I love the third one, as i like how the shower and toilet is, i just love the way it set up as it looks very homely and i can see my self and my partner living in this one.....
This is wonderful. I never thought about living in a tiny house but the more I see people who have them the more I think it would be nice. It is just myself plus two cats and I don't need or want a large space or many things.
I have MANY favourites among Kirsten Dirksen's videos. But this is a favourite among favourites! Thanks to Kirsten Dirksen, Deb Delman and Kol Peterson!
Excellent! I am envisioning a community of crafty and creative folks developing plans to allow cities a chance to revive true home living in a green affordable setting. This method of construction seems very environmentally conscious. And I commend the people behind the tiny home movement. Inspirational!
THIS ROCKS! I HOPE MORE OF THESE POP UP! I am in the middle of designing my tiny house right now and can't wait to move into! our family is ready to downsize and save some money going off grid.
Like the way that there is a description/ introduction on each video, quite informative. Don't like the "wet bath" though, where everything get wet , prefer the shower design with separate compartment with shower curtains or glass door panels which could keep the sink , the toilet and the rest of the place dry and tidy.
Glad to see that the city allowed you to have this! Love it! My wife and I have a piece of land back in Louisiana we would like to do the same with but I doubt the zoning laws will allow us to do so.
really glad to see the city opening to this idea. I wish it had a more garden feel outside rather than asphalt though....perhaps you are not allowed to do this...or perhaps you need space to move the tiny houses around. What about larger planting boxes on wheels??? maybe even several that are as big as maybe 3 x 6 feet . and then they also might not even need to be square but a bit more curvy. It could really transform the parking lot feel ....cheers and best of luck !
What an awesome idea, especially if one is thinking of living this way you have provided a way to try it out. I love your setup! Good luck with your endeavour!
I love American entrepreneurial spirit and to be honest if the price is right and I am visiting Portland I will be staying there. One thing I want to do is see if it is something that I could live in for a semi long term. I also would like to say the hostess/tour guide looked very cute.
I was just in Portland last week for the first time and drove to this place because I really wanted to check it out. Unfortunately it was closed off so I couldn't take a tour, but I was able to take some lovely pics of the outside. Glad this video is up, so I still get a little tour:). I wish they had this tiny house movement in the DC area!
Sort of reminds me of an Irish Tinker's Wagon. Thanks for being a pioneer for Urban Residence for Travelers. We need to change the Mind Set .. of how things CAN be. Hats Off to Portand too.
If more hotels like this would open up along bikable routes, it would be easier and more affordable to take multi-day trips. No parking or big land-parcel needed; just a place to park bikes and the tiny houses as cabins. Maybe a hand-washing area for clothes would also be good; you can hang them on the back of your bike to dry while you're riding to the next destination.
Love the rock counter tops in the first one. He did a great job building it. I liked them all each had something special about them. I love your idea here glad it was able to work out. I want a small place like this sell my big home and do this. That’s my dream :)
What a great way for people to experience tiny living, and probably a good way to pick up a few ideas about they features they would want in their own tiny house.
Interesting ideas... too big for a youtube comments section. I just posted a discussion thread on the faircompanies forum section on the idea if anyone has any more in-depth thoughts on traditional caravans and caravanning and the relationship to tiny house living today. You can find the post by going to the forum section of the faircompanies site.
discountconsulting Their wagons were a form of conveyance, not the desired quarters of their destination- and the wagons carried all their worldly possessions and supplies for the trip. They didn't live in them, though you could say they lived out of them.
FuckGoogle+ What's your point? They weren't stuck in cities working dead-end jobs to pay rent or afford a mortgage that keeps them indentured to debt. What is the 'American Dream?' Consumerism in pursuit of status funded by endless cycles of debt-driven income and spending? Is that what you think pioneers imagine 'somewhere over the rainbow' as freedom?
discountconsulting The point was the pioneers didn't live IN their wagons, I thought that was pretty obvious. Perhaps before you launch off in a tirade about lots of other issues you should stop to understand the one simple one being discussed.
