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So, this new downsizing trend

The next thing we'll here is that Laurel is downsizing. Then GB and the playground will become one.
 
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I grew up on a yacht.
57 foot long, with a 14 foot beam at the widest.
My parents, my brother and myself, all living together in that space for 12 years.
It felt much, MUCH smaller when we were in the middle of the ocean, knowing that land was at least a couple of weeks away in any direction!
But..... it worked. We had a great life.
And I would do it again in a heartbeat :)
 
Bidin~Time said:
People trading in their McMansions of a few thousand square feet, for tiny houses of a few hundred square feet. Have you ever thought about doing just that? I've tried to imagine a family of five living in one of those wee structures, and i wondered how that would work out.
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I was very happy in my cardboard box...

:D

Until some asshole stole my shopping cart.
 
I doubt you'll see many Tiny Home buyers coming from a 2 Story Single Detached home.

Tiny homes are for young people who want to squat instead of owning land... trailers made to look like little houses.

My house, at about 2500 sq ft, is bigger than I need, but I like the location.

My cottage, at about 750 sq ft, is probably a bit small for full-time use, but I designed it in such a way that I can pop an addition on the back in case I decide to sell the house and get a city pied a terre.
 
Bidin~Time said:
People trading in their McMansions of a few thousand square feet, for tiny houses of a few hundred square feet. Have you ever thought about doing just that? I've tried to imagine a family of five living in one of those wee structures, and i wondered how that would work out.
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With the way that corporate america is treating the american workers, you won't have much choice in a few decades.
 
Hard_Rom said:
Tiny homes are cheaper, use less energy to operate and build. Take up far less space and usual valuable farmland, tax rates are lower, contribute to a close family. We think we are entitled to a large multi-storey house. Sign of the times. Good chance in a generation you will have your parents in the same house too. Our lifestyles we think we are entitled to are non-sustainable. The Japanese do well with the limited living space their tiny island offers a massive population. Try buy a North American sized home in England and gag at the price.

And what is our concern? Too much contact with our unruly misbehaving children.

In NA we have huge open spaces and think we can expand for ever. Toronto and my town of London eat up some of the world's most productive farmlands and asphalt it over with malls and suburbanite homes.

We (you! who have children) are not doing them any favours. By the time your grandkids are old they may be cursing your/our names for being so selfish and stupid as to not see the writing on the wall.
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You sound like Kathleen Wynne
 
I need a basement or tornado shelter under the house.
Also a bathroom on the same floor where I sleep.

I tried to downsize in my last move, and in some ways I did, but I went from a 4 room place to a 6 room place because that is what I could get that met my non space needs. I do have the smallest kitchen ever now.
 
Bidin~Time said:
Just by virtue of size...
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In another life, I spent a year as service manager for an RV dealership. It was something like being sent to a Khmer Rouge rehabilitation camp, but I survived. The interior of all the campers and motor coaches are made with pressboard. You have to get up to about $300K before real wood appears. The interior cooks out formaldehyde for months.

In the summer, every morning, it was someone's job to unlock and open every camper on the lot. With the door open, it was about 20 minutes before anyone could enter and open the windows. The atmosphere burned the eyes and it was impossible to breathe.
 
bronzeage said:
In another life, I spent a year as service manager for an RV dealership. It was something like being sent to a Khmer Rouge rehabilitation camp, but I survived. The interior of all the campers and motor coaches are made with pressboard. You have to get up to about $300K before real wood appears. The interior cooks out formaldehyde for months.

In the summer, every morning, it was someone's job to unlock and open every camper on the lot. With the door open, it was about 20 minutes before anyone could enter and open the windows. The atmosphere burned the eyes and it was impossible to breathe.
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This why I live in old well constructed places. I am allergic to Formaldehyde.
A friend of mine got double wide, paid the extra for the non outgasing materials, wood cabinets, wool carpet, the lot.
It was aired for several months before they moved in. There was something alightly off, I walked across the kitchen floor barefoot and got hives. They had used the right materials everywhere except the kitchen flooring...
 
I could only imagine downsizing to a "tiny home" if I lived alone. Once you have two or more people occupying a living space, I think it's important for each occupant to have somewhere to retreat when needed. On the other hand, I wouldn't want the headache and maintenance of a McMansion, either. Sometimes medium is just right.
 
bronzeage said:
In another life, I spent a year as service manager for an RV dealership. It was something like being sent to a Khmer Rouge rehabilitation camp, but I survived. The interior of all the campers and motor coaches are made with pressboard. You have to get up to about $300K before real wood appears. The interior cooks out formaldehyde for months.

In the summer, every morning, it was someone's job to unlock and open every camper on the lot. With the door open, it was about 20 minutes before anyone could enter and open the windows. The atmosphere burned the eyes and it was impossible to breathe.
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Okay, so a camper is out. Or would the same thing exist in the building materials used in a tiny house?
 
containers are cool, unless you want fancy stuff like water, electricity, insulation, flooring, windows...
 
There's definitely a limit for size. I would only have a house with one or two extra bedrooms than my family would need. I see all those mansions and wonder how people don't feel lonely in them. Even if I can afford a massive house one day I'd choose to spend my money another way.
 
pete said:
containers are cool, unless you want fancy stuff like water, electricity, insulation, flooring, windows...
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Duh! You add that stuff. Don't recall any containers I have ever been in look like the ones in the pics.
 
When i was kid, Dad converted a van trailer into a little office and tool trailer. I've read that containers take some reinforcement, but hell that was an internet article and we all know how reliable the net can be.

I know a couple who raised Lord i don't know how many foster kids, in addition to their own 3 in a 3 br 1 bath 1400 sq foot house. I think the most foster kids they had at one time was 4. But it worked for them.
 
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