Even though I know I’m a bit nomadic, from time to time I still entertain the fantasy of owning a home of my own someday. Of course, my vision of owning a home is a fusion of various thoughts I have about mobility, thriftiness, craftsmanship, ecological worries, and an aversion to suburbia. Pretty much, that leaves me salivating over fantasies of tiny, prefab, loft-like houses that can be dropped in unusual places. This page of teeny houses, for instance, makes me tremble with delight.
I consistently forget to jot down these various house kits that catch my fancy, so I finally went on a hunt this evening to find links to various projects that have caught my eye over the years. (Most of what I found came from Treehugger and Max at lotsofco.org.) My favorites:
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The Wee House is definitely a favorite — teeny, sleek, and flexible
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The miniHome is not just sexy, but it also seems to consider the cost and land-use issues for a li’l prefab house, as this Treehugger post notes
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The various schemes from BlueSky Mod are also magically delicious, but sadly they don’t show as much of them on the web site as I would like
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These groovy Floating Homes from Germany
rock me
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The Micro Compact Home is lovely and tiny, especially in this idea for a tree village made of of the little cubes attached to vertical supports
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The Zenkaya would be delightful for a little warm-weather getaway somewhere
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I love the Boase concept from Studio Force4, which I first read about in Metropolis a while back — a cluster of sort-of-treehouses built into groves that actually decontaminate polluted soil
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The Flatpak House is a great idea for beautiful little modular houses, but the website is a bit of a flash-intensive horror
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The Loftcube is sexy and futuristic, but a bit too posh all in all
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A few different models from the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, especially the XT house, seem really darling
