Gram Harris - Tiny House Living: Your Mini Guide to Making Best of Your Tiny Home with Building Tips and Decorating Ideas

Tiny House Living

Your Mini Guide to Making Best of Your Tiny Home with Building Tips and Decorating Ideas

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Y ou usually dont begin a book that is supposed to be promoting something by highlighting all of its problems in your introduction! But to be as transparent and nonbiased as possible in our overview of what Tiny House living has to offer, we wanted to dispel the most negative rumors and innuendo swirling around the Tiny Home phenomenon. Since tiny homes began their most recent incarnation in the 1980s under the direction of architect Lester Walker, they have been routinely derided and ridiculed. Critics in Walkers day told him rather bluntly that his idea would never catch on; we see today that these critics have been roundly disproven.

But even though the popularity of tiny homes has soared, the criticism remains. And the charge that is most often leveled at the tiny house is that they are structurally unsound and unsafe. It was to remedy this charge that a group of small home enthusiasts formed the American Tiny House Association in 2015. This group was galvanized in light of such critiques and became determined to promote the tiny house as a viable and socially acceptable mode of living. And in order to bridge this gulf the Tiny House Association sought out partnerships with local governmental agencies to come to a comprehensive understanding of just how zoning and coding enforcement policies should be shaped in regard to the tiny house.

It was out of these many discussions that it was determined that the biggest problem that tiny house enthusiasts faced was not the structure of the houses themselves, but being able to have a safe and stable place to put the house after it was built. The primary concern in light of their findings was the zoning regulations that put a cap in the square footage of what can be considered a habitable home. According to these laws tiny houses do not comprise enough square feet to be permanently parked on a foundation in a residential area.

It was because of this same problem that Lester Walker first had the ingenious idea to put the tiny house on the wheels of a trailer bed. That way it would be considered a mobile home and could be safely parked under that classification. But even this loophole has been confronted with considerable pushback in recent times and due to laws that view tiny houses as more akin to campers than houses, the tiny home has been in many instances banned and relegated to RV camps.

And in this chain of rejection even the RV camps are prone to look at the tiny home in disdain and many refuse them entrance. The tiny home like an orphaned child is being bounced around from institution to institution, classification to classification. It seems that in the end the major problem with a tiny house is just everyone elses perception of what it is. Even one of the largest manufacturers of tiny houses, tumbleweeds.com is not immune to this problem. They have classified and reclassified their tiny houses as many times. At first they labeled their homes as RVs enabling their buyers to secure RV loans to purchase the tiny homes. More recently however they have changed their official classification again, opting to label their merchandise as simply trailers. The biggest problem for tiny homes seems to be largely an identity problem.

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I n this chapter, you will learn:

• Essential tips for those who decide to buy a tiny house
• Where to start and where to buy the tiny house of your dreams

The first question that any potential Tiny House enthusiast is confronted with is whether or not they are going to build their house or if they are going to put themselves on the market to buy one from someone else. And if they are going to buy it, where are they going to go to make their purchase? A tiny house isnt something you can just purchase on Amazon. In order to make your first tiny house purchase you are going to have to broaden your horizons and dig a little bit deeper.

And in the depths of my own digging to find a tiny house I came across some wonderful resources; one of the best of them being tumbleweedhouses.com. This site has the full range of current tiny house models out on the market today. It ranges from the cheapest house that hovers around $35,000 and the much more expensive luxury liner tiny homes that cost quite a pretty penny more. In the $35,000 range the most popular tiny house by far is that of the XS-House This house although fairly basic, still comes replete with amenities such as a desk, closets, bath, and even an under the counter refrigerator. Everything is conveniently compact and within reach.

The more expensive models that reach up into the $50,000 price bracket expand into greater features of comfort such as more kitchen space, a loft, a full bathroom, and stove top ovens. The most popular feature however, when we get up into these higher range models, is that of the bedroom loft. Yep, thats right; these tiny houses have just enough space to create an extra bedroom. It is rather convenient to have a loft just above you as an extra space for guests while the main bedroom is conveniently squared away down below. This house is a popular purchase because of its conventional house kind of feel; albeit a tiny one.

Another rather intriguing model known as the Cowboy Cabin is one that is great for those of your with a bit of a quirky side and who are looking for a rustic kind of feel. It comes complete with a back porch so you can sit out in your chairs and enjoy the countryside like the cowboy you are! Featuring single pane windows, corrugated roofing, and clapboard siding. The house is one of the best-selling models for the tiny house distributor known as Living Renaissance who regularly sells variations of this model.