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

[YumYa]

Just watching Tiny home tours on YouTube.

I really admire the way the homes are organised. I don't live in a big house but it's still bigger than these.

Watching has made me want to do more decluttering. And also appreciate what we have. Although the people living in these homes seem very happy.

We couldn't do it because of family staying sometimes.

@MidlandsGal1 😳 wtaf? That's mad.

The one thing that would stop me living in a tiny home is all my books - at the moment I have a library plus 4 other bookcases in other rooms, all full and overflowing. It’s not hoarding if it’s books, right?

You could have a wall of books surely? 😉

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius have you been on mn a long time? And have you been to a meet up in London?

It would need to be a very long wall! 😬

@PersonIrresponsible you sound like someone I'd love to meet in a good pub and chat to. What an interesting life.

I would love to live on a boat but I wouldn't necessarily class it as a cheap alternative to housing Mooring fees can be very expensive and they very quickly drop in value. A friend mine.was made homeless and is currently living in a converted shipping container which is really nice.

I'd hate it!
My dad grew up in an enormous former vicarage. It had a separate flat that was previously servants' quarters I suspect, a huge laundry room, a wine cellar... That's my kind of house.
My grandfather was not at all acquisitive but did tend to keep things for ever (in the 90s he tried to give me some tinned bread left over from the war!). He and my step grandmother didn't have loads of stuff except for books (and they weren't that good at sorting out paperwork, TBF).
My DCs are adopted from abroad and when each one was matched with us we went over to meet them (as babies). We took one suitcase of clothes each and my goodness, was I fed up with those clothes having worn them for at least a couple of months straight (longer for DC2!).
I try and keep my wardrobe to a reasonable level but I couldn't keep sane without at least some degree of choice I reckon.

I’d love it! I find these videos so satisfying to watch. And in principal it would be a really simple life where everything you own is valuable and necessary, no clutter or junk. You’d stay organised and cleaning wouldn’t take very long. They also look so cosy and warm.

Id only do it on my own though. Can’t imagine been squeezed in with kids or even a partner.

I have fully embraced the Kindle life.

I think I’d bankrupt us if I tried to put all my library on Kindle - plus quite a lot of them aren’t available on Kindle.

It may look as if I am making excuses so I can hold onto my book hoard, but that is absolutely not the case. Not at all. Not me.

You believe me, right…

I remember when it was all fields around here, @YumYa x that’s now long I’ve been here. And I did go to a MN knitters’ meet up, at the V&A cafe once.

No this was a meal and piss up in London eons ago

And no don't believe a bit of it! 😅

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.