Sometimes half a house is better than none — both in Cambodia in a divorce settlement and in the US as the tiny house movement takes hold.
He came with family while local officials watched as he sawed the family home of 18 years in half. His former wife was left with approximately 10 by 12 feet. Half a house
Coincidentally here in America, there was a feature today in the Providence Journal about the tiny house – 84 square feet made of knotty pine and built for $10,000. Steven Kurutz, of the New York Times has been reporting on tiny houses.
Can’t live with each other: Ironically, I keep hearing from couples these days who love each, can’t live without each other, but can’t live with each other. This could be the answer – two tiny houses on one big lot. The problem of course would be in finding a piece of property that two people might agree to call their “homes.”
Although one devotee of the small house movement may have what many consider to be an ideal arrangement. Jay Shafer is the founder of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, but admits that the small house concept is not for everyone. In fact, his new bride lives next door to him in 700 square feet. His house is less than 100 square feet although he is planning to expand to 300 square feet.
Small house adherents “believe in minimizing one’s footprint – structural as well as carbon – by living in spaces that are smaller than 1,000 square feet and, in some cases, smaller than 100. Tiny houses have been a fringe curiosity for a decade or more, but devotees believe the concept’s time has finally arrived,” says Kurutz. Half the size
Copyright 2008 Rita Watson