You can make this tiny Craftsman Bungalow yours for just $24,000. It's listed for sale with The Tiny Smart House Company. It features double French doors, a skylight...
...cathedral ceilings...
complete with a sleeping loft overhead that's large enough for a king size bed.
The Gypsy Coach Home Listed by Gypsy Coach.com will set you back $19,500. This tiny Victorian style caboose is two levels and measures 16-foot long by 8-foot wide It is constructed of tongue-and-groove-pine siding, dark red trim with brackets at the corners, six windows and a 10-pane front door.
Inside, you'll find wainscoting in the living room and hardwood flooring.
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The Loring Home, my favorite style in the Tiny House collection, is an adorable light-filled bungalow located in Gragon, California. It had me at the front porch. ;) It's listed for sale by the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company and the construction plans are $695. This home can be built for $22,500.
It measures 16-foot 10-inch tall and is 261 square feet in size. It can also be designed with a sleeping loft upstairs or a cathedral ceiling. You know, these cute little houses would make great guest quarters, wouldn't they? They would give your guests lots of privacy for their visit.
Here's a view of how the inside would look when the home is built.
The Kanga Home is one of the more expensive of the tiny homes, costing $30,000 unassembled.
It's 196 square feet, and measures 14x14 with a six-foot deck
Here's a view of the kitchen and the bath in this little home.
All the photos in this post are from the Forbes website, HERE. You'll find even more tiny house photos at Forbes.
Well, you have to admit, you wouldn't waste your weekends cleaning house! And just think how low your property taxes would be. Could you live in a home as small as these? How about with someone else, like a spouse? Would definitely be cozy, wouldn't it?
You can see some pretty amazing "extreme" homes in THIS post. One is even upside down. No kidding!
Or, check out a home that was once a church in THIS post.
Hi Susan, Never mind guest house... how about one of these out back that is just for Mom! We could have our own little work space with a bed and kitchenette too! Kind of like a vacation house without being too far away from the family.....How nice!
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I like that idea! Would be great for a home office, too!
DeleteA couple of years ago I did a post on living smaller and looking around on the web it's amazing to see the number of small house dwellers are out there. Ihttp://jojos-joys.blogspot.com/2009/06/tiny-place.html. Even a wikihow on living in a tiny house! Nit would be fun...for a while. Mid take the tinker wagon in a second!
ReplyDeleteCheryl...I checked out your post...those were so cute! Some had that storybook feel to them...those are my faves!
DeleteI could live there if it was just ME, but the hubs would have to go.
ReplyDelete:) Tell him he has to buy his own. Hey, these might be good for marriages. A couple could have "His" and "Hers" cottages side by side...and it would still be less expensive than owning a normal size home.
DeleteNo, I do not think that I could live in a place that small. It might hold my tableware - lol!! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletelol Diane...I wouldn't mind having one JUST for my tableware! :)
DeleteI like the idea of a tiny house. Although I don't know where I'd put my teacups. I would have to have a lot of shelves...But I think I would like to retire in such a house. Sitting in the front porch drinking tea,,nice.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely no storage! Love the cute porch, too!
DeleteIf I lived alone I sure could live in one of them. I love the caboose:)
ReplyDeleteIt sure would be nice to find 3 other folks wh wanted one and we could split the cost set of the prints. I'm certain with prints in hand I could stick build it much cheaper.
Those were fun to look at Susan, thanks.
That would be fun to share the cost of the prints...then build one in the backyard as a guest cottage, office...or garden house.
DeleteI would live in a house like this if and only if it had a deep wraparound all-season porch. :)
ReplyDeleteAnne, that would be easy to add. Put a back door on it and have a big screened in porch off the back. :)
DeleteThere are days that I think I would love to have my own little cottage! They look cute and easy to keep clean. Cute!
ReplyDeleteThey are definitely CUTE!
DeleteI could by myself, but I'd be climbing the walls with my family. I think one of the keys to keeping our home life happy is the ability to pull back and find some private spaces. That third one is really cute, though. I could see it as the perfect backyard guest space. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI so agree!
DeleteI could live in such a small house and we did, but only on weekends. We moved a 12 x12 foot cabin onto our country lot and fixed it up to look like a Norwegian cabin. We made a Bath House out of the other small building that was on the property. The large brick building was seldom used.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, eleven children were raised (not by me but by the original Utah Pioneers)in our small cabin.
Amazing, isn't it...when you think about how families raised children and lived in cabins back in the day. I guess no one expected the privacy and quite we have come to know.
Deleteoh susan i love these tiny houses! and yes i could and did live in a space that small , for ten years i lived on a 42' sailboat with a living space of 28' long x 8' wide. tight quarters....this is why i have no collections of anything! and now i live in a old single wide mobile home with my husband and lazy dog..so still not alot of space!
