Ideas for Your Tiny Home Space
How do you fit all of your possessions into a small domicile if you're used to spreading out across the dozen rooms of a McMansion?
While it's easy to advise tiny-house dwellers to "just cut down on the amount of stuff you own," it's actually a bit trickier for an American used to sprawling across a large house to enjoy life in a trailer or tiny house. Here are some tips for making small spaces work for you:
A storage shed or outdoor entertaining area is a lot less expensive to build and maintain than the same amount of space added to a house. http://www.utopian-villas.com
Also, for many people, tiny homes are built on wheels, to keep them technically legal in zoned areas. Adding a storage shed makes it easier and more affordable for more people to live sustain-ably.
While it's easy to advise tiny-house dwellers to "just cut down on the amount of stuff you own," it's actually a bit trickier for an American used to sprawling across a large house to enjoy life in a trailer or tiny house. Here are some tips for making small spaces work for you:
- Make every inch count.
- Get creative about storage.
- Keep your window-to-wall ratio high.
- Use semi-opaque materials to allow light into windowless rooms.
- Travel! Explore! Find other small space dwellings and visit!
- Enjoy the outdoors.
- Repurpose the closet.
- Add a pop of color!
- Keep lines and materials simple.
- Discover unexpected storage.
- Create a visual of the size space you wish to live in.
- Create storage out of load-bearing elements and lose those pesky walls.
- Install a breakfast bar.
A storage shed or outdoor entertaining area is a lot less expensive to build and maintain than the same amount of space added to a house. http://www.utopian-villas.com
Also, for many people, tiny homes are built on wheels, to keep them technically legal in zoned areas. Adding a storage shed makes it easier and more affordable for more people to live sustain-ably.
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Tiny Home Movement
Over the last 40 years, the average home in the United States has increased in size by more than 1,000 square feet, essentially doubling the amount of living space per person since 1973.
ut a decade ago, in the midst of the housing boom and explosion of outsized, luxury home construction in American suburbs (i.e., the "McMansion"), a quieter, smaller movement began to gain attention.
ut a decade ago, in the midst of the housing boom and explosion of outsized, luxury home construction in American suburbs (i.e., the "McMansion"), a quieter, smaller movement began to gain attention.
Smaller Spaces
While each of those benefits is helpful to any homeowner, they're especially valuable for an older adult who isn't up to taking on major home maintenance work, is on a fixed budget and both wants and may need the flexibility to adapt to whatever the future brings.