FuckGoogle+ Ok, please explain how they lived. What did they do at night when it was time to sleep? Pitch a tent? Are you sure some didn't sleep in the covered wagon to save time pitching and breaking down tents? Maybe they just slept outside on the ground when the weather was nice. You could do that with a tiny house too. What you call "launching off on a tirade" is a response to nit-picking about the exact function of covered wagons. I don't mind discussing that but my point was that westward pioneers trekked away from the civilization they knew it to live free in covered wagons until they got the chance to settle and build something more substantial. I would also guess that many people slept in the covered wagons at least some of the time. Why wouldn't they? Better to take out supplies at night and sleep in the wagon than leave the supplies inside and sleep on the ground, no?
True... which is why we need pioneers like these people to help change the 'common' mindset. Look at all these very BIG, and very EMPTY McMansions which are currently littering the landscape. The world IS changing. Tiny home "communities" might be one answer.. especially for an aging population. Tiny homes = less children = less schools and less services over all. I think America, needs to re-think the whole Housing thing.. but it will take pioneers to do it.
Beautifully done! Like, most people, have no clue on how to get started regarding zoning laws and permits...I'm in my 40's and have been a renter all my life. Never really wanted to own a huge house with a huge mortgage...And, now at my age, home ownership is out of the question. I would be paying a mortgage until my death. Having a tiny home is finally the solution to home ownership. The problem, I encounter is where do you park these homes? Thank you, Dee.
+Walter Vega Buy land OUTSIDE COMUNISTS CALIFORNIA and put up a wooden fence around your place FIRST. Try to do this at a place that has a well water system. As for the electric that is tricky but can be done if you get a hybrid car you can use the car as energy storage to help offset the cost of batteries. Panels could be used for most of your daily use. Washing clothes you could do that by hand and use a clothes spinner to dry them for the most part hang them up to dry the rest, trick to that is have one of them carports erected for $600 and string your line under there. It is more flying under the radar than anything. You do it this way and keep your mouth shut about what you are doing they have no clue what is going on inside your little fortress. Last I checked this is America we don't ask permission we grant them permission and today's government needs to learn who is boss. The government is going to try to look in on your place from the sky you need to conceal your place from aerial shots use the tricks the duck hunters use. If somebody ask you about your place you ask them a question never give them an answer and when pressed you answer your phone weather it rings or not.
I have done some reading on Gypsy (Romani) Caravans. Often they would combined the mobile dwellings with temporary shelters such as the iconic "Gypsy Bender" tents. Besides researching traditional Romani living, British Campaign Furniture (knock down, modular, designed for travel) has been a hobby of mine for some years. There is also the nomadic Mongolian Yurt lifestlye which offers many lessons in tiny home living.
Very cool! I would like to suggest that they put in some raised bed square foot gardens boxes along with some vertical planters to green up the parking lot look.
It would be awesome if they were 100% off the grid along with the tiny house coolness. Solar panels, mini windmills, composting toilets and water catchment systems.
Dear, Deb & Kol Congratulations on this awesome Idea ( I mean the Hotel). I Build Food trailers and all kinds of stuff and have always being fascinated by people who make this world different are creative and follow ideas until they materialized , if someday I have the fortune to go Portland I will pay you a visit. Gus Rodriguez Denver Colorado
i would love to visit the tiny hotel but we live in scotland trying to get hubby to build one of these for us will keep trying.Just wonderfull to see them
An honest and fair question. They did mention in the beginning of the presentation that caravan living is nothing new. I think too that one can get an idea of what their lot used to like judging by the lot next to it. What an improvement! This tiny house hotel has more space between them than did my townhouse community so I'm sure it doesn't require anymore social skills than that:)
I just tore down my 1973 camper to the frame to build something new but not a tiny home like that but a new concept similar to that but fun and off the wall that would get attention and smiles / would like to see more pics of the one that man built that had to take care of his wife ( saw some great ideas)
1000 Trails has these in most of their 198 campgrounds across the US. I was the Manager of the one in Monroe Washington. We had 4. Really nice. Some mobile home parks will allow them. I rent a spot in a friend's back yard for mine.
I like the shower and toilet to be different spaces as opposed to one wet room. What would be cool would be a small putting green n the court area. I think there should be more hotels like this. Like to see one in New York City.