ReplyDeleteMary, think of all that dusting time you saved. It must have been fun living on the boat! My hats off to you for taking a different path. We don't all have to follow the same set path, do we?
DeleteMy hubs and I live in a single wide mobile also. It does have 2 full bathrooms so that helps immensely. Our two "guest" rooms however are taken up with my pc, & crafting stuff in one and the other (about as big as some people's walk in closets) is my sewing room. We did live in our travel trailer (24 ft) several times for several months. I loved it and didn't want to live in a regular house again but hubs got cabin fever. I'm part gypsy I think and we've moved a few times at my urges, hubs refuses to move anymore. Our rv was self contained with bunks in the back so it was great for storage. We moved to a house after we'd lived in rv for 10 months in an rv park in G.J.CO. Since all our stuff was still in our house in KY we parked the rv in back yard and I slept in it, loved it. Hubby slept in house on one of those fold down couches from an rv. Was nice at night to go out to trailer and read til I got sleepy with nobody complaining about the light on. I was very used to being alone since hubs used to be cross country trucker, gone for weeks at a time. I loved going with him for weeks at a time also.
DeleteI remember seeing an incredibly small home on HGTV years ago. I've lived in a big house, and I currently live in a small house, with a spouse, and two teen sons. We have more than 14x14 feet though. lol You just have to readjust how you do things. It's sad, but because of the high number of foreclosures, you can get a rather large home right now for these amounts.
ReplyDeleteScary...it's a buyers market now.
DeleteThese are so cute and I don't think I could live in one, but it would be great as a vacation home on a lake. You don't need so much stuff and space on vacation. But regarding HGTV, one of the challenges on their designer contest was to decorate one of these!!!
DeleteI could definitely live there.....as long as I can come alone and leave all these kids here! LOL The Loring is my favorite too...I gotta have a porch!
ReplyDeleteI saw a decorating show and they decorated the inside of these.....the Next HGTV Designer or something....they really made them so cute!
Lorraine
Lorraine, I bet that was a good show! I would imagine I'd be spending a lot of time in IKEA looking at all their storage ideas/solutions. :)
DeleteI think many of us would be surprised to find how comfortable and even liberating it can be to live in a smaller space! Bigger is not necessarily better!
ReplyDeleteI love small spaces, so cozy! But, wow! I would really have to purge! We downsized a few years ago from a very large home to a smallish cottage. Glad that we did! Love it!
ReplyDeleteMy, thoses are small.
ReplyDeleteI lived in a 780sq.ft. house for 19 years, but i have to say, that's probably as small as I would want to go. :-)
Kimberly
With this economic crisis, there is definitely going to be more of a market for smaller homes. These tiny houses will be ideal for those who want to downsize their living situation.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I could live there permanently no. I have too many items that are dear to me that simple would not fit. But there is something quite exciting about thinking of visiting someone and staying there as a guest house.
ReplyDelete~Bliss~
Where do I sign up? Seriously, if I had the property, I'd put one of these in the backyard and treat it as an escape!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am fascinated with this concept, every time I walk through IKEA. They are the King of small space living, I saw a speace last week at our local store that was under 300 sq ft and it had everything...and of course, I wanted to live in it. But not really...
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I adore these smart houses, although I would need to seriously divest myself of some major "stuff" before I could move into one! (And would definitely have to live alone...) I think these would make a perfect vacation house. Did you see the design challenge on HGTV last season when each contestant had to customize one?
ReplyDeleteYou know a few years ago I was looking at all the tiny houses on the net.......considering it as a fun cottage near a lake or something.
ReplyDeleteI think I really could live in one, but would miss my china collections and tea parties. And I could only do it if living alone with no pets.
I love the idea of having one for a guest house.
I am rather spoiled with all my space, haha.
When I was younger, I could most definitely see us living there! They aren't that much smaller or bigger than many NY apartments. I could also see these for students who don't want to live in dorms.
ReplyDeleteI am in LOVE!
ReplyDeleteThese would make for a perfect studio getaway!
And yes, I probably could live in these small houses...
The first 10 years of our marriage we lived in a house of only 500 sq feet complete with dog, cat, fish and children.
What memories!
c.paints [at] yahoo [dot] com
I love these tiny houses... They are sort of enchanting. We are lucky enough to have a very tiny lake cottage (575sf) and for us, it is the perfect size for a getaway. So easy to clean and so little to worry about. But could I live there full time? I doubt it! There is some truth to the old saying about the size of the roof and the amount of worry...
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting these!
No way. I love looking at tiny houses but with a big family and pets..we need all the room we can get. Those are so charming though.
