NEED TO KNOW | Living large: A look inside the tiny house movement | PBS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl58kpKLsFk#ws)
Love it. I have been collecting a lot of resources to build these. Maybe this year!
Those are slick. Go for it Jack.
I live in a 20x20 home with a half loft for sleeping. (approx 500 sf total) It's more than plenty of room and easy to heat in winter. And best yet, I built it myself for cheap and it's paid for.
IMO, A home is a place for sleep and for shelter from bad weather. Other than that, it's nice to be outside. :)
Quote from: littlehawk on March 17, 2011, 09:51 PM NHFT
Those are slick. Go for it Jack.
I live in a 20x20 home with a half loft for sleeping. (approx 500 sf total) It's more than plenty of room and easy to heat in winter. And best yet, I built it myself for cheap and it's paid for.
IMO, A home is a place for sleep and for shelter from bad weather. Other than that, it's nice to be outside. :)
All of this is gold. I enjoy being outside in the winter :)
+ Keep the wheels on... ;D
Yeah we all enjoy it when your out side to fluff. ;D
Quote from: John on March 17, 2011, 11:07 PM NHFT
+ Keep the wheels on... ;D
Yeah, you never know when you'll need to roll on, eh?
cool
Quote from: jaqeboy on March 17, 2011, 11:51 PM NHFT
Quote from: John on March 17, 2011, 11:07 PM NHFT
+ Keep the wheels on... ;D
Yeah, you never know when you'll need to roll on, eh?
And, you can tell the taxman to keep on a rollin' to. :)
One possible moving strategy we've always kept in mind, especially since we'd like to have a little land, is to build a barn, then park our travel trailer inside.
We could have outside, semi-inside, and really inside, the latter being warm bed space in the trailer.
Theres an old guy who has an old shack on wheels and he pulls it with two horses. Every now and then he makes the news when some idiot pig cites him a ticket.
The two bedroom apartment I'm in now is far more space than I need, even with two kids. Oh, it's easy to "fill it up", but I don't need it.
And that's not even using the fold-out couch for a bed. Do that and the only use of two bedrooms is for the closets.
Geee... the NPR report forgot mention how you don't have to put up bull shit government construction codes... well, unless you build the trailer it sits on too.
aha
There have been a few bull sessions in Free Grafton about trying to put together a Tiny house this summer. It's a very interesting subject. The portable vs fixed Tiny House is an important consideration.
I'm curious if a person were towing a Tiny House and they were pulled over what the probable cause threshhold for a search of the Tiny House would be, if the "owner" of the Tiny House was not the same party as the person doing the towing. Anybody?
I'd go with a trailer-framed house myself, but it does limit your width to 8-1/2 feet for towing without a wide load permit. Don't know about the police search issue though.
I've been developing a source for welding up the trailer frames. Tumbleweed has a link to a bunch of different trailer manufacturers: http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/materials/trailers/ (http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/materials/trailers/)
I built this one:
http://s859.photobucket.com/albums/ab155/thedogajax/?albumview=slideshow (http://s859.photobucket.com/albums/ab155/thedogajax/?albumview=slideshow)
Its based on Jay Schafers XS house. If anyone has questions....
The 8.5' wide units (probly less than 18' long) can be towed by an F-150 sized pickup, whereas houses wider would need permits to tow on the road and anything much larger would have to be towed by a larger truck, so that size appeals to me for portability - could be moved with your own vehicle. You can hire someone to move a larger unit, but there's that extra cost and hassle then.
Quote from: jaqeboy on April 05, 2011, 09:17 AM NHFT
I'd go with a trailer-framed house myself, but it does limit your width to 8-1/2 feet for towing without a wide load permit. Don't know about the police search issue though.
I've been developing a source for welding up the trailer frames. Tumbleweed has a link to a bunch of different trailer manufacturers: http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/materials/trailers/ (http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/materials/trailers/)
Quote from: GomerPile on April 05, 2011, 09:39 AM NHFT
I built this one:
http://s859.photobucket.com/albums/ab155/thedogajax/?albumview=slideshow (http://s859.photobucket.com/albums/ab155/thedogajax/?albumview=slideshow)
Its based on Jay Schafers XS house. If anyone has questions....
very cozy house
i am imagining people on HGTV saying the kitchen is a little small ;)
I don't know how we're ever going to square up the tiny house epidemic with the obesity epidemic
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on May 18, 2011, 08:34 PM NHFT
I don't know how we're ever going to square up the tiny house epidemic with the obesity epidemic
I 'll just wear the house.
that house makes you look slimmer
Thank you, I got it on sale. ;D
When Pat sits around the house, he sits around the house!
i was thinking
with a tiny house it makes it easier to shovel snow off the roof
and i bet your driveway would be tiny too
and maybe a tiny garage
only need a tiny shovel