Who wants to live in a Mini House?

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http://realestate.yahoo.com/news/now-that-s-a-tiny-house--1-square-meter.html

I would try it for a night. Don't know where I would put the python and cat. I'm pretty damn sure we would all kill each other.

Posted by WaterboyCancepio
i'm feeling claustrophobic just looking at him. & did this guy give up on sex ?

I don't think this one gets much sex........

Posted by cowpuncher
Something like that would be a little small for me and the dog... lol I have been considering options for quite a while now though, and when I finally find a place where I can settle with the security I want, and buy some land, I've decided that I am going to opt to spend my money on buying as much land as possible up front, vs land with a house. I'd like at least 10 acres, preferably more... 40 would be real nice, very rural, partly wooded, with a spring or a good well. My ultimate goal is to eventually retire with a small hobby farm, and grow most of my family's food myself. My theory is I can always roll up my sleeves, do some building, add on to a small house... whatever. Adding a house to some land is a whole lot easier than finding the perfect place, and then later buying adjacent acreage from a neighbor who knows he has you over a barrel when it comes to pricing, even IF they are willing to sell.

My current plan is to probably buy property, and live in my travel trailer on that property while I construct a small cabin like this, with a sleeping loft: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/2006-06-01/Build-this-Cozy-Cabin.aspx<BR>
Cheap to build, cheap to heat, and plenty of room for the dog and I. Live in that while paying off the land, and once that is paid off, then I can always build a proper house and use the cabin as a great workshop.

Another interesting option I've seen before is building two lean-to style sheds, facing one another. Make both comfortable, with good floors and foundations. Live in one, use the other for storage and workshop space. When the land is paid off, build a house on it, and fill in the space between the two sheds with a larger structure to make a really awesome barn.

Go to Youtube and search for "Simple Solar Homesteading" and you will find a guy who made a somewhat rough, but quite livable little cabin on 1 acre of land, and lives very cheaply. He used mostly repurposed and scrounged materials to do so, has his own well, generates his power with a few solar panels, uses efficient appliances, and heats with LP gas. His total gas/utility bill is somewhere around $ 200 a year. He's roughing it a little more than i would like to long-term, but his place is very frugal and perfectly comfortable from the look of it.

Interesting, you don't meet to many people talking about buying land and st