Teeny Houses

The Wee House

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:

  • The Wee House is definitely a favorite — teeny, sleek, and flexible

  • 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

  • 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

  • These groovy Floating Homes from Germany

    rock me

  • 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

  • The Zenkaya would be delightful for a little warm-weather getaway somewhere

  • 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

  • The Flatpak House is a great idea for beautiful little modular houses, but the website is a bit of a flash-intensive horror

  • The Loftcube is sexy and futuristic, but a bit too posh all in all

  • A few different models from the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, especially the XT house, seem really darling

BlueSky Mod

4 thoughts on “Teeny Houses”

  1. Oh my. The Tumbleweed houses have stolen my heart. They are definitely going in my ‘Cute’ folder. I really love the concept of compact, bare-bones living, but I hate the modern look of many of the concepts (why yes, there IS a reason I’m going in to Historic Restoration.) The Tumbelweed houses kick it just the right amount of old-school for my taste.

  3. I too have been drooling over these mini houses, particularly the LoftCube, which I mailed around to friends last year, saying I was moving to Germany just so I could have one. Of course, I have to keep reminding myself that these are all nothing more than trailers without wheels. But considering my roots, still appropriate.

  4. There’s a guy here in New Zealand that has designed these cool little kitset holiday homes. I’d love to have one – they’re so well designed. Okay, the website is a bit of a pig – all flash driven – but the “bach” (what we call our holiday homes here) are pretty cool. Found you on Typophile. Nice blog.
    http://www.bachkit.com

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