Life: 10 x 10

Well, actually more like 8 x 14, but these houses are 100 sq. ft. or less! That’s tiny, but there are a growing handful of people living comfortably in them, and I’d like to become one!

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

The above is a company building and selling tiny houses. You can get the basic idea by looking at their designs.

Here’s another site with resources and plans:

http://www.tinyhousedesign.com/

Wouldn’t it be lovely to live without a mortgage, quite possibly in a house that can move with you whenever you happen to feel the wanderlust? Esp. for someone in theater, a highly mobile profession, the idea of taking one’s house along for short stays is very appealing.

No mortgage, and so much less stuff! After all, Campbell’s Law of Storage states:

Ones possessions will expand to fill whatever storage space is available.

With a tiny house your storage space goes way down. Since there’s no room to put new stuff, you are almost guaranteed to get less of it! There needs to be a place for everything, and everything needs to be in its place… else you won’t be able to move.

Why do we need so much space inside when we can move around outside, or do the things we do inside in a lot less space? Most of my inside work is office-type stuff. I do research, I write, I read. All these things can be done in a very small space.

Living in a tiny house is inexpensive in general (no debt, low heating and lighting costs), and I imagine that the mindset of a tiny house dweller tends towards lower cost living in all areas. I look forward to being able to support myself on an actor’s limited income.