To ask if you'd live in a tiny home? Tiny house, motorhome, boat or caravan etc.

I’m slightly obsessed with tiny homes too

DH and I lived on a canal boat for a couple of years before we had kids. The only thing that slightly annoyed me was having our bed against a wall so we had to climb over each other. We had a little wood burner so it was fine, even in winter.

Our kids are adults now, and once our youngest is finished uni and settled, we’re half planning on converting a van, putting all our shit in storage and fucking off

No, never. I wfh and I really appreciate having multiple rooms to spend time in. I work in my office. I'll watch TV or do crafting in the lounge. I'll sit in the kitchen and have a coffee. I'll spend time in my room reading. I'd get really depressed if I was basically trapped in just one space for all activities. I'm also a maximalist so like a lot of stuff, colours, interesting wallpaper etc so every room is very different and gives me a different vibe. You can't do any of that in a tiny space.

Decades ago when I was young, I rented a room in a HMO which had previously been a bathroom, so you couldn't see out of the window (I was desperate at the time!). The single bed touched the wall on 3 sides, with just a little space at the foot of the bed for belongings. That was it. By day 3 I was in tears, by day 5 I'd left and crashed on a friends floor until I found something else. My MH plummeted so fast it was scary. So I know it's not for me.

Currently have a normal property & a vintage camper van.

Really enjoy time in the camper van, many adventures !

I have lived in a variety of places

Tiny bedsits rented
Tiny property owned

I spent my time working long hours
Or
Worked FT & volunteered
Or
Worked FT & visited family for caring responsibilities several hours away

I spent very little time at home

Bills were very low !

We bought a motorhome six months ago. The longest we have been away in it is a month, the plan was 3 months but MIL got cancer so DH was needed.

It takes a while to truly sort it out to be the most efficient, we are still at that stage but getting there quite quickly. The Motorhome is 7.5m, 4 berth.

Books are easy you take 2 and then swap out in a charity shop when finished. DH did stuff like buy a multi tool, it’s been handy and used, you absolutely have to have a place for everything and everything in its place. I bought a salt and pepper pot that’s combined, it’s just small things like that. You have to consider payload of your vehicle. Every single thing has a weight it’s not just about space. You even need to consider your own weight as it’s part of the payload.

We have a small portable washing machine, I can’t use communal ones due to allergies to washing powders. Also take clothing that’s lightweight and that dries quicker.

We had a composite refillable gas system fitted, the kit weighs half what metal cans do and is much cheaper to fill up

We are buying a small tv with a DVD player combined as signals can be bad in remote areas and download speeds awful, though we do download some stuff in advance.

It’s our first Motorhome, it is a very decent German brand, DH did extensive research and we hired 2 to decide on layout before buying. People swap ideas on sites and it’s been useful. Our next purchase may be an inflatable kayak, we borrowed one when away from the man in the next van.

I'd be quite happy to live in a little home - I inherited half a 3-bed which I bought the other inheritor out of. Turns out I don't need a house that big and I'm looking to downsize. I'm happy to downsize to a little two-up two-down but the problem I'm finding is that whilst I can live in a little one-bed if I have to, I'd die without a decent sized garden, and most little houses where I live only come with a back yard or a communal garden.

Apart from the horizontal rain that we sometimes get when the wind is in the wrong direction - which sounds like someone turned a hosepipe on the windows, the main drawback I find is the humidity which has completely destroyed my previously straighter-than-straight hair. Now it often resembles a well-used brillo pad, no matter which frizz-fighting serum I use!

If I lived alone and had no close family who might want to stay, then I absolutely would. I grew up in a fairly small home (around 45sqm, two of us) and I liked the feeling of cosiness. But I live with a packrat and two teen boys and a dog and in laws who visit all the time, so in that context the bigger the better!

Absolutely not. I enjoy having family and friends over too much!

