living in a cardboard box sucks?

Who knew?

Imagine if someone cleaned chitlins before cooking them?

The new American dream is to work hard and get a decent job, then buy a tiny house and give the rest of your income to taxes, so poor people can afford better houses than you on their section 8 rent

Having lived in a tiny home for coming up on six years... Yes and no.

Yes, things can be overwhelming at times. A few pieces of laundry carelessly cast aside upon getting home from work make the house seem completely destroyed.

Meals are had on the couch. We don't have a table.

Our island, a stainless bar, is a repository for the stuff found in my pockets. The tray meant to hold keys and wallet, overflows with the day's detritus. A pocket knife, a watch, some headphones, a hankerchief, they remove the only clear space in the kitchen.

A toaster becomes a luxury we don't need. A blender becomes the sole appliance allowed counter space.

But there are good times.

I frequently read aloud in the bathroom while the wife bathes. We giggle at the works of twain, whitman, and Larkin.

Coffee brewing in the morning pulls me from a dead sleep. The smell wafting down the hall into the bedroom.

The 140lb dog sleeps under our insanely large platform bed. He, and it, a poor fit for our tiny home.

Surround sound and a 60 inch tv can turn our tiny living room into a submersive theatre experience. Our floor an extension of the couch.

Our front door opens onto our carport, minus the cars, it's over 1000 square feet of covered area for entertaining.

Our electric bills are laughable. They may only be 100 bucks a month, but the house is kept at a cool 63. Day in day out.

In the winter, a small electric fireplace can heat the entire place to 90 of we wish. Instead we rarely use the heater. We cuddle under a comforter. We make cocoa and roast marshmallows over the stove.

When hurricanes come, it is a non concern. I built the place on a steel frame. The floors are double 1 inch plywood tied into steel with bolts with additional 2x6 bracing. The walls are 2x6 and tied into the steel bracing as well as the floors. The roof is heavy gauge steel. Everything overbuilt to the point of being laughable.

It's peaceful.

I like being able to talk to the wife in the bedroom without raising my voice.






After six years though, it is time for a change. The new house will have 18 ft ceilings in the living room. But we are making sure to keep the closeness. An upstairs balcony will overlook the living area. Large sliding doors will separate the shop from the living area. Double tub. There are certain things we love about our tiny home. There are certain things that need to go.

I want a god damned walk in pantry.

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Why the frick would you do this? 3 pounds of onions and you didn't think it would smell up the house? Caramelizing 3 fricking pounds of onions would smell up a normal house.

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For real. Get a propane burner /grill and cook that shite outside even in a normal house

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No one warns you that everything is more concentrated in a tiny house


You don't say

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Leave it to the woman to not realize the most obvious.

Duh

Three pounds of carmelized onion?

Good Lord

Yep just as gross as I imagined. I mean...have you ever sniffed a dog kennel after the dog has been locked in there a few hours? Same thing.