I love it! My advise to anybody that wants to do this, Do It NOW! I live in New York City and there are talks of building these types of units around the city. The problem is, NYC doesn't cater to it's residents. It only cares about the tourists, which means ridiculous building codes will be attached to this type of project and will ruin it for everyone else. The modesty of such lovely homes will be removed. Of course NY is not the first to do this, but it will eventually set the precedence.
id on't see how this is considered different then a mobile home park to the state. Its very cool, like to see a nationwide infrastructure so that one could easily move from town to town as one does on a sailboat to marinas. I've been on my sailboat (120 sq ft) for over 10 years, I would love to see this as an option and a place to dig in the dirt again.
I thought it was old stock from Ikea, but there is one at Bed Bath and Beyond! I think they added the black tile in this video... you could have it plain or add what you like!
I love these home and also the homes of Brad Kittel of Tiny Texas Houses. I live in Manhattan and wish for a little land somewhere to build a Fencl or a Popomo by Tumbleweed Tiny House. I wish you all the best with your growing community.
geez now you're giving me ideas. the prototype I'm putting together is going up pretty fast. should have nearly all but the roof on by the end of today. then I gotta fit out the insides.
wet bath - I lived in a place with one. The shower curtain ring was a circle. In this way the curtain was able to go around the toilet and sink therefore not get everything wet. Just a suggestion.
They really need to make sure that these small homes on trailers are welcomed, and legal to be in, mobile home parks. Many places do not have campgrounds, and those that do are many times not going to have monthly long term rates that are feasible. The last house shown is the one that I liked the most, however, all of them really need more shelves with doors. The walls need to be covered with shelves that hold small items and doors on those shelves, too many visible items make it look worse.
"Sense of living experience" is subjective. To each his own. Less house means less maintenance, less to heat, less to cool, less required to furnish, less to finance and possibly less to insure. This translates into savings. While it may not give the returns of a large home it has its returns and not everyone can afford a large home and the stress of a job in order to have what they don't even want in the first place. There's more to life than keeping up with the Joneses.
I wish my kids were on board with me on this idea I have ,they both want their own place ,but financially it is hard so I came up with the idea of both owning their own tiny mobile home in our back yard .It can be done but they are not thinking that way yet .i think I give them enough time they will came around .
Hi, Great video! I'm wondering if this kind of place could be set up for monthly rentals. If so, perhaps then it could have a co-housing variation, like common outdoor kitchen, common sauna & showers, maybe a trailer that is a laundry room and storage room? The other thing I wonder: Are the tiny houses kept to that length partly to stay under a certain code? If no code problems, why not make the trailers 10 feet longer? How about slide outs? After all, they are not on the road.
Hai, i think your idea is great ..and i know that Indonesia, especially batu city..will be a perfect fit for your project. We have many hotels..yet the younger people are tired for being a bit isolated in a hotel..so your project will be a perfect fit..and especially for Americans our money exchange rate is 10 or 12 times cheaper..so you can have much more benefit and greater hotels..especially in 2015 the tax for every imported stuff and people from abroad are being reduced..so it is a great benefit
Hey ! ive been working with designing a house on wheels and i was wondering if you could take a look on the video and also if you have any tips or suggestions. I would really appriciate that. The video "tiny house idea" is just 1 minute long so it wont take much of your time. really nice place by the way
If such a place existed in SF, and available for monthly rental, the price would be about $2,000/month. Not cheap, but the alternative at that price is a tiny studio apt.
Having a small home doesn't necessarily mandate freedom, but rather it's the highly active social, urban lifestyle that has the person using their home only as an office or bedroom. The person is not tied down to one place. It's just somewhere to sleep and put all their stuff. It's no different from having a large block of land that gives you the freedom to do as you please, or having a large house that offers both security and privacy. All of these require money to work.
I'm not sure where you got Detroit from. I live in Missouri and we have very nice homes for 50k. I disagree that living in a tiny house is "substandard". I think for many it's a lifestyle that gives them a lot of freedom. For the homeless it's better than sleeping outside. In SoCal people rent tin sheds for 500 a month with no utilities or bathroom. I do agree that Tiny Houses could be produced for much less than they go for now. I also agree that a loft is a big turn for many people.
These tiny houses that are featured were lovely and the grounds maintained very well.
I love the third one, as i like how the shower and toilet is, i just love the way it set up as it looks very homely and i can see my self and my partner living in this one.....
