Tiny Houses - Can Someone Explain This To Me?

[Ted Striker]

We'll meet you up the end of the laneway, DD. Don't come down the property.

It's too bad you don't fight anymore.

[Skistack]

"We didn't think it would be this difficult," said Sheffield. "They don't tell you about this stuff on H.G.T.V."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...nada-1.4169986

This seems to be quite common. Great romantic idea, but the devil's in the details of the execution.

Unless you already have the land with proper zoning / large enough for no fucks given. Then why not just build a small house?

$110,000 for 280sf??

For fucks sake people.

[KQ]

"We didn't think it would be this difficult," said Sheffield. "They don't tell you about this stuff on H.G.T.V."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...nada-1.4169986

This seems to be quite common. Great romantic idea, but the devil's in the details of the execution.

Unless you already have the land with proper zoning / large enough for no fucks given. Then why not just build a small house?

These people downsized to a tiny house for their family of 4 then ended up building two free standing bedrooms.



‘We did it for our family’

Gabriella and Andrew Morrison in Ashland, Oregon

“We had moved into the perfect house that we’d been eyeing for years,” Gabriella Morrison, 47, recalls. “But six months into the big house, we noticed our family dynamics eroding.”

The couple wasn’t spending as much time with their two kids, then ages 11 and 14. The time together was “combative and strained,” she says. “Everyone scattered to opposite corners of the house.”

The financial burden was greater than anticipated for the self-employed couple, with increased stress and more hours spent working, even on weekends. Cleaning and upkeep of the larger house took more time too.

Intrigued by the tiny house movement, the Morrisons sold their home, their son went to boarding school in Colorado to pursue his passion of playing hockey and they took their daughter to live on the beach in Baja, Mexico, in a pop-up tent trailer.

They nearly gave up during the first 30 days. “Then we realized living with the least was the happiest we’d ever been,” Gabriella says.

Five years ago they bought five acres in the mountains near Ashland, Oregon, and built their own tiny home, spending roughly $8,000 for the trailer and $33,000 for materials, including appliances.

They’ve lived in their tiny home more than three years, with about 5 percent of the possessions they used to own. The house has a total of 317 square feet: 207 on the main floor and 110 in the lofts.

For the sake of privacy, they built sleeping cabins for their son, Paiute, now 20 and in college, and their daughter, Terra, 17, who just graduated from high school. Paiute’s is a 10-by-16-foot tree house and Terra’s space is 10 by 12 overlooking the hills.

“That big beautiful house just didn’t make sense anymore,” Gabriella says. “We’re creating our own definition of what home is for us.”

[skaredshtles]

These people downsized to a tiny house for their family of 4 then ended up building two free standing bedrooms.



‘We did it for our family’

Gabriella and Andrew Morrison in Ashland, Oregon

“We had moved into the perfect house that we’d been eyeing for years,” Gabriella Morrison, 47, recalls. “But six months into the big house, we noticed our family dynamics eroding.”

The couple wasn’t spending as much time with their two kids, then ages 11 and 14. The time together was “combative and strained,” she says. “Everyone scattered to opposite corners of the house.”

These people were fucking morons. A tween and teenager? No shit it was combative and strained. It's kind of normal for the age. God people are dumb.

[digitaldeath]

We'll meet you up the end of the laneway, DD. Don't come down the property.

Ya, by the mailbox?

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[Kopi_Red]

These people were fucking morons. A tween and teenager? No shit it was combative and strained. It's kind of normal for the age. God people are dumb.

My thoughts exactly.

[BCMtnHound]

These people were fucking morons. A tween and teenager? No shit it was combative and strained. It's kind of normal for the age. God people are dumb.

My thoughts exactly.

Hey, congrats to the kids! Intelligence must have skipped a generation - one got to spend their teenage years on the beach in the Baha, the other to play hockey without overbearing parents. Doubt their streak will last, however, but maybe the trust fund runs deep.

[fatnslow]

We'll this is a generation that pays $9 for a latte and scone daily while unable to pay student loan payments. Why would spending $30-40k for a glorified camper surprise anyone.

