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tiny houses
September 06 2016
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RHP User
9 years ago
is not big or fancy but its home. I rent due to my financial status. Its always full of love and laughter and I have a nice garden too so Im happy. Lovely question xx
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RHP User
9 years ago
how tiny is 'tiny'? Some of the container houses I've seen in design blogs/competitions are very clever, I wouldn't want to live in one full time, just as a "here's a home space for you that is convenient". But the things I like to do/use take up a lot of space so that just doesn't work - unless "tiny house plus large workshop/warehouse" is an option ;)
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RHP User
9 years ago
Originally a photography studio it is situated at hue bottom of a reasonably large garden. It has floor to ceiling windows that make it seem I am actually in the garden . I have a housemate who lives in the house I also own on the same block. I love my little house redhot 666 Q
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couplefairride
9 years ago
Where would I put my clothes and shoes. Just too small for tall people. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
with a rooftop swimming pool on one building and BBQ garden area on the other....overlooking the harbour...best of both worlds....previously, a Studio in the same neighbourhood, with a balcony/harbour views....who wants a house, however tiny? Yes, the rent's steep, but no more than the interest payment on a $500,000 mortgage and I don't pay the rates or BC....and, no hassles with possessions...everything I own fits in my car.
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Paradisepair
9 years ago
Have spent time in one in the US, they're great for a couple, perfect for one but best suited to very zen folk who keep possessions to a minimum. That's not me. My shoes alone would clutter the place up...
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RHP User
9 years ago
whatever size house you live in, my strong advice would be to have space around you, as Q does. I'm in an apartment and privacy is a major issue. I thought the sound proofing was fine when I bought it, but it's not, and although I don't always let it stop me, it does slow down my activity, because it kind of puts you off your mojo if you know the neighbours can hear every moan and more. I'm loud so it's a problem. My dream is to one day live in a place with privacy so I can host parties, it sucks not being able to do that, and the years are flying by. I want to do it all before I get too much older
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RHP User
9 years ago
I rent a pretty small house but has enough room for me. Very easy to keep clean, less cluttered with furniture and warms up very quickly in winter.
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RHP User
9 years ago
Yep, just dreaming about that today. I love my apartment but would love to have a little garden and maybe a pet. I don't feel it's fair to the animal to have them in apartments. Dreaming dreaming dreaming....
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RHP User
9 years ago
Maybe some should use GOOGLE to view them... I DO NOT think the OP was talking about small average houses..... TO answer the question.."Yep..." So long as I had it a LONG way from people :)
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RHP User
9 years ago
Who knew ...there is a Tiny House movement..I googled 😀 Q
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RHP User
9 years ago
I love them and the whole idea of living an inexpensive and uncluttered life. But I don't know if I could actually do it. I have seen some located far away from other neighbours on large blocks with huge decks that double as the main living area....I loved the look/idea of those ones.
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MsJonesy
9 years ago
There's a tiny house movement, and there is a tv series as well on free tv, can't remember the channel. Could I live in one...hmm...probably not the tiny ones - they can be around 175 sq feet. But the ones which are about double that, yep that is doable!
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MsJonesy
9 years ago
I much prefer the tiny house movement to the McMansion movement.
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RHP User
9 years ago
I moved straight from my childhood home into our home. It's a pretty big two storey house. And all we've done is fill it with stuff! It takes a lot of time to clean, and then we have a large yard too which requires a lot of maintenance. I'd use love to spend less time maintaining things and more time enjoying just being. Having small children makes it hard - my minis are little tornadoes and need the space. But when they grow up I would love a little place close to everything, and maybe a tiny tree house in a rainforest to escape to 😉
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RHP User
9 years ago
In the three bedroom house here by myself ,I certainly did not need all that space I just filled it up with stuff. Q
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davidex46x
9 years ago
Yep I could definitely live in a tiny house. Even in a small motorhome so long as it's got both toilet and shower as well as solar system to be completely off the grid. I don't have much stuff and everything I own fits in my car therefore a small space suits me just fine. :) - Posted from rhpmobile
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DynamicCouple36
9 years ago
MrD has designed many houses & hotels in his lifetime. The smallest house, in double brick which was then rendered in an Italian stucco finish , only measured 8.5 M x 5.5 M It was such a cute little house. Despite its size, it had a huge fireplace, and open plan lounge, dining & kitchen, and then a bedroom & en-suite on the mezzanine level. It cost the equivalent of around $40 000 to build . We, as a species have become spoilt. We really don't need huge houses to survive. Something simpler, cosier is better we feel - Posted from rhpmobile
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DynamicCouple36
9 years ago
MrD has designed many houses & hotels in his lifetime. The smallest house, in double brick which was then rendered in an Italian stucco finish , only measured 8.5 M x 5.5 M It was such a cute little house. Despite its size, it had a huge fireplace, and open plan lounge, dining & kitchen, and then a bedroom & en-suite on the mezzanine level. It cost the equivalent of around $40 000 to build . We, as a species have become spoilt. We really don't need huge houses to survive. Something simpler, cosier is better we feel - Posted from rhpmobile
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Dryphuz
9 years ago
I don't like studio apartments. I need separation between my indoor spaces, But other than that i like small and cozy. I don't need a lot of space and maintenance is easier. Kitchens can be too small though. Sometimes you need room to make something and a tiny galley kitchen with not enough counter space can cause problems.