This is wonderful. I never thought about living in a tiny house but the more I see people who have them the more I think it would be nice. It is just myself plus two cats and I don't need or want a large space or many things.
I have MANY favourites among Kirsten Dirksen's videos. But this is a favourite among favourites!
Thanks to Kirsten Dirksen, Deb Delman and Kol Peterson!
Tiny Texas Houses are great! I love how they recycle the old to make something new and totaly artistic. I get inspired everytime I see Brad's work.
Excellent! I am envisioning a community of crafty and creative folks developing plans to allow cities a chance to revive true home living in a green affordable setting. This method of construction seems very environmentally conscious. And I commend the people behind the tiny home movement. Inspirational!
THIS ROCKS! I HOPE MORE OF THESE POP UP! I am in the middle of designing my tiny house right now and can't wait to move into! our family is ready to downsize and save some money going off grid.
This is an awesome idea! Kudos to the folks who came up with this one.
An awesome way for first time home owners and retirees.
Like the way that there is a description/ introduction on each video, quite informative. Don't like the "wet bath" though, where everything get wet , prefer the shower design with separate compartment with shower curtains or glass door panels which could keep the sink , the toilet and the rest of the place dry and tidy.
Glad to see that the city allowed you to have this! Love it! My wife and I have a piece of land back in Louisiana we would like to do the same with but I doubt the zoning laws will allow us to do so.
You go girls. What a Blessing you are. Keep up good work. I'm a senior living in RV , hoping to find similar place of Peace.
What a great way to try out living in a tiny house! Great video!
really glad to see the city opening to this idea. I wish it had a more garden feel outside rather than asphalt though....perhaps you are not allowed to do this...or perhaps you need space to move the tiny houses around. What about larger planting boxes on wheels??? maybe even several that are as big as maybe 3 x 6 feet . and then they also might not even need to be square but a bit more curvy. It could really transform the parking lot feel ....cheers and best of luck !
What an awesome idea, especially if one is thinking of living this way you have provided a way to try it out. I love your setup! Good luck with your endeavour!
I'd love to stay in the Rosebud. It's is so cute, but so are the other two in the video. Kirsten, thank you for sharing these wonderful tiny houses.
I love American entrepreneurial spirit and to be honest if the price is right and I am visiting Portland I will be staying there. One thing I want to do is see if it is something that I could live in for a semi long term. I also would like to say the hostess/tour guide looked very cute.
I was just in Portland last week for the first time and drove to this place because I really wanted to check it out. Unfortunately it was closed off so I couldn't take a tour, but I was able to take some lovely pics of the outside. Glad this video is up, so I still get a little tour:). I wish they had this tiny house movement in the DC area!
Will you be back in Portland soon ?
Sort of reminds me of an Irish Tinker's Wagon.
Thanks for being a pioneer for Urban Residence for Travelers. We need to change the Mind Set .. of how things CAN be. Hats Off to Portand too.
If more hotels like this would open up along bikable routes, it would be easier and more affordable to take multi-day trips. No parking or big land-parcel needed; just a place to park bikes and the tiny houses as cabins. Maybe a hand-washing area for clothes would also be good; you can hang them on the back of your bike to dry while you're riding to the next destination.
This is such a good idea to get the idea out to more people who can then pass on the experience to people they know!
Love the rock counter tops in the first one. He did a great job building it. I liked them all each had something special about them. I love your idea here glad it was able to work out. I want a small place like this sell my big home and do this. That’s my dream :)
This is exactly what I am working on doing in NYC! #excited
+Tiny House intheCity When will it be done?
+Tiny House intheCity Take me with you too!
What a great way for people to experience tiny living, and probably a good way to pick up a few ideas about they features they would want in their own tiny house.
I REALLY love your videos, I am planning to buy a small house and your videos have helped me to plan a lot of things regarding space.
I Love This from the UK. And Hope to visit in September 2014
Great work, you have done a great job with this and it shows that you care.
Interesting ideas... too big for a youtube comments section. I just posted a discussion thread on the faircompanies forum section on the idea if anyone has any more in-depth thoughts on traditional caravans and caravanning and the relationship to tiny house living today. You can find the post by going to the forum section of the faircompanies site.
This is so fantastic. Of course my family thinks I have lost my mind, but this country and the American Dream is not at all what it is believed to be.
