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http://www.tinyhousedesign.com/2009/...d-transformed/

I ran across this.

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Thought this was going to be a thread about tiny fans!


Now that would have been neat!

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I'm building a 688 square foot house for my family of six right now. I've read absolutely everything I can get my hands on regarding the tiny house movement. Unfortunately, the entire movement seems geared toward singles and couples. I've found nothing on accomodating children in a small house.

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That's why God gave parents the ability to say, "It's such a nice day outside today, go out and play." ... (And while they do you and the Mrs. ....)

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If you look at house sizes,in the past, energy was the size factor. What you could afford,or were able to cut, determined the size of your house. If the grid goes down, how much of your present house could you maintain in something like an Ohio Winter? In the Dakotas, I saw houses that were under 200 square feet.Wood heated.. Gives a whole new meaning to cabin fever.

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http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2007/11...tion-mark.html

Family of 4 living in this one...

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small shelters are the way to go :ok:

mainly because of heating in the winter
plus one may not accumulate as much STUFF because of size limitations

LESS IS MORE



almost everytime i go to Home Depot or similar
i stop at the outdoor tool sheds and wonder . . . . .

http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pro...7b82e0_400.jpg http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pro...b28cee_400.jpg

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The shed is a cool idea if you are single. I got a two car garage for free on Craigslist that I am turning into a house. It is 22' wide and 24' deep (plus a lean-to on one side). It is about as small as I can sanely go with a wife and four kids.

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SLV that would be a good thread to start!

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The garage will be arriving on my property in a few weeks. I'll start a thread then.

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I could live in a 12'x12' shed.
I lived on a 25ft sailboat for years....
My wife on the other hand, Has way to much stuff(artist/silversmith/lampworker)
never happen.

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This website has got a lot of good ideas when it comes to building your own small house.

There are forums with all sorts of people in different stages of building their own homesteads:

http://www.countryplans.com/

Pretty neat.

Less to insulate, less to heat, less to cool. Basically like a cooler with windows.

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freaking dump! jeez

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Agreed. Just because it is under construction doesn't mean it has to be a dump.

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:ok: I live on a roomy 40 foot sailboat. Roomy, meaning probably less than 200 square feet of total living space. I'm comfortable, boat's paid for, no debt. During the winter I heat the boat with oil lamps. Currently working on installing solar, and should be completely off the grid at that point.

You don't accumulate stuff when there's no place to put it. Less 'stuff' equals more freedom.

EDIT: The KEY to living comfortably in a small home is windows. Windows, windows, and more windows. When you can stand in your small home and look out and see everything going on around you, it's great. I watch sea otters playing, from my small space. All because of windows. If your home is small and cozy, being able to be a part of the nature around you is very nice.

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I could even live in a doghouse if I was allowed to poop somewhere out in the yard.

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Not in Wisconsin. If you want an outhouse it has to be designed and installed by a licensed plumber, and they won't let you have one if you have any interior plumbing.

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I don't need an outhouse. All I need is a doghouse and a yard.

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Might have something to do with all the liquor bottles crated up haha.

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probably because if the state found out they did not each have their own room -- bigger than your whole house -- they would send the cps nazis to take them from you.
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Hopefully God will bless you with very tiny children.

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And rightly so - the kids are being brought up wrongly. My kids were kennelled in a 40 gallon drum each until they were 12 years old. Then I moved them out to the freedom of a 1000 gallon oil tank. They'll thank me later.

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It is true that most municipal codes require that you put no more than 2 kids in each bedroom.
I've wondered how Thoreau's Walden eperiment wpuld have been different if it was conducted today according to building codes, zoning regulations, and environmental law.

"Simplify!"

"I'm sorry, sir. You're not allowed to."

My tiny house is going to cost me about $35k - and most of that is because of code requirements rather than my own luxurious desires.

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FWIW my father built a 20' x 20' house and moved in with seven kids. Three beds fit around the dinner table, I and my sister slept in the living room, and two slept outside in a trailer. When I got bigger I moved into the tool shed. Dad spent ten years building a bigger house on the front of the lot, every bit of it paid for, cash and carry.

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Quite common back 50 years ago. Know a few from that era. Renovated chicken coops, sheds, whatever. Can you imagine telling a teenager today you are going to be sleeping in a tool shed??:111:

I lived 4 months in a 6 x 9 (not prison). I was building my house and lived in the shed in the back of the property. All cooking was done on a bbq or coleman camp stove, and all bathing was done in the backyard with the help of a firepit and 2 gallon galvanized pail of water. I could do that for a year if I had to, but not with the wife or kids......I'd:10_1_19:

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Please tell me you are joking. The reason you haven't found anything is because 6 people require more space than 688 square feet to live comfortably.

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Not joking. The actual garage is 528 square feet, the rest is a lean-to on one side that will house a utility room and small reading nook.

I'll start a thread in a couple weeks that will include 3D models to demonstrate feasibility.

I am planning on adding a second garage to double the floor space a few years later. I am designing the epansion to accomodate my four daughters through their teen years, and then later it will function as an apartment for my aging parents. This is why I am building it on a heated slab with handicap accessibility. It will make more sense when you see the drawings.

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That is why I am building something so small - I want to pay cash for everything. I'm building what I can afford (I hope). But laws and codes have nearly made it impossible for the average person to build a home without a loan.

We do have 5.25 acres, so even though the house is so small we will actually have lots of room for "living".

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I'm a House fan, but I'm not exactly tiny!

http://pinstripebindi.files.wordpres...2/housemd1.jpg

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First off, bless you for having 4 daughters and possibly 6 women under your roof.

I must admit, I can not imagine 600 sq ft total living area. But, I remember some of your past posts on the topic - you know your needs and have done your research.

I am planning to build a "workshop" on 5/10 acres sometime...and plan to have a pole building built of around 2000 sq ft for anywhere between 25 and 50k. I will "finish out" 500 sq ft or so of it at a time..but have all the electrical/plumbing in place at the time it is built. A 1 bathroom workshop is a lot less taxes here than a 1 bath house. I'm figuring 100k for building/land. By doing this I see no real need to sacrifice space and I can add rooms as I want.

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I seriously considered doing a 16' high pole barn and finishing one end as a two-story house. Someone down the road from me has done the same, but they refuse to talk to me about it (no permits?). Ultimately it was going to prove costly, so I needed to make the pole building a future project. If I'm lucky I'll be as well outfitted as TNandy before I die!

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look up tumbleweed homes