My X husband lives on a boat. When we sold our family home I decided to start renting (too old for a mortgage) and he chose to buy a boat and live on it.

I have been there a couple of times and its a lovely boat, but sooooo small. He hasn't experienced a winter there yet, so I hope it stays warm.

I have a combined washer/dryer but I never use the dryer bit. If I can't use the external drying space, I put a drying rack in the bathroom with my dehumidifier directly underneath it and close the door. The washing is pretty much dry in about 4 hours. Takes a bit longer in winter but not that much really.

I downsized to a studio apartment nearly 5 years ago during the lockdowns. I wanted to retire early and I'd always wanted to live by the sea. | was looking for two-bed houses in a seaside town but there aren't that many in the area I was hoping to move to. I hadn't considered an apartment but the one I ended up buying somehow came across my radar and the more I looked at it, the more it made sense as a temporary measure while I funded my own retirement until my pensions officially kicked in - when I fully intended to buy something larger and more suited to my (imagined) needs.

Five years later, I wouldn't live anywhere else. The flat has ample built in storage and all my furniture has been chosen with storage in mind. (For example, my coffee table is a pine chest and both my sofa and bed have legs so that I can get those underbed storage containers underneath without them being too obvious.) There is a large sliding wall that goes across the room and creates a separate bedroom area and, as a single woman (who intends to remain that way for the rest of her life), I don't need or want anything else. Added bonuses are it's extremely cheap to run, the sea is just across the road and the neighbours are good people. I love it.

Our first house was tiny, it was a doer-upper too. There wasn't room to swing a cat.

I could live in one on my own, not as a couple and certainly not with a family. Motorhome, never.

I grew up in a very small house but was an only child so it wasn't too bad. My cousin grew up in one that was identical and she had two older sisters! They managed but there was no privacy.

Possibly, if I lived alone. Not sure what it would be like in reality but a small home with no wasted space does appeal to me. I wouldn’t want a barge though as I’d find the low ceiling claustrophobic.

Nope. I like watching the videos but would never live in one. Like PP Ive lived in many tiny bedsits, then a tiny 1 bed flat with a baby etc....

We recently moved into our first house and we all love it. Huge rooms, very light and high ceilings. Lots of space.

We're reasonably minimalist so its easy to take care of. But like PP said, I dread to think how you would dry stuff in a tiny house!

We kind of do for a large part of the year and will do fully once the kids leave home.
We have an old Bjølseth caravan and a spiketelt on a mountain in one of the coldest areas of Norway. We absolutely adore it. Life is so much easier there, even with two children.

The spiketelt is a tiny cabin that the caravan is attached onto. It's well insulated (we drop below -35 in January) and has underfloor heating. The caravan is a Norwegian winter caravan, so again well insulated with incredible storage for snowboards!
The cabin part is built so that it can be a separate bedroom at night.
We have built a large deck area which has a covered section near the firepit, so we can sit out and be warm in winter too.
We spend every weekend there and all holidays. We've done some additions and next summer will add a water collection system. At the moment we take water with us.
Although the indoor space is quite small, we make the use of the outdoor space much more.

As well as the colour plates, the Kindle would need to make it easy to have several books on the go at once, to easily flick through to find something specific that you remember was about yay far through and on the left hand page, to have intriguing notes by former owners and givers in the inside cover, to have random bits of paper stashed between pages, and to fall open at favourite passages.

Totally.

I have a wall of books. And 5 more walls of books. And no, they're not all (or even mostly, I suspect) available in kindle. And if they were, it wouldn't be remotely the same. Find me a Kindle with original Aubrey Beardsley colour plates and I might have a rethink, but until then the books stay.

Absolutely not.

I did my share of bedsits as a student and van holidays as a child. Now, if it doesn't have space for several thousand books, proper beds and sofas, and a fully equipped kitchen I'm not interested.

What counts as a “tiny home” in terms of floor space- square feet etc?

Only if I didn't have to have anyone else around.