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Any of you watching those tiny house TV shows?
2015 Jan 5, 11:25am 2,818 views 9 comments
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Dan8267
2015 Jan 5, 2:20pm
Shacks with a nice coat of pant over it. Give a few more decades and the nice coat of paint will be "too expensive" for the common man and our middle class will live like Kowloon Walled City.
Welcome to the future. Full of cozy homes.
Vicente
2015 Jan 5, 2:47pm
I never knew there were TV shows, I'll have to see if there are streamable copies as I don't have a TV.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine to sporadically read Tiny House blogs.
Your typical subdivision every 5th house is identical. Ever see that in Tiny Houses?
The attraction is it's hand-crafted and YOURS. Built exactly to your tastes and specifications, not mass consumption. That really appeals to me.
Also scale. Nobody would tackle building a 737 in their garage, but plenty of people build kitplanes. The scale of the job is small enough a single person could reasonably do it without killing themselves or quitting their day jobs.
The reason they are built on wheels has to do with zoning restrictions. Most areas will not LET you build a house on foundation below a certain square footage. So you skirt a lot of requirements by putting it on wheels.
inflection point
2015 Jan 5, 6:20pm
Hey Dan8267, Those pictures look like the high density housing they are building all over here in California. You been doing aerial photograpy over cali?
zzyzzx
2015 Jan 8, 5:52pm
I just found one more:
Tiny House Nation
http://www.fyi.tv/shows/tiny-house-nation
Tiny Houses Are About To Invade Your TV Starting This Week
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3032750/tiny-houses-are-about-to-invade-your-tv-starting-this-week
zzyzzx
2015 Jan 9, 7:45am
I doubt you'll get many Gen X'ers or Gen Y'ers to go that route because they all still feel entitled to have their McMansions.
The ones on the TV shows I have seen so far are mostly Gen X'ers or Gen Y'ers, because they know it's the only house that they are ever going to afford.
RWSGFY
2015 Jan 9, 8:23am
Welcome to the future. Full of cozy homes.
Is that from a movie?
No, it's a real thing in HK. Or rather was a real thing until it got demolished.
Malkovich
2015 Jan 13, 6:08am
There is an interesting documentary about it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w
Tiny House Hunters
http://www.hgtv.com/shows/tiny-house-hunters
Tiny House Builders
http://www.hgtv.com/shows/tiny-house-builders
Tiny House, Big Living
http://www.hgtv.com/shows/tiny-house-big-living
I am not sure if I have seen any episodes of Tiny House, Big Living, but the other two are pretty good. For the tiny house builders, at least in every episode I have seen, they are always built to be mobile; I wonder why they just don't buy a RV instead. For the people who live in places where real estate is expensive, I understand, otherwise, not so much. I could not fit all my tools into one of those houses.
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