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From the article -
"These small houses will really make you question whether you need all that space."
Uh, no it won't - it shows some fairly nice itty bitty shelters but to live there for more than a month ... not unless that is my only choice.
How do 3, 9 and 13 qualify as tiny houses (and inexpensive come to that)?
OK! New Headline: Tiny and Inexpensive (Excepting 3, 9 and 13) Houses Are NOT for Everyone
Definitely mashable lived up to its name by mashing all these houses into one list. Some are pieces of art and others little more than the usual transient living trailer. Nonetheless, I welcome the trend. Though like anything, it will be the powers-that-be, such as local governments and land development interests, that will prevent the biggest challenges, like zoning, tie-ins, and the rest.
Sure, if only all of us could go off-grid! But what´s the urbanite version of tiny-houses? Outside of overpriced efficiency apts, I mean.
I agree. Urban areas have zoning laws and tons of rules and regulations. Heck, you can't chop down a tree without permission. Like you, I enjoyed the ART ones. I thought the multistory one where you park under it was clever. But you are 100% CORRECT -- 'Tis the stuff of daydreams ... unless you live off-grid :)
Anyone seen the costs of some of the container-based homes? They are more expensive than timber frame. I haven't seen one yet that's affordable, yet container-based homes are constantly hyped as a low-cost alternative.
These houses strike me as homes for people who have no hobbies or interests outside of their jobs: There isn't any space inside these things other than to eat, sleep, and poop. Then again that describes a lot of people who live in small city apartments.
All I know is that I spent the better part of 10-15 years living in either really small apartments and later renting rooms ( the last was 8x10 feet ) and to now have a whole house is simply amazing and wonderful to behold.
These houses strike me as homes for people who have no hobbies or interests outside of their jobs: There isn't any space inside these things other than to eat, sleep, and poop.
They're also either winter temporary getaways that are really expensive, or they're in the West where you can live outside most of the year.
Try living in one in Vermont, Minnesota, or Louisiana where it's either freezing 6 months of the year, or boiling hot.
This is PR piece for Johnsen Schmaling Architects.
For example, Patrick could beef up his traffic with an article "The 10 biggest trolls on the internet". Make sure 4 or 5 are from Patrick.net (easy) and boom.
This is PR piece for Johnsen Schmaling Architects.
If that's the case then it makes sense. These articles show up a lot here. Almost as much as those " Trick to getting skinny" or- eat this and never be fat again!" type ads.
I also think this is the wrong forum for that type of ad. Not enough hipsters on here.
I will admit some of those homes look nice, but otherwise this is the same Tiny House Article that has run every week for the last 5 years.
(1) Either doesn't print costs, or if they do, the cost per square foot is 4 to 5 times that of a Not-Tiny House
(2) Never mentions the hookups in these remote locations -- water, electricity, sewage.
(3) Never mentions the cost of land, or if they are squatting in their neighbor's backyard.
(4) Refuses to acknowledge that a House's costs are not based on Volume (r^3), but on Surface Area (r^2) (hence, McMansions make more sense than tiny houses), thus every house is literally a bubble--a square bubble with space inside.
Ha! I sure as heck don't do PR for Johnsen Schmaling Architects.
I grew up in an Eichler https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/eichler%20haslacher
Eichler made "cost efficient" homes. Mostly of Glass. Steve Jobs didn't grow up in one.
I find Architecture ... hmmm, interesting.
I'm retired. Ask Patrick of Patrick.net. He bought me a coffee at Peet's once and I spilled my guts on a lot of stuff. Showed him stuff I'd written in the days when tech companies hired me to write.
I'm not getting Patrick's Bullet Point thing (for want of a better way of describing it) in my email any more.
Sooooooo, I thought I'd visit the -Horse's- Tiger's Mouth.
Gettin' pretty cynical ... around these parts :)
There should be a counter point: The Monster house. Like a house you can land your own 747 on the roof huge...
Ha! I sure as heck don't do PR for Johnsen Schmaling Architects.
I grew up in an Eichler https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/eichler%20haslacher
Eichler made "cost efficient" homes. Mostly of Glass. Steve Jobs didn't grow up in one.
I find Architecture ... hmmm, interesting.
I'm retired. Ask Patrick of Patrick.net. He bought me a coffee at Peet's once and I spilled my guts on a lot of stuff. Showed him stuff I'd written in the days when tech companies hired me to write.
I'm not getting Patrick's Bullet Point thing (for want of a better way of describing it) in my email any more.
Sooooooo, I thought I'd visit the -Horse's- Tiger's Mouth.
Gettin' pretty cynical ... around these parts :)
I understand you didn't write the piece - you just read it and found it interesting and decided to share it. No problem with that.
why not angled roofs?
there is a reason for that you know- snow weight.
Ha! I sure as heck don't do PR for Johnsen Schmaling Architects.
I grew up in an Eichler https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/eichler%20haslacher
weve actually got some of the most interesting architecture in the country in the Phx.
Frank Llloyd Wright ring a bell?
Thank You "The Original Bankster" and "Dan8267" Just when I was beginning to feel like the gift I brought the Patrick.net community is a poison/lethal mushroom belong to the genus Amanita, i.e. the death cap ... you ride to my rescue ...
Love the cat in his tiny house ... more aesthetic than some tiny houses in the article I dragged into this commons ... and possibly roomier ...
Yes, Eichler homes only work in places where there's no snow, you get an A+ for the correct answer ... and I much admire the Frank Llloyd Wright where you live or whereever they are to be found. I once traveled to see the Façade and tea room of the FLW Japanese Imperial Hotel which now lives in a beautiful park along with other neat things ... we should all look so good at 100 http://mstecker.com/pages/japmmm-DSCF6600a.htm :)
Good "starter home" or nice place period exclamation mark
http://mashable.com/2014/08/04/tiny-houses/?utm_cid=mash-com-g+-pete-photo