What they are doing IS 'the American Dream.' What do you think pioneers lived in as they moved west except covered wagons about this size?
discountconsulting Their wagons were a form of conveyance, not the desired quarters of their destination- and the wagons carried all their worldly possessions and supplies for the trip. They didn't live in them, though you could say they lived out of them.
FuckGoogle+ What's your point? They weren't stuck in cities working dead-end jobs to pay rent or afford a mortgage that keeps them indentured to debt. What is the 'American Dream?' Consumerism in pursuit of status funded by endless cycles of debt-driven income and spending? Is that what you think pioneers imagine 'somewhere over the rainbow' as freedom?
discountconsulting The point was the pioneers didn't live IN their wagons, I thought that was pretty obvious. Perhaps before you launch off in a tirade about lots of other issues you should stop to understand the one simple one being discussed.
FuckGoogle+ Ok, please explain how they lived. What did they do at night when it was time to sleep? Pitch a tent? Are you sure some didn't sleep in the covered wagon to save time pitching and breaking down tents? Maybe they just slept outside on the ground when the weather was nice. You could do that with a tiny house too.
What you call "launching off on a tirade" is a response to nit-picking about the exact function of covered wagons. I don't mind discussing that but my point was that westward pioneers trekked away from the civilization they knew it to live free in covered wagons until they got the chance to settle and build something more substantial.
I would also guess that many people slept in the covered wagons at least some of the time. Why wouldn't they? Better to take out supplies at night and sleep in the wagon than leave the supplies inside and sleep on the ground, no?
I would love to live in a community full of tiny homes!
Would be super fun :D
True... which is why we need pioneers like these people to help change the 'common' mindset. Look at all these very BIG, and very EMPTY McMansions which are currently littering the landscape. The world IS changing. Tiny home "communities" might be one answer.. especially for an aging population. Tiny homes = less children = less schools and less services over all. I think America, needs to re-think the whole Housing thing.. but it will take pioneers to do it.
Faith Rada if I had my own "trailer home".. I'd never stay in the one spot.
That's a beautiful table with the black tiles on top. I like shiny stuff.
Great idea , hope to see more around the country .
Beautifully done! Like, most people, have no clue on how to get started regarding zoning laws and permits...I'm in my 40's and have been a renter all my life. Never really wanted to own a huge house with a huge mortgage...And, now at my age, home ownership is out of the question. I would be paying a mortgage until my death. Having a tiny home is finally the solution to home ownership. The problem, I encounter is where do you park these homes?
Thank you,
Dee.
+Walter Vega Buy land OUTSIDE COMUNISTS CALIFORNIA and put up a wooden fence around your place FIRST. Try to do this at a place that has a well water system. As for the electric that is tricky but can be done if you get a hybrid car you can use the car as energy storage to help offset the cost of batteries. Panels could be used for most of your daily use. Washing clothes you could do that by hand and use a clothes spinner to dry them for the most part hang them up to dry the rest, trick to that is have one of them carports erected for $600 and string your line under there. It is more flying under the radar than anything. You do it this way and keep your mouth shut about what you are doing they have no clue what is going on inside your little fortress. Last I checked this is America we don't ask permission we grant them permission and today's government needs to learn who is boss. The government is going to try to look in on your place from the sky you need to conceal your place from aerial shots use the tricks the duck hunters use. If somebody ask you about your place you ask them a question never give them an answer and when pressed you answer your phone weather it rings or not.
GEAUX-PRIUS Cowboy damn straight.
That's a really nice idea. I have had a similar idea for a while. Nice to see someone was successful with it.
I have done some reading on Gypsy (Romani) Caravans. Often they would combined the mobile dwellings with temporary shelters such as the iconic "Gypsy Bender" tents. Besides researching traditional Romani living, British Campaign Furniture (knock down, modular, designed for travel) has been a hobby of mine for some years. There is also the nomadic Mongolian Yurt lifestlye which offers many lessons in tiny home living.
Awesome! You do beautiful woodwork. Great job and keep up the good work!
- Semper Fi
thanks for sharing. living spaces in my country are getting smaller by the decade.
useful inspiration for my future home.
I love this! Great video and great information!!
