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Once you start looking, tiny houses are everywhere. They are the structures which resemble our childhood drawings: simple, symmetrical, human sized, single purposed. Bigger than a shed but smaller than a two-car garage, the one room tiny house might be an office, a study cabin, a little business or a guest room. It might have heat but no running water. A tiny house, a little house, an itty bitty house, a mini house: any way you describe it, little houses and hideaways are dear to our sense of proportion. A tiny house that can be lived in and includes heat, water and electricity, might be the size of a guest cottage in a vintage motor court. To design such a dwelling requires the utmost in efficiency and planning and begs the question, “How small a space could you live in and be satisfied?” (Henry David Thoreau wrote a book about it: “Walden Pond”) Frequently built by the land owner after the main structure, a tiny house is as much the completion of an idea as an afterthought. Sometimes the smaller house is built first; Thomas Jefferson built a tiny house to live in while building Monticello. A more recent version of this story is documented at sunriseacre.net. Hopefully these pages will show you simple, beautiful, little dreams come true. Write to housemaster@tinyhouses.net | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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