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ReyandJean
9 years ago
We're going mobile for most of 2017 in a 14' caravan with kids. Certainly need the outdoors when living space is that small. And curse rainy days. My surfboards and tools alone would about fill up a tiny house. I guess I'm not minimalist enough to do it. Mr R
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RHP User
9 years ago
My marriage broke down.....and up until August last year, I had everything I owned contained inside a 36" sleeper cab of a kenworth..... That's about as wide as a single bed..... - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Just sold my 3 story converted warehouse in North Melbourne that I built. Bought a 2 bed 2 bath apartment in Docklands with sweeping water views looking back to the city skyline. Before Nth Melb lived in an apartment on the 23rd floor in the CBD, so its sort of returning to an apartment and I love it. Plenty of space, a pool and gym and very sound proof Best of all no house maintenance and quick to clean so more spare time to do all the things I love. If you have a big house you can end up being a slave to it.
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RHP User
9 years ago
One bed bungalow but living space is similar to that expected of a two bedroom, and spabath. Also, heaps of outdoor space and privacy. But that's the country for you. I view the location as a benefit, most view it as a hindrance. That's why costs are higher in the city. But in the city you may have access to higher wages. You just have to decide based on your own priorities. And if you're happy, ignore "advice" from people who suggest a place you are happy in is not good enough. My friends that have visited love my place, as I do, but not everyone will. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Candy, that's my dream too! Dream dream
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RHP User
9 years ago
...I'd be happy in a small home, so long as it feels comfy really. After all, when I work away I live in a small room with ensuite that I call home for 2 weeks....but it feels comforting. Especially sitting outside it, warming up to the morning sun or to the cool evenings in the Pilbara.My home in Perth is small...what is called a Villa...but for a single man with no dependants, it's lavish really.And you know what the best bit about it is? It's mine to mould. When I decided that the beige walls just weren't me, then I painted them sky-blue and white. Much more me. And the little courtyard needed some plants, so I sorted that.I love growing things.A garage to tinker in and my simple needs are met. I've done the building-a-4-bedroom-house-in-suburbia thing before, and I'm glad that's out of my system now. It was excessive and unnecessary...simple is the way to live.
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RHP User
9 years ago
Other things in play why I'm where I am, but will happily move into the shoe box, so long as it has a yard.
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RHP User
9 years ago
Quoting 'MsJonesy' I much prefer the tiny house movement to the McMansion movement. On the farm we had the old original homestead with 10 rooms, it was lovely house and is now over 100 years old and undergoing extensive post earthquake repairs. Even before the earthquakes it was very maintenance intensive, so my rose coloured glasses have long since been thrown out, small houses have a lot going for them.
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RHP User
9 years ago
...a long, long time ago, when I was married, my then wife, step-daughter, two cats and I travelled around Oz in a 30 foot J model Bedford bus that had been converted into a home by a boat-builder. The bus' name was Bobby Bedford and he had his own shower and toilet, TV, Video, Stereo, 4 burner stove/oven...and a double-size island bed with shag pile carpet and wood panelled bedroom...air-con and a generator too, so we were completely self-contained...and because the ex was a hippy at heart, we towed a Kombi so we didn't have to take the bus everywhere. We stopped wherever we felt like it...picked fruit when we needed money and I'm a handy fisherman...my step-daughter was on correspondence which worked fine and I taught her maths by making her responsible for all budgetary decisions related to travel costs etc...happiest 4 years of a 14 year marriage.
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RHP User
9 years ago
...as a trucker you'll appreciate this...Bobby was powered by a 6 cylinder, Bedford 300 Petrol motor...operated via a 5 speed crash-box...and no exhaust braking....one night coming down a hill in the Southern Highlands I missed a gear and couldn't grab anything after that....thankfully the road continued on straight at the bottom of the hill, which we hit at over 60 m.p.h.
