Tiny Houses - And the Big Brains that like them

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Recon said:
How about a house in a silo, or a Yurt?
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Yurts sound pretty cool. They're used in places where the weather can be pretty extreme, so they're obviously built for that.

I never heard of living in a silo.

(I recently made DDG the default search engine after I saw a video demonstrating how Google manipulates search results.)
 
@ToroidalBoat A silo house.
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I figured out google is manipulating image results the other day, I posted about it in the TDS thread.
The hype is real.
 
No see none of you get it because you don't understand the hipster mindset. the tiny house is to make you feel like a world-conscious member of the consumer class so you can have your 10 acre property or your big-ass lawn that takes 200 gallons a day to water in high summer and not feel bad about it!
 
The best and greatest said:
No see none of you get it because you don't understand the hipster mindset. the tiny house is to make you feel like a world-conscious member of the consumer class so you can have your 10 acre property or your big-ass lawn that takes 200 gallons a day to water in high summer and not feel bad about it!
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In that regard even the hipsters can be seen in terms of glorious optimization: less house means more lawn to water. Now you too can stake your part in man-mad drought- regardless if you have a measly quarter acre property, you can have a big fifth-acre yard.
 
I don't believe for a second that the people involved in these things don't have a storage rental somewhere, thus negating everything. I've lived in a small space, it's shit. Even if you only keep the things you need, junk adds up fast.
 
Eh. I kinda get the appeal.

I've always wanted to live in some obscure location with a mix of rustic and modern technology. I hope this doesn't mean I'm a hippie :o
I'd say the trick is to not make it too"tiny", don't get too wierd with the layout and don't go too far from society to ensure supply runs don't take too long.

I seriously hope this isn't something elite pushed though. (Why would they want people living outside of the megacities?) That instantly turns anything to shit.

Ps. @Recon Your examples are cool :)
I google imaged yurts and they're awesome.
 
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I appreciate elegance in design and some of these things are beautifully designed to optimize space, I like them for that if nothing else. However most of them are amateur hour compared to just buying an RV where actual professionals are designing it. For example, in that video the bed is a murphy bed that folds up when not in use. And...that's it. You're left with a small empty patch of floor where it was, but the space isn't actually usable for anything else. Whereas for an RV, a bed usually turns into a couch, bare minimum, and I've seen some where a bed can turn into a couch, chairs, or a table. The sleeping space will turn into a workable living space when someone's not sleeping in it. It would've been easy sauce for the bed in that video to have a drop-down table on the underside, so when you fold the bed up you can fold a table down and then have a slightly more functional space.
 
From time to time I check up on the tiny house community, it's of interest because tiny house is pretty much a friggebod but made by different people for different reasons.
A friggebod? Yes, that's what the law defining exemptions for building/planning permits is called. You know about that American thing where people can't drink in public but the police can't fucking arrest every hobo and teenager so if the the booze is in a bag then they look the other way? The friggebod is the house building equivalent of brown bagging booze, the govt had to make a legal exemption because it was just not possible to control Swedish men's beaver like instinct to build.

This is an older and largely traditional version that a dad would knock out in a week back in the early 80's, nothing fancy and red with white trimmings is like the salt and pepper of Swedish house aesthetics and it is applied instinctively.
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It gets classier though
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(I hope this one isn't a urinal)
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Only an idiot would want to live in them though, that's not what they are made for.
 
Least Concern said:
What are they made for, then?
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There are people that build a lot of bird houses and some people build bird houses that can fit humans. What do they have in common? Carpentry and craftsmanship.

Why would someone build a bunch of tiny houses on the back lawn of their perfectly fine house, 10 feet from the veranda? Some men just wants to see the world flooded with tiny houses, because they are bored and have the tools to make it a reality.

(I'm half joking, but it's an old joke about men building those tiny houses until they didn't have any space left to build them on and that really stressed them out, a sort of junkie/hoarder situation)
 
oldTireWater said:
I've been interested in them for a while now. I'd like to use one as a stationary, seasonal cabin on some land I've got. Trailers suck because they rot into the earth if they're left unattended, but a framed tiny house could be pretty durable. The biggest problem I've got is not being able to see a variety in person. There are still relatively few around, and I'm not going to cross three states to take a look at a"maybe".
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I'm in the same situation and have seriously considered buying a couple 20' high cube containers and some rafters. Build the house stuff (kitchen, bathroom, bunkrooms) in the containers and then have a 20x20 covered patio between the 2 containers. I saw a couple guys build temporary workshops with 40' high cubes and really liked the idea.
 
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