[concretejungle]

I'm still waiting for garden sheds to catch on.

https://www.studio-shed.com/

[Vt-Freeheel]

The first pic is of what used to be called a "Park trailer".
Main functional difference between a park trailer and the more conventional RV below is that a park trailer is made to be parked in a trailer park 99.9% of the time, and thus omits water and black water holding tanks along with any semblance of roadworthy or aerodynamic design.

A lot of local ordinances and covenants specifically prohibit "park trailers", along with RVs and mobile homes, in areas not zoned for such...

Be quiet, bitch!

We'll this is a generation that pays $9 for a latte and scone daily while unable to pay student loan payments. Why would spending $30-40k for a glorified camper surprise anyone.

I am thinking of spec building a tiny house for a winter project. Out of 650 million I know I can find a buyer for a spendy "park model".

[XXX-er]

I'm guessing the same thing you would do with anything that has some sort of value that you don't want/need anymore. Sell it.

Yeah, it's probably a little more complicated than selling a lawnmower on CL, but I'm sure it's not rocket surgery.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...nada-1.4169986

apparently it might be more complicated than rocket surgery

[old goat]

These people downsized to a tiny house for their family of 4 then ended up building two free standing bedrooms.



‘We did it for our family’

Gabriella and Andrew Morrison in Ashland, Oregon

“We had moved into the perfect house that we’d been eyeing for years,” Gabriella Morrison, 47, recalls. “But six months into the big house, we noticed our family dynamics eroding.”

The couple wasn’t spending as much time with their two kids, then ages 11 and 14. The time together was “combative and strained,” she says. “Everyone scattered to opposite corners of the house.”

The financial burden was greater than anticipated for the self-employed couple, with increased stress and more hours spent working, even on weekends. Cleaning and upkeep of the larger house took more time too.

Intrigued by the tiny house movement, the Morrisons sold their home, their son went to boarding school in Colorado to pursue his passion of playing hockey and they took their daughter to live on the beach in Baja, Mexico, in a pop-up tent trailer.

They nearly gave up during the first 30 days. “Then we realized living with the least was the happiest we’d ever been,” Gabriella says.

Five years ago they bought five acres in the mountains near Ashland, Oregon, and built their own tiny home, spending roughly $8,000 for the trailer and $33,000 for materials, including appliances.

They’ve lived in their tiny home more than three years, with about 5 percent of the possessions they used to own. The house has a total of 317 square feet: 207 on the main floor and 110 in the lofts.

For the sake of privacy, they built sleeping cabins for their son, Paiute, now 20 and in college, and their daughter, Terra, 17, who just graduated from high school. Paiute’s is a 10-by-16-foot tree house and Terra’s space is 10 by 12 overlooking the hills.

“That big beautiful house just didn’t make sense anymore,” Gabriella says. “We’re creating our own definition of what home is for us.”

Hard to see some guy name Paiute in the NHL.

[VTeton]

Now I know what to call bad versions of that, I had no idea what it was properly called before. I've seen it well done, but most of it is Shit Lap.

Shiplap works in beach houses.

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[fastfred]

The reason it's on a mobile platform is to avoid the pesky expense & code reqts that foundations require

it also allows you to park it in places that might otherwise require an environmental review for a permanent structure

and you could potentially build it in a favorable location (for fabrication), then move it to its eventual home (off-grid or waaay out from town)

yeah but every town and hoa is catching on and pretty much outlawing them
or at least making them confrom to basic codes such as driveway and septic, so after you dump 100k into the stupid thing you have to come up with 20 k for a septic
but some towns are allowing developers to create little tiny home subdivisions, the funny thing is they used to be called trailer parks, I wonder what these places will look like in ten years, with run down ratty poorly built shacks


I think tiny homes are pretty fucking stupid, and to put 9,000 lbs on a trailer and tow it around, wtf?
it's a fad

[Timberridge]

I never got the built in bed thing, just putting the fitted sheet on requires a mechanical engineering degree and 5 busted knuckles.

[Viva]

Hard to see some guy name Paiute in the NHL.