Very cool! I would like to suggest that they put in some raised bed square foot gardens boxes along with some vertical planters to green up the parking lot look.
It would be awesome if they were 100% off the grid along with the tiny house coolness. Solar panels, mini windmills, composting toilets and water catchment systems.
Love it, would be a wonderful way to try out a tiny home if a person was thinking of building & living in one.
This is awesome!!!! You have built! We will come!!!!!!
Great video very impressive and informative. thanks for sharing.
Your videos are my stress reliever :) THANKS!
I agree I'd like to see more greenery outside and maybe even a big pool in the middle.
Dear,
Deb & Kol
Congratulations on this awesome Idea ( I mean the Hotel). I Build Food trailers and all kinds of stuff and have always being fascinated by people who make this world different are creative and follow ideas until they materialized , if someday I have the fortune to go Portland I will pay you a visit.
Gus Rodriguez
Denver Colorado
i would love to visit the tiny hotel but we live in scotland trying to get hubby to build one of these for us will keep trying.Just wonderfull to see them
An honest and fair question. They did mention in the beginning of the presentation that caravan living is nothing new. I think too that one can get an idea of what their lot used to like judging by the lot next to it. What an improvement! This tiny house hotel has more space between them than did my townhouse community so I'm sure it doesn't require anymore social skills than that:)
I just tore down my 1973 camper to the frame to build something new but not a tiny home like that but a new concept similar to that but fun and off the wall that would get attention and smiles / would like to see more pics of the one that man built that had to take care of his wife ( saw some great ideas)
2:23 I love how the ground is not connected to anything lol.
I love it love it love it ,I am constructing one out of my pop up camper ,yes is small but I love my trailer !!!
Another awesome video! Thanks for sharing.
1000 Trails has these in most of their 198 campgrounds across the US. I was the Manager of the one in Monroe Washington. We had 4. Really nice.
Some mobile home parks will allow them. I rent a spot in a friend's back yard for mine.
Great.....I like it.....
Visiting portland recently....I like to stay at least a couple of days....
When I see these tiny little travel trailer things in my home town I just think to myself.
"Great, we just went back 150 years..."
madjimms don't worry.. You can still plug in an Xbox and 42" TV
I have been looking at tiny houses for awhile now and would like to build one some day. To live in a community of them would be cool great idea.
I love how they get what they want in Portland
Bravo! Great idea and much applause for running the zoning gauntlet.
I like the shower and toilet to be different spaces as opposed to one wet room. What would be cool would be a small putting green n the court area. I think there should be more hotels like this. Like to see one in New York City.
I love it! My advise to anybody that wants to do this, Do It NOW! I live in New York City and there are talks of building these types of units around the city. The problem is, NYC doesn't cater to it's residents. It only cares about the tourists, which means ridiculous building codes will be attached to this type of project and will ruin it for everyone else. The modesty of such lovely homes will be removed. Of course NY is not the first to do this, but it will eventually set the precedence.
Thank you so much!
id on't see how this is considered different then a mobile home park to the state.
Its very cool, like to see a nationwide infrastructure so that one could easily move from town to town as one does on a sailboat to marinas.
I've been on my sailboat (120 sq ft) for over 10 years, I would love to see this as an option and a place to dig in the dirt again.
jackchorn no motor on their home..
I thought it was old stock from Ikea, but there is one at Bed Bath and Beyond! I think they added the black tile in this video... you could have it plain or add what you like!
So cool! Can't wait to visit PDX and stay in one of these tiny homes.
wish you would build a cover or put a garden box in front of the wheels / tires out of site out of mind would make this house look more complete
I love these home and also the homes of Brad Kittel of Tiny Texas Houses. I live in Manhattan and wish for a little land somewhere to build a Fencl or a Popomo by Tumbleweed Tiny House. I wish you all the best with your growing community.
wonderful!
I love it! I want the modern one!!!
geez now you're giving me ideas. the prototype I'm putting together is going up pretty fast. should have nearly all but the roof on by the end of today. then I gotta fit out the insides.
I would love to live in a Tiny House. Something to look into for my "Golden Years".
wet bath - I lived in a place with one. The shower curtain ring was a circle. In this way the curtain was able to go around the toilet and sink therefore not get everything wet. Just a suggestion.
wow that is so cool i wish they had one in my area, it looks very quaint.