ReplyDeleteWould definitely be great guest spaces. Of course while reading the post I created a very nice craft space in one of them!!!!!! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeletemy husband just got out of the Army and we're staying on my parents ranch for awhile, my husband and dad turned a 200 sq ft. shed from Lowes into an amazing bedroom-apart from the house for us! Wood floors and everything. We spend alot of time out there and space that small is rough at times but I love the cozy feel, after Fort Lester (what we call it) I'm sure one of those little places would feel like a mansion LOL
ReplyDeleteI've seen these used as 'vacation homes' at our local State park. Waaayyyy cuter than those metal boxes on wheels. I'm torn about living in something so small, there's no place to stash your pretties. You'd really have to be discerning about decorative elements.
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If our neighborhood would allow, I would love to have one for a guest house. My first thought was for an expansion of my sewing room, but I wouldn't want to walk outside to it in my gown. I love staying in my gown as long as possible! Oh, a tunnel would be perfect!
ReplyDeleteBeckie
uh, no thanks. Claustrophobic. God, give me lots of room! :)
ReplyDeleteSort of like living on a boat. I'd love one for a guest house.
ReplyDeleteI've been fascinated with the Tiny House movement. It would require a minimalist lifestyle. I don't know where I'd have all my sewing stuff, lol. These are very cute!
ReplyDeleteGoodness, would be tough for me, what would I do with all my dishes, etc.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have one of these wee homes right down by the bank of our river for company to stay in! I like your favourite one best as well! They're sweet. xo wendy
ReplyDeleteIf it were just me, I think I absolutely COULD live in a house this small. (Assuming I had a garage for the car and some extra storage.) As much as I love our big house, the home Ive been most comfortable in was a 700 sf one bedroom apartment that I lived in for a couple of years. Could be cleaned, top to bottom, in an hour. Spiffed up for company in ten minutes, and always felt like a little cocoon to me.
ReplyDeleteLast year on HGTV's Design Star, the designers had to design the inside of the tiny houses and did some brilliant things to them. That was the first time that I had heard of these.
ReplyDeleteUhhhhhh...yes! I could live in one. Oh wait! I DO! Kind of. Since I live in a 5th wheel with my hubbs, 3 pugs and 160 lb mastiff/newfoundland mix--and LOVE IT!!!!!
From 3600 sq ft to the 5th wheel because we had a moment of insanity and decided to go with it! I can definitely recommend the simple uncluttered life of a small dwelling!
PS--I just went over to Forbes and saw the turtleback YURT!!!! How cool is that????? Must be similar to living in a geodesic dome (When I was selling real estate, I sold one and it was great!) in that it has no corners and the flow is so soothing!
ReplyDeleteBut where will I put my dishes? LOL! I would love one of these for crafts and painting gallery....Christine
ReplyDeleteI'll take two of those please! One for me to live in and the other for all my craft supplies..lol
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, these are so adorable. I thought from the first photo they were storage sheds! Boy it would be different living in a home so small. Where would I put my dishes?
ReplyDelete~Emily
The French Hutch
Why not?!? Really, how much of your home do you use on a daily basis?? Ingenious! Small says it all. franki
ReplyDeleteMerlin: I don't know if you will ever see this comment of mine... I will be leaving a comment for Susan (because I live in a small house!) but I was SO curious to see the comments everyone ELSE left! And I will be saying the EXACT thing in my comment that YOU said! "How much of your home do you really use??" So you are right on the money, very wise! :)
DeleteGreat comment, Merlin!
Gloria
Thank you on the info! We are actually thinking of scaling way down! There is just the two of us now and two little dogs, wishing for a little house that is affordable and down right cute while it's at it! Love your blog, simply love it! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteLove these tiny homes! Wouldn't one be fun at the beach or lakeside?
ReplyDeleteA little tight for me, but the kids would love it and it would fit right in the back yard!
ReplyDeleteI have been so intrigued by these tiny houses. I would love to have one as a little getaway, but it would probably be hard to live in one all the time.
ReplyDeleteOne of thses would make the perfect "dog house" for when my husband is in trouble. Only problem is...he might actually like it!!! Really neat concept! I agree that guests would be very comfortable in one of these or perhaps a single person who doesn't want a lot of house to clean/heat/cool/manage and doesn't do a lot of cooking. Not too shabby!
ReplyDeleteHi lovely lady.
ReplyDeleteI Love this house.!
These would make for a perfect studio and office getaway!
And yes, I probably could live in these small houses...Put me in the Hat.
XXOO Diane
These are so cool! I used to live in a home as small as some of these (400 square feet) but that was in NYC where that is the norm for some people. Our place now feels small at 1000 square feet, but compared to these it is roomy!