Unless he played for the Blackhawks, maybe.

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[bagtagley]

Full time with kids, no fucking way. But, I really want to buy some land in the mountains. We wouldn't be able to build on it for a long time, but a little shack on wheels and an outhouse would be a way to enjoy the place until we could build a real house. Be easy and relatively cheap to build something that we could sleep and eat in. I don't live in trendo-land, so nobody's cracking down on anything. Even a yurt would be more difficult, red-tape wise, than a house on wheels here.

[VTeton]

I never got the built in bed thing, just putting the fitted sheet on requires a mechanical engineering degree and 5 busted knuckles.

It's long and narrow and an overflow guest room. The guests do the changing of sheets if they wanna stay. Probably gets 20-30 nights use a summer. It's beats them sleeping on the concrete floor.

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[muted]

Shiplap works in beach houses.

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Yes, looks great! Double glory holes are sweet, too. (Could be smaller, IMO. More discreet that way.)

[BmillsSkier]

Apparently this is now a thing to do also:

Is that from the Dèrelicte Collection?

Pretty sure you can find that exact piece in just about any rural shithole. Might have to clean the mice and meth out of it though.

Bro-sheds, man.

Old friend back in Ohio started building something like that and showed me the rabbit hole of ideas he found himself in on of all things, Pinterest. Some pretty cool sheds for sure. Many of them kinda reminded me of how Pok Pok got started in PDX, just continually adding to the thing.

These people downsized to a tiny house for their family of 4 then ended up building two free standing bedrooms.



‘We did it for our family’

Gabriella and Andrew Morrison in Ashland, Oregon

“We had moved into the perfect house that we’d been eyeing for years,” Gabriella Morrison, 47, recalls. “But six months into the big house, we noticed our family dynamics eroding.”

The couple wasn’t spending as much time with their two kids, then ages 11 and 14. The time together was “combative and strained,” she says. “Everyone scattered to opposite corners of the house.”

The financial burden was greater than anticipated for the self-employed couple, with increased stress and more hours spent working, even on weekends. Cleaning and upkeep of the larger house took more time too.

Intrigued by the tiny house movement, the Morrisons sold their home, their son went to boarding school in Colorado to pursue his passion of playing hockey and they took their daughter to live on the beach in Baja, Mexico, in a pop-up tent trailer.

They nearly gave up during the first 30 days. “Then we realized living with the least was the happiest we’d ever been,” Gabriella says.

Five years ago they bought five acres in the mountains near Ashland, Oregon, and built their own tiny home, spending roughly $8,000 for the trailer and $33,000 for materials, including appliances.

They’ve lived in their tiny home more than three years, with about 5 percent of the possessions they used to own. The house has a total of 317 square feet: 207 on the main floor and 110 in the lofts.

For the sake of privacy, they built sleeping cabins for their son, Paiute, now 20 and in college, and their daughter, Terra, 17, who just graduated from high school. Paiute’s is a 10-by-16-foot tree house and Terra’s space is 10 by 12 overlooking the hills.

“That big beautiful house just didn’t make sense anymore,” Gabriella says. “We’re creating our own definition of what home is for us.”

It's stories like these that are the Oregon equivalent of "Floridaman"

LOL!! I pulled that off the internet. Been hit & miss with uploaded pics (thanks porn thread!) so I didn't bother taking a pic and trying. It basically looks like that. Cedar siding with Flood finish.

Heh. I grew up with the son of the owner of Flood Co., and between him and the son of the founder of Little Tykes, there were some terribly epic parties.

Flood makes a hell of a product though.

[reckless toboggan]

Is that from the Dèrelicte Collection?

You can "Dèrelicte" my bureau.

[iceman]

Is that from the Dèrelicte Collection?

sfunneh.

[Alaskan Rover]

I think the OP pic pretty much answers the question of why not just get a 5th wheel. I would have added a decent porch, tho....but that would add more weight and overhang length. Top pic looks classy. Bottom pic just looks National Lampoon Vacation.

[Alaskan Rover]

[frorider]

^^ that place is begging for a tornado.