Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Tiny homes, tremendous opportunity? Stephenville hopes so

Tiny homes, tremendous opportunity? Stephenville hopes so: The town of Stephenville on the west coast of Newfoundland is banking on a tiny trend to grow the community. It's amending a bylaw to shrink the minimum dwelling size to make way for a subdivision of small — very small — homes. Mayor Tom Rose said the town was approached by a developer interested

Monday, January 8, 2018

Sunday, January 7, 2018

Tiny house bookstore will travel around France

Tiny house bookstore will travel around France - Curbed: This tiny house is sleek and modern on the outside, and an intimate bookworm heaven on the inside. There, nearly 3,000 books await.

Gypsy Mermaid




Big Appliances Under the Stairs

Most of the designs for tiny houses have shelves under the stairs. This came from a house which I did not like overall, it was very white and things were in odd places. But, how would it work to have the appliances under the stairs? It is space which needs to be used and these are things which take up a generous amount of space in a small place. Still, I'm not sure how it would be from an engineering perspective. For one thing, a washing machine moves around and most appliances require water, soap, loading and unloading...

Dream tiny house comes with a pizza oven fireplace

Dream tiny house comes with a pizza oven fireplace - Curbed: The "Gypsy Mermaid" tiny house is full of delicious details. Have a look inside.

This is My Ideal Tiny House Design

So far, this is the design I like best for a tiny house. Although, this is actually a rented small house called a yurt and it is on stilts. They call it the Birdhouse.

Of course, it isn't exactly what I want. I don't like the artificial distressed wood and I don't think stilts would work so well in Ontario. Too likely to have racoons or skunks moving in under the house for me to try it.

Here are photos from the site. Reposting them because I keep forgetting where I left the link each time I want to see the photos of this house.