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RHP User
9 years ago
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RHP User
9 years ago
I'm currently in the process of simplifying my life and moving from a 4 x 2 with a study & 2 living areas into a 70 SQM tiny house 😊 I have agonised over this for ages, and a few weeks ago I realised that I haven't even walked into 70% of my house in months! Well except to dust & Vacumn! And who needs that! lol It's not tiny house as in those cute ones I've been researching haha it's gorgeous with 13ft ceilings and built from limestone inside & out, with a lovely alfresco & garden to nanna about in 😊 but I plan on seeing how I go in my version of "going tiny". I'm conditioning my self to make the big leap to a true tiny house. So I have 5 weeks to free myself of the great majority of my domestic worldly possessions 😳 Hitting those buy & sell pages like no ones business haha! I thought it would be hard to part with "stuff" that I have spent so much money on and a life time collecting, but no! It's cathartic! And as my awesome friend said to me "you've had the enjoyment of the This stuff, while you've had it". And I realised that he was oh so right! I'm being ruthless. If I don't love it, it's gone! I'm looking forward to the womanly chores taking me an hour instead of a weekend 😊 Time to have the time to have a life. Anyone got any ingenious ideas on how I am going to fit my 387 pairs of shoes in? 😃 RR 💋
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RHP User
9 years ago
Hence the term "Angel gear" as you're pretty much in the hands of them when that happens lol What an awesome setup masculine :)
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RHP User
9 years ago
I like space. If I had to live in a tiny "house", Id choose a 3 bed tent in the bush. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
...I forgot to add that Bob had a full length annexe as well...storage bins meant we could furnish it comfortably as an outdoor lounge room when we wanted to set up camp...and inside everything was built for space as only a boat-builder can do. The passenger seat up-front was a leather reclining arm chair and my step-daughter laid claim to it from day One. She'd put her feet up on the dash an the cats would curl up and sleep on it in the sun while we were in transit...although one day one of them needed a wee and jumped out the window while we were tootling along at relaxed 40 m.p.h....thankfully, as all cats do, she landed o her feet and took off into the scrub... I paid the princely sum of $10,500 for the rig in 1990.
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Tall74nHard9
9 years ago
Quoting 'Rubenesque_Red' Anyone got any ingenious ideas on how I am going to fit my 387 pairs of shoes in? 😃 RR 💋 Roof racks ??? Tall
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RHP User
9 years ago
I just discovered a TV program at 4pm today on channel 94 called Tiny House Big Living Q
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RHP User
9 years ago
a 3 x 1 with 3 teenagers and a greyhound, so I think I'm doing it already. We have a lot of outdoor space though as I'm on a big block. I really like the tiny house movement and would love a tiny cottage on a bush block one day when my kids have flown the coop.
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Tall74nHard9
9 years ago
Erm, something lost in translation.What is a "3x1" ? I hope you don't mean metres.... That would be too ridiculous. Tall
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RHP User
9 years ago
Quoting 'Tall_n_Hard' Erm, something lost in translation.What is a "3x1" ? I hope you don't mean metres.... That would be too ridiculous. Tall I thought it was fairly standard vernacular.
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MissRedFox
9 years ago
I love the idea of a tiny home and living with the bare essentials But I personally think it would work much better as a single or couple rather than with children - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Quoting 'Keepitsimple72'I thought it was fairly standard vernacular. It is here in the West
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RHP User
9 years ago
Yes, as long as it was on a bit of land, hopefully by some water.. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Quoting 'Hank_E_Panky' Quoting 'Keepitsimple72'I thought it was fairly standard vernacular. It is here in the West My bad.
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Tall74nHard9
9 years ago
Thanks for translation. Might be standard terms in the West, but not so East side.We still do it longhand eg 3 bed 1 bath. Cheers, Tall
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RHP User
9 years ago
3bedroom 2 bath but that don't bother me.I have to have a garage/ shed so I can build or repairnow that is my main space its a man thing.
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RHP User
9 years ago
I live in a two person tent for the best part of 6 moths every years as ride a bike around the world Small n simple best way to go Then I sail on 60foot yacht to Antartica for the half of the year And I go with out hot water showers etc , it's a freezing cold sponge bath Love it - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
We did cheap and tiny to save and buy our own. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
A home is what you make it. Small or big...a tent or a cardboard box... - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Bakacha rd is where a tiny house is redy for u all - Posted from rhpmobile
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