Who lives in a "tiny house"?

We have a neighbor who is a minimalist and building his own minimalist home. One room, hammock for a bed maybe 120 square feet all together. He is adding on a second room at this time but he has utilized every square foot that he has and has engineered the place to give himself optimal natural lighting and radiant heating. His only luxury is propane heat.

He eats off the land. Every square inch of his yard is planted with some sort of vegetable. He eats fish out of his pond and what most of us would consider weeds. Taking a walk with him on his property is an experiment in human grazing as he points out every edible plant and urges you to sample them.

So far our favorite is Wood Sorrel.

He never wears shoes in the summer and can be seen walking down our gravel road with is little dog. Definitely a different sort of lifestyle that I don't think I could hack but you have to respect the man's creativeness.

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Isn't it ironic that today most people would call your neighbor insane while most likely people who lived that way in the past would look at our wasteful and debt ridden lifestyles and call us the same.

I love these houses and applaud your ingenuity. Thanks for sharing your pics.

Tiny houses also have lower taxes.

As my neighbors pay 3500-5000 in taxes a year I pay 1100 a year in taxes. We look forward to retiring in a small 300 sf cabin with almost nothing.

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Our small cottage

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I have seen pictures of this but can you post them again please?

Jhambley, your home is adorable! I would love to see more pictures of it, too! Someday I hope to be able to replace my little entryway with a porch that goes across the whole front of the house the way that yours does. I would like to put windows in mine to make a 3 season sun porch so that I could have a place to start plants as our Winters up here are so long. I could extend my growing season some with such a porch even if it were only for small things.

Myheaven, I found the same thing to be true in my area. People in larger homes just blocks from mine pay 3K or more in taxes. Egads! That's a lot to think of having to cover in retirement years. My taxes are somewhere around 750.00. Much easy to manage!

It's a weight of my shoulders having a smaller tax bill.

Jhambley I'd love to see inside pics of it please.

I live in a stick-built shed type house 16x24. It is almost finished inside. The space is plenty for me and 2 dogs.
I love tiny houses, but smallish is ok too.

That's almost the size of mine (16 x 22) and I have two dogs, who are driving me crazy But they are in their puppy year (my houligan will be 8 months next week and my AB is 4 months). Do you have pics?

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'Scuse the mess, wasn't expecting company.
And I'm not sure why it's upside down...
That's the puppy. She's a good girl. The wiener dog is the one to watch out for.

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nice lovely pup I had to flip the laptop over to see, LOL. What woodstove is that? looks like one i had in a cabin a couple of years ago. need to install one here at some point.

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It's a Vermont Castings and it rocks!
I've had to crack a window at times with temps in the single digits outside.
Makes this peasant feel like a millionaire.

Nice

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I think I've seen this on the small home blog. That is one lovely home. I really like it.

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I really like your walls and stove, but that dog looks so comfortable.

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Very nice! Sure looks cozy! Love the wood stove and the pot on top. What was cooking? Soup? Stew?

It is actually warm enough today for the stove to stay cold,but I keep a pot of water on it at all times. It adds humidity. And heats my water for washing.
Thank you very much for the compliments.
I love my little home. The shell was built for me, but I did (ahem...am doing) everything else myself.
My puppy-girl is about the mellowest dog I've ever known. Her "big" brother, on the other hand...
Well, I love them each for their own qualities.
By the way, Angie, how do you do that?

16x20 for us, 2 adults, 2 kids (10,12) and 2 full size dogs. Just something to get us through the winter and it's done just that but cabin fever is setting in. At least for me. Not necessarily the size of the cabin but the long winter of being too nasty to go outside. Let me outta here, I've got a homestead to build and I ain't gettin' any younger.

Shouldn't complain. This is the biggest thing we've lived in since we moved out here 3 years ago. While we looked for property it was a tiny travel trailer supplemented by the box off a small box truck. Maybe about the same square foot but the cabin is more like a double wide shack. It's also insulated way better.

Man, the pictures are really putting the hurts to me, and cabin fever. I want to go see my cabin so bad,but Dh works so much ,takeing care of the road crew right now. We were going to go up north today, but we have more snow comeing. I need to take Pictures!