How about a really small house.....

[ElizabethMO]

Maybe this lady has a good idea...

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=8 ... 38&cache=1

[dwgriff1]

My ancient computer doesn't do video.

What did I miss? I am really into small houses!

dave

[PaulC]

Elizabeth, if you like that idea maybe you should look here
http://www.butlerprojects.com/other/grandcabin/index.htm

Cheers
Paul

[mikeschn]

That's a cute house. Very similar to the one Jay Schafer did...



Here's some more of Jay's houses...

http://tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

Mike...

[dwgriff1]

We are going to drasically downsize one day, and I offered to build my wife a house larger than a spendy motorhome.

Millions of full time rv people do with less!

dave

[halfdome, Danny]

So what happens if she wants a family? Danny

[Podunkfla]

So what happens if she wants a family? Danny

Add a room... or two? Tandem trailers? Kids in a tent?
Err... Maybe she's not into the family thing? Or even guys, for that matter?

[Jiminsav]

they sell what they call RV's just like that in south carolina.
ready to roll, for 30 thousand dollars.

[Jiminsav]

here's an example..and it's a COPPER top too..

[asianflava]

She sounds like a kook to me. IMHO

[wolfix]

The last 2 years I have looked into small homes..... The original house of the Small House Society is down the road from me... Being single I have determined that I want about 375 feet........ With a much larger garage... The best small houses I have came across are the Katrina Cottages. I live in a large studio apartment now and like it much better then any house I have ever owned. My utility bills are tiny.

http://www.cusatocottages.com/index_content.html

[gailkaitschuck]

I was talking about Tumbleweed homes with a friend of mine who grew up here in the south. He pointed out these looked exactly like "shotgun" houses, the most popular home in the south from the end of the Civil War through the 1920's. Most were no wider than 12 feet.

He was right. When I ride my bike to work, I take the less traveled roads through an older neighborhood (many houses built in the late 1890's through the 1920's) and pass by a number of shotgun homes, most of them still being used.

Gail

[lanego]

I've been visiting Tumbleweeds Tiny Houses for a couple of years now. They have even lifted their pre-built houses with a crane to top a waiting garage . Home and shop.
I also have old brochures/floorplans on the starter house kits you used to order from Sears back at the early part of the 20th century. You can find reproductions on-line. These came tiny to large.

[gailkaitschuck]

Shotgun homes are now "in" www.bywater.org/Arch/shotgun.htm

When I first moved to the south, I was introduced to these as Augusta's version of "slum landlord" investment; many were used as rental properties, often renting for a little as $35 - $50 a month. No air conditioning, poor plumbing and disasterous wiring. We typically lost a few each winter (along with their tenants) when their only heat (space heaters) caught a curtain on fire.

You can still purchase some for under $15,000 in my town.

Gail

[TRAIL-OF-TEARS]

My Mother-In-Law lives (about 12 years now) in a 16 foot travel trailer. She likes it she says she can make breakfast and she doesn't even have to get out of bed. However, it is hard to have company because most people do not know how to negotiate the 2.5' hole in the floor by the front door.