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Reclaimed, recycled, passive solar, tiny house on wheels
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Jenine Alexander built her own home using reclaimed materials she found at the dump or off craigslist. Total cost: the price of a used trailer and some fasteners.Her tiny home on wheels was such a success she decided to build a second one, this time for sale, with fellow ...
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1 week, 3 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A tiny home on wheels: breaking with minimum size standards
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Many communities, counties and states in the U.S. have minimum size standards, meaning that there are homes that are just too small to be legal. They range from a not-so-tiny 900-square-feet minimum for New York State to a whopping 2,500-square-foot minimum for Hillsborough, CA.When Forge Ahead Construction ...
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1 week, 3 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
DIY home for less than $3,500
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In a town where the median home price is over half a million dollars, Jenine Alexander decided to build her own. "It's a house that's mobile… For me it just made sense because I don't own any land yet. Land is so expensive around here like I ...
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1 week, 4 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Thoreau's cabin redux: tiny homes and happiness
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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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10 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
A tiny home tour: living in 96 square feet
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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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10 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments
When is a house too big?
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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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3 years, 4 months ago by: jenarcher user comments
