Do you live in a tiny house?

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To me, the allure would be the simplicity of it. I find the world to be overwhelming and confusing, and so I try to keep my lifestyle as minimalistic as possible.

(And for that reason I prefer a 'tiny studio apartment' - because it's less responsibility!)

When I was 50 I dropped out. I had been running my own small business for 15 years, and was totally burnt out. I decided to travel for a while, and took most of my stuff to a city dump and tossed it. A friend suggested that I go first to Jamaica. So I booked a flight to Jamaica. But the flight was delayed for two days. During that time I met this guy who lived in Jamaica, and we started playing backgammon (I brought my board in my duffle bag). Im pretty good at backgammon. Anyway, he brought me to his house that was right on the beach in a fishing town, and quickly found me a little house to rent. A one room house, right on the beach, $300 a month. The room was maybe 8' x 14'. I lived there for 15 years. This isn't THE house I lived in, but very similar.

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The benefit to a tiny house would be that there could be more space between you and your neighbors. You would not be sharing walls with your neighbors. Which is what I hate most about apartment living.

I would really like to live in a small one bedroom house, or even a studio cottage, as long as I could have a yard and space between me and my neighbors, but a tiny house is just ridicules. It's like your bathroom, kitchen and bedroom all combined. Not good.

Thats a small house, not a tiny house.

This is a tiny house.

I like little cubbyholes to be in.
In lab, I found a new place to sit that is not my office.
It is a cubicle where there is a big equipment setup to the left and right in one of those big desks with 90 degree corner and a computer in the middle.
I have to raise and lower the chair to get in and out of the small space in the middle, but it is wonderful to sit there, so calming surrounded by stuff in small space.
There also black curtains that go all the wall around this cubicle to block off outside.

I live in a small house which has two floors of 301,389 sq meter each.
Downstairs is one room with a separated entrance and there is the kitchen-block and a table and two chairs that I do not use but my cats are sleeping on it and a corner with a sofa and the TV and small table where I eat sitting on the floor and a sideboard.
Upstairs there is a bathroom with a bath tub and toilet and a sink and then and a very small cupboard and a bedroom and I have my bed there, a cabinet and a desk with my laptop on it and a chair and a wodden paravent to separate sleeping-area from PC-area.
It is a rear house separated by a garden from a front house, which is much bigger.
I have enough space for me and my three cats (they also go in the garden and I also do).
Though I would like to have two more rooms to be able to perform two more very to me special interests of mine (I cannot mix house-spaces for different usage).
But I love this little house.
I am confused about the uses of the words sideboard, cabinet, cupboard, furniture to put things in in different sizes and applications, but I do not know which translation fits.

I couldn't do it. I live in a ~1000 square foot house with 6 cats. No way could I live with them in a tiny house.

What I've noticed about most tiny houses, is the "bedroom" is up on a loft. Which is fine as long as you are physically able to climb a ladder. But if you are ever too sick to get up and down, have an injury, broken leg, etc. you're in for a lot of trouble. I wonder if the people who build these things expect to just stay healthy forever.

Not to mention that they're not very private either. Imagine having to share a house like that with your kids.

It is easier to buy and maintain, and lighter on the earth. There's just less stuff to deal with. It can be easier to focus. The downsides can be having to finish one thing before starting another more often, and being dependent on a quasi-legal status most places.

My house is 750'sq, and I am just finishing putting a new steel roof on it. I'm glad it was no bigger, and I paid dearly in time for having "character" in my abode. Half of the house is workshop, and I could easily live in a quarter of it. I don't feel ready to give up the workshop, but I don't think I'd miss most of the other books and stuff I've accumulated.

I have a full camper in my sub-compact car in which I could spend days, emerging ready for a job interview. It is comfy enough for most activities, just requiring cramped changes between them. I was considerably inspired by a brief visit aboard a 19' sailboat on her way around the world, but it took me years to work out how to arrange everything in the car space.

I'm thinking of building myself a place off-grid for the quiet and security. I might start with a polyethylene greenhouse to provide a pleasant season-extender, and then use a leaky old camper or light new construction for the living quarters. I wouldn't mind waiting for nice days for the surrounding workshop to be cozy.

tiny houses on tiny plots of land are a lot cheaper to buy, and pay taxes on. less to heat, less to cool. less room to accumulate money-sucking possessions. so they save money all the way around. in the south puget sound region, there is a tiny house movement in play to reduce homelessness caused by insufficient fundage of low-income people. i live in an 800 sq/ft. tin can out in the woods, i pay about $400/year property tax. average warm weather electrical bill is about $40-50/month. in the winters it can approach $150/month. poorly insulated, if the insulation were up to snuff i could cut that in half. anyways, i'm on a little 1/3 acre sliver of land between a swamp and another sliver of land belonging to somebody who lives in AZ and uses this as her summer house. i have one spare bedroom to store my accumulated junque in, and what doesn't fit in there surrounds my bed in the master bedroom.