"Designed to be 100% off the grid, the 150-square-foot unit can be flat-packed and shipped in a box that is 4 x 10 x 3 feet in size."
—The perfect and adorable House Arc can be put together easily, they claim, although it's unclear how much it costs or how to buy one immediately. There is a rentable one beside a swimming pool in Hawaii, however, although you have to bring your own tiny bathroom. [Thanks, Kirsten!]
Elsewhere in the tiny house kingdom: A cabin in a loft in Brooklyn.
I bought a Tiny House this week!
We are going to put it together this weekend. Then my daughter will "color" it with such crayons as she does not prefer to eat, and we will put her tiny chairs inside and she will have a ball.
@atipofthehat Ooh! I had one of those when I was a kid and I FUCKING LOVED IT.
I would go for that in a hummingbird's heartbeat, but for its lack of kitchen. I just want to make an omelet! You know?
@Emby Second. Well, lack of kitchen and bathroom. Does it count as a house at that point? I feel like you need to include one or the other to count as a true house.
@Emby
Are you kidding me?
I want to put this in my parents' backyard for my visits home. Now they don't have to feel guilty about my old bedroom being occupied! It can be the Tiny Poolhouse.
I want one of these. Especially the office with the rounded stainless-steel view.
@atipofthehat I want that octopus plush. Because of the weird angle in the last photo, it looks about four feet long.
is anybody else weirded out by the way that rays are shooting out of the woman's eyes in this picture: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andrea/architecture/bellomo_architects/housearc10.jpg
and like, why show that? does the house affect my peripheral vision?
@blahstudent It looks like they're coming out of her forehead. OMG DO TINY HOUSES MAKE YOU CLAIRVOYANT?
I looked at this magazine we have at work that is allegedly about small houses...and most of the houses I saw in there appear approximately the size of my WHOLE BOTTOM FLOOR A GIANT VICTORIAN HOUSE apartment and I was like gtfo, you ain't shit. Some country motherfuckers are writing this if 1800 square feet is a huge deal in tiny-house-land. Call me when the whole bathroom is a shower stall with a collapsible toilet.
I want one of these so I can put it in my backyard and it can be my grown up fort.
I’ll take the tropical rain forest and swimming pool. The house arc can wait.
It would make a neat little office or studio, but without toilet or kitchen facilities, it's not a house.
Ugh. I thought we had finally seen the back of architects designing cutesy houses for natural disaster relief.
@Ham Snadwich
When your village has been destroyed and half of your family is missing and you're shivering and starving, the most important thing is good design.
@atipofthehat - Well it's not like there's millions of durable metal boxes distributed throughout the world that could be used instead. That's just crazy.
I am obsessed with tiny houses. Totally impractical, as I don't think any of them would hold my book collection, not to mention my cookware and zillion black shirts. But still--the idea of living in a tiny house seems so satisfying and cozy to me. Like being in one of the Lost Boy's pods in "Hook".
I totally want a tiny house one day. Constantly moving since college has shown that I'm not too attached to things and it will keep me from being a pack rat.
I think it's a cycle. My mom grew up poor, couldn't have much stuff and now she's a pack rat. I couldn't stand all the useless stuff we had so every other month I start purging my possessions and aim for minimalism.