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Thoreau's cabin redux: tiny homes and happinessvideos
Henry David Thoreau went to live in a 150-square-foot cabin in the woods because he "wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." His essentials for his home were a bed, a desk and three chairs: "one for solitude, two for friendship and three for society ...
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4 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A tiny home tour: living in 96 square feetvideos
Homes are shrinking in America. After doubling in size since 1960, the national average dropped for the first time in nearly 15 years (by 9%, the size of an average room). But far from this new average of 2,000 plus square feet are the so-called tiny houses. Also called ...
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4 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments
When is a house too big?blogs
After 3 years of househunting, we have finally found a new home to fit our expanding family, but now I'm having second thoughts: do we really need more space? We will be going from about 1,200 to 2,800 square feet which will put us just above the ...
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2 years, 11 months ago by: jenarcher user comments