Would you move to a tiny home?

[Rasputin]

I could never do tiny.


Friday I'm moving from a 3100sf home to a 3700sf home. We need the extra bed room for the brady bunch gig I now have going. That being said I suspect in ten years we'll go down to 2000sf on the water somewhere.

My parents were planning to downsize once their nest got all empty, but it never quite happened.  They insist on being able to host multiple families even though mom gets all dramatic when it happens.  Also mom apparently still needs her sewing room even though she doesn't sew anymore.

I need a billiards room although I play only once a quarter...I like the look.

[crazy canuck]

We are in about 5400 square feet.  At first it felt monstrously big but now it seems about right.  When we were first married we had a 500 square foot condo.  That also seemed about right for that age and stage.  Not sure what will seem right in my next stage of life.

[Grey Fox]

We are in about 5400 square feet.  At first it felt monstrously big but now it seems about right.  When we were first married we had a 500 square foot condo.  That also seemed about right for that age and stage.  Not sure what will seem right in my next stage of life.

Did you keep the downstair kitchen afterall?

[crazy canuck]

We are in about 5400 square feet.  At first it felt monstrously big but now it seems about right.  When we were first married we had a 500 square foot condo.  That also seemed about right for that age and stage.  Not sure what will seem right in my next stage of life.

Did you keep the downstair kitchen afterall?

Yeah.  It seemed too much bother to rip it out just to save the extra property tax for having a "suite".   Plus having it there will probably make it easier to sell to someone who needs to use the suite as a mortgage helper. 

[Grey Fox]

Yeah, that's probably sensible.

[Josquius]

100 square feet sounds pretty reasonable to me. Not ideal, but perfectly liveable. Fairly similar to 6 tatami mats which describes a lot of 1 person flats in Japan. Some are smaller.

[Jacob]

100 square feet sounds pretty reasonable to me.

A 10' by 10' room sounds reasonable to you? For what?

[Gups]

100 square feet sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Just about room for a bed if the door opens outwards. Not much else.

[derspiess]

100 square feet sounds pretty reasonable to me. Not ideal, but perfectly liveable. Fairly similar to 6 tatami mats which describes a lot of 1 person flats in Japan. Some are smaller.

  I couldn't even fit all my camping stuff in that space.

[mongers]

I have a small cape. Four rooms downstairs and bathroom and two rooms upstairs, plus an unifinished cellar with a half bathroom. It's just me and it's more than enough for me, I could make do with a smaller house, but still it's a smaller house compared to the larger homes that are usually built. I'm fine with the size as it takes less to heat and cool the home, less to keep clean. I also have two sheds out back that contain the various gardening tools, outdoor stuff, snow blower and lawnmower. So I do need a good amount of storage space but I'm also constantly getting rid of stuff, though it's too easy to add more stuff too.

This does seem to be a problem with a lot of people as they near our ages; where does all this stuff come form ? 

I really do need to have a clear out, Again. 

[Liep]

100 square feet sounds pretty reasonable to me. Not ideal, but perfectly liveable. Fairly similar to 6 tatami mats which describes a lot of 1 person flats in Japan. Some are smaller.

But in Japan it's nice and cheap to eat out almost anywhere. Not so much anywhere else on earth, people need kitchens.

[crazy canuck]

100 square feet sounds pretty reasonable to me. Not ideal, but perfectly liveable. Fairly similar to 6 tatami mats which describes a lot of 1 person flats in Japan. Some are smaller.

But in Japan it's nice and cheap to eat out almost anywhere. Not so much anywhere else on earth, people need kitchens.

What he is talking about is a place to sleep but no toilet, washroom, shower/bath, or kitchen. 

[Warspite]

I like how the rest of the civilised world uses a measurement of area to measure the area of a property, whereas in the UK we have to bloody well guess on the basis of the number of bedrooms, which are often a larger room that has been cut in two to inflate the number of "bedrooms". 

[mongers]

I like how the rest of the civilised world uses a measurement of area to measure the area of a property, whereas in the UK we have to bloody well guess on the basis of the number of bedrooms, which are often a larger room that has been cut in two to inflate the number of "bedrooms". 

We did have a civilised measure once, when my old man was building estates of houses the expectation was to design for 9 or 10 houses per acre. Now I think 14 houses is very common/the norm and some 'developers' are pushing it to 16. And God only knows how many flats they cram into those edge of city/town centres flat complexes.

I think in England we have some of the worst designed, smallest new built homes/flats in Western Europe.   

[Razgovory]

I don't think I want to live in a house on stilts.  Or one that can be stolen.