Tiny Homes/Cabins Building Info.

[rvijay]

Here is a cabin built for $1400 !!!
http://www.jshow.com/y2k/listings.html

Another site with 40 step by step pictures of building a tiny home:
http://tinyhouses.net/Albers%20Bunk/albersbunkindex.html

Also, the following related sites are good:

http://www.cadence90.com/lookingaround/tiny_houses.html

Jay Shafers First Tiny Home:
http://www.resourcesforlife.com/groups/simpleliving/jayshafer/dmr20001210.htm

More Good Related Links:
http://countryplans.com/gallery.html

http://www.resourcesforlife.com/groups/smallhousesociety/resources.htm

http://www.konzak.com/prohousing/ownerb.html

http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/small.htm

Vijay :juggle: :gun: :pibo:

[Ludi]

Wooo! I love tiny homes! I wish my house was much smaller!

[Jinga]

Those are interesting links :) ... Some of them are not really any more than a storage shack. Do they all have running water and electricity? I'd like a smaller, efficient home, but those are a little too little for me :p

[rvijay]

Those are interesting links :) ... Some of them are not really any more than a storage shack. Do they all have running water and electricity? I'd like a smaller, efficient home, but those are a little too little for me :p

When building on your own, it is up to you to get all the connections/plumbing etc., However, if you decide to buy a tiny home then it depends on what the seller is offering. There seem to be different deals out there.

[das_nut]

I knew a guy who lived in a shack that was less then 15' x 12'. It had a bed, a fuel-oil stove, a kitchen counter with sink (no running water), a couch and a table.

While I wouldn't want to live there full time, it was a nice vacation cabin. Perhaps I just bought into cultural mythology, but there is something soothing about being away from it all, to the point of playing cards by a gas light.

But I do love hot showers, central heat/air, and electricity. :) I wouldn't want to live in a place without any of that. I want a small house, not a tiny house.

[das_nut]

I'm digging through more of the site, and I have to admit, for a family with no children, the Victorian looks rather nice. Might work for one or two children, if a few slight changes were made.

http://www.countryplans.com/victoria.html

[rvijay]

I knew a guy who lived in a shack that was less then 15' x 12'. It had a bed, a fuel-oil stove, a kitchen counter with sink (no running water), a couch and a table.

While I wouldn't want to live there full time, it was a nice vacation cabin. Perhaps I just bought into cultural mythology, but there is something soothing about being away from it all, to the point of playing cards by a gas light.

But I do love hot showers, central heat/air, and electricity. :) I wouldn't want to live in a place without any of that. I want a small house, not a tiny house.


Tiny homes need far lesser energy/equipment for heating/airconditioning compared to larger homes. Also, once a person gets really frugal and cuts down on a lot of things that they keep but don't use (this process is called declutter) etc., then they can manage to live on far little things and a tiny home will be very good then.

[Walter]

I really love small homes too.

[rvijay]

For those with limited funds, they can start and have a tiny home. Later on down the road, should they get more funds, then can expand the tiny home down the road. So, one needn't feel constrained.

[das_nut]

Tiny homes need far lesser energy/equipment for heating/airconditioning compared to larger homes. Also, once a person gets really frugal and cuts down on a lot of things that they keep but don't use (this process is called declutter) etc., then they can manage to live on far little things and a tiny home will be very good then.

I know, I know. When I get down to it, my wife and I are probably habitually using about 200-300 sq ft of our 600 sq ft apartment.

Of course, I have the front room of my apartment shut off until the weather gets cooler. No sense air conditioning a room I'm using for storage now.

[isowish]

A couple (in their fifties or sixties) that are friends with my dad live in a tiny house they built themselves. No running water (except, wait for it, their own personal spring!), and gas lights. It is one room seperated along the middle by a bench and their chimney - it has a kitchen area with a gas oven and sink, and the rest of it is bookshelves, a wood-burning stove, some chairs and a futon. In the roof is a storage area. It's beautiful, but I'm too used to the luxuries of modern life to live there. I love tiny houses, though.

[Coney]

Wow, those little houses are great! I'm not sure how I would adjust from NYC to a small place in the woods. I suppose I could find a piece of land in an small town, but I am used to a 1br apartment as it is. These seem very spacious!