ReplyDeletelove it! i am totally going to live in one of those!
ReplyDelete~j
These are all lovely, however, a bit small for me. No room for Pottery Barn desk ensembles here. The are, believe it or not, mostly all bigger than the rabbit-warren of an apartment my son lives in and pays $900 a month for. Fun to look at....thanks for sharing. Today is my Friday, so have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteI have belonged to the Tiny House and Straw Bale homes Yahoo groups for years. We have some land in Southern Colorado and I dream of having something like this there. The best design I have seen is an award winning project by a couple of architects a few years back. They used a container.
ReplyDeleteAlma
Of course you can do it. The sooner the better. Starting with a 12x12, now the master bedroom with loft sleeping, we ended up with a complex of five buildings connected by terraces, porches, courtyards, patios and pathways. All are still small and built for specific functions. Each building is self contained so utility costs are minimal. The real joy is decorating separate spaces with different colors and ambiance.
ReplyDeleteLynn
I WOULD so do it!
ReplyDeleteAdorable as they are I couldn't imagine living in one.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we could do it. But I would have to have outside garden/yard space. We live in Az and do a lot of back patio living. Gotta have greenery or I would dry up.
ReplyDeleteI love the caboose! Too bad there wouldn't be any room for Hubs & dogs ;-D
ReplyDeleteI guess it would be fine for just one person. I like the high ceilings..
ReplyDeleteDON'T YOU JUST LOVE THE TUMBLEWEED HOUSES, I HAVE BEEN CRUSHING ON THEM FOR AWHILE. IF I EVER WERE TO SELL MY HOUSE, AFTER THE AUCTIONEER CLEARED ALL OF MY STUFF OUT...YES I EDITED THAT!! I WOULD BUILD THE SAME ONE YOU HAVE PICTURED. I KEEP TELLING MY FAMILY THAT I WANT SOMETHING ALL ON ONE LEVEL, WITH MY WHITE SLIPCOVERED IKEA SOFAS.
ReplyDeleteWOW, Susan! This has to be one of my favorite posts of yours ever!! This is because my house is very small, and I always see these HUGE homes that bloggers have and I always say, "Oh, these ladies would NEVER like living in a small house like mine!" And what a REFRESHING thing to see and read that almost ALL of the ladies embraced the 'small house' life!! I was VERY surprised. I thought most would say, "Oh no, not for me!" So I am so happy to see how many down-to-earth ladies are out there. Yes, there were a few who worried about their things, where to put them (I have that problem! LOL!); but I would say about 95% of the girls were complimentary of a small home. And, again, speaking as someone with a small home, it made me feel GOOD.
ReplyDeleteAnd the only comment I was ORIGINALLY going to write after just reading your post (and not yet reading the comments) was exactly what "Merlin" (franki) wrote in her comment, saying: "Really, how much of your home do you use on a daily basis??" It is SO true. What rooms do all of us use? The kitchen, living room, bedroom - a place to eat, relax, sleep. Oh, and the bathroom. ;)
Thanks for this post, because I'm glad I took the time to read the comments and see how many lovely and humble people are out there. As I said, I really thought I'd hear more NAY's and less YEA's. This made my night as a dweller of a smaller home! :)
Best,
Gloria
Thanks, Gloria! There is something really wonderful, warm and cozy about a small home. They really are charming!
DeleteI think it would be incredibly liberating to live in one of these. They are definitely charming. Sadly, I could never give up my "stuff". But I do admire anyone who could live like this.
ReplyDeleteThe suggestion of using it as a "guest cottage" is rather blasphemic, don't you think? Really defeats the whole purpose of the exercise.
BTW, here in Toronto, Canada one of these would probably cost you around the $100,000 mark - or beyond! 500 ft. sq. condos easilt go for 5 and 6 hundred thousand.
I read a few of the first comments and I agree, it would be perfect for my tablescaping things:):) Wher would you put your stuff???? Even my CLOTHES, shoes and purses wouldn't fit in one of these, LOL! Good concept though, for the right person. XO, Pinky
ReplyDeleteI could live in one of those maybe when I'm older and can't do all the crafts that I do now. I'm not the kind of person that could live in one of those "old people" places. I need my quiet and being alone. I read alot and could still do some crafts. You'd be surprised how much you don't need. You learn that all the chotskes aren't so important and not having to clean a big house, now that I like. How many clothes does a person really need? I'm 71 now and hope to live in our travel trailer when the time comes to live alone if my spouse dies before I do. I know I won't be able to afford to keep our house so am thinking about what I"ll do if that happens.Have to face reality as things are now. Would love to have one of those adorable little houses. So cute, looked pretty roomy actually.
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