In praise of tiny houses

By on August 24th, 2008

I love the concept of the tiny house, and clever alternative housing in general. So I was intrigued by this story from the Hartford Courant: a soon-to-be Yale forestry grad student is building herself a mini-house, complete with solar array, instead of moving into student housing. Check out the video tour! (Via Apartment Therapy: Re-Nest.)

It's the kind of thing I wish I'd thought of when I was in grad school in Ann Arbor, instead of forking over ridiculously high percentages of my stipend for crappy apartments. Compared to some of the slumlord-managed hellholes I looked at while searching for somewhere to live over the years, a tiny house sounds like heaven.

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2 Responses to “In praise of tiny houses”

  1. Jodi Schneider says:
    August 24, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Amanda,
    Are you familiar with Christopher Alexander’s _A Pattern Language_? “A House for One Person” (see
    http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl078.htm) has always struck me as brilliant.

  2. Amanda says:
    August 25, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    You know, it’s been on my to-read list for ages. I’ll have to check it out sometime soon. I like the “house for one person” concept too — I think the problem with most studio apartments is that they’re just not laid out with an eye toward making them livable like that.