Live 3 blocks away. Its the cutest tiny house "hotel". Love passing by it. No it is not an RV park as a few have said.
They really need to make sure that these small homes on trailers are welcomed, and legal to be in, mobile home parks. Many places do not have campgrounds, and those that do are many times not going to have monthly long term rates that are feasible. The last house shown is the one that I liked the most, however, all of them really need more shelves with doors. The walls need to be covered with shelves that hold small items and doors on those shelves, too many visible items make it look worse.
"Sense of living experience" is subjective. To each his own. Less house means less maintenance, less to heat, less to cool, less required to furnish, less to finance and possibly less to insure. This translates into savings. While it may not give the returns of a large home it has its returns and not everyone can afford a large home and the stress of a job in order to have what they don't even want in the first place. There's more to life than keeping up with the Joneses.
Wait till the Interst rates go up... these 'tiny homes' will begin to look a lot more attractive then living in one's car.
There is some good food just feet away which is a plus lol. It would have been nice to check out the tiny homes when I was there
I would love to pay a visit..looks so cozy :)
I wish my kids were on board with me on this idea I have ,they both want their own place ,but financially it is hard so I came up with the idea of both owning their own tiny mobile home in our back yard .It can be done but they are not thinking that way yet .i think I give them enough time they will came around .
Ana Vreeland get one and show them.
RV's are of a certain size (bigger then most tiny houses) Don't need to be, in most cases, attached to the back end of a vehicle to be moved.
Hi,
Great video! I'm wondering if this kind of place could be set up for monthly rentals. If so, perhaps then it could have a co-housing variation, like common outdoor kitchen, common sauna & showers, maybe a trailer that is a laundry room and storage room?
The other thing I wonder: Are the tiny houses kept to that length partly to stay under a certain code? If no code problems, why not make the trailers 10 feet longer? How about slide outs? After all, they are not on the road.
Hunter Mann they're keeping it under code on purpose.
Hai, i think your idea is great ..and i know that Indonesia, especially batu city..will be a perfect fit for your project. We have many hotels..yet the younger people are tired for being a bit isolated in a hotel..so your project will be a perfect fit..and especially for Americans our money exchange rate is 10 or 12 times cheaper..so you can have much more benefit and greater hotels..especially in 2015 the tax for every imported stuff and people from abroad are being reduced..so it is a great benefit
Take it and run with it.
I so love this type of living too.
do you have more information about that one you started to show at 8:11?
Hey ! ive been working with designing a house
on wheels and i was wondering if you could take
a look on the video and also if you have any
tips or suggestions. I would really appriciate
that. The video "tiny house idea" is just 1 minute
long so it wont take much of your time.
really nice place by the way
Very creative!!
"..what we have been taught to want is so comercially consumer based..." :D nice way to put it!
Great concept
If such a place existed in SF, and available for monthly rental, the price would be about $2,000/month. Not cheap, but the alternative at that price is a tiny studio apt.
Man it would be fabulous to own one of those ♥
These young ladies r too sweet :)
Nice and cozy!
Great space, I'd totally stay in this "hotel"! Maybe it would be better with a little bit more green space outside :)
Having a small home doesn't necessarily mandate freedom, but rather it's the highly active social, urban lifestyle that has the person using their home only as an office or bedroom. The person is not tied down to one place. It's just somewhere to sleep and put all their stuff. It's no different from having a large block of land that gives you the freedom to do as you please, or having a large house that offers both security and privacy. All of these require money to work.
This is the future of America...if we're going to have any future at all...like it or not. I like it...but most people want to "chase stuff" still.
I would love to visit there soon , but I would love to live in one.
I'm not sure where you got Detroit from. I live in Missouri and we have very nice homes for 50k. I disagree that living in a tiny house is "substandard". I think for many it's a lifestyle that gives them a lot of freedom. For the homeless it's better than sleeping outside. In SoCal people rent tin sheds for 500 a month with no utilities or bathroom. I do agree that Tiny Houses could be produced for much less than they go for now. I also agree that a loft is a big turn for many people.
If there are these hotel in my country, I would try life in tiny houses.
I want a tiny house. But I have never stayed tiny home, even RVs.
This is an amazing idea making travel less expensive.