{"id":1510,"date":"2006-04-23T23:03:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/teeny_houses\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T20:13:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T04:13:50","slug":"teeny_houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/teeny_houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Teeny Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weehouses.com\/projects\/weehouse.htm\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Wee House\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/weehouse.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" vspace=\"4\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Even though I know I\u2019m a bit nomadic,<\/strong> 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. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edilportale.com\/livingbox\/eng\/suggestions.htm\" >This page of teeny houses<\/a>, for instance, makes me tremble with delight.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/architecture\/prefab\/\" >Treehugger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotsofco.org\/blog\/?cat=15\" >Max at lotsofco.org<\/a>.) My favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/weehouses.com\/projects\/weehouse.htm\" >Wee House<\/a> is definitely a favorite &#8212; teeny, sleek, and flexible<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustain.ca\/\" >miniHome<\/a> is not just sexy, but it also seems to consider the cost and land-use issues for a li&#8217;l prefab house, as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2005\/12\/the_mini-home_f.php\" >Treehugger post<\/a> notes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The various schemes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueskymod.com\/\" >BlueSky Mod<\/a> are also magically delicious, but sadly they don&#8217;t show as much of them on the web site as I would like<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>These groovy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatinghomes.de\" >Floating Homes<\/a> from Germany<\/p>\n<p> rock me<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/microcompacthome.com\" >Micro Compact Home<\/a> is lovely and tiny, especially in this idea for a <a href=\"http:\/\/microcompacthome.com\/projects\/?con=tree\" >tree village<\/a> made of of the little cubes attached to vertical supports<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenkaya.com\/htm\/zenkaya-prefab-01.htm\" >Zenkaya<\/a> would be delightful for a little warm-weather getaway somewhere<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>I <\/i>love<\/i> the Boase concept from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.force4.dk\/\" >Studio Force4<\/a>, which I first read about in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolismag.com\" >Metropolis<\/a><\/i> a while back &#8212; a cluster of sort-of-treehouses built into groves that actually decontaminate polluted soil<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flatpakhouse.com\/\" >Flatpak House<\/a> is a great idea for beautiful little modular houses, but the website is a bit of a flash-intensive horror<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loftcube.net\/ \" >Loftcube<\/a> is sexy and futuristic, but a bit too posh all in all<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A few different models from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumbleweedhouses.com\" >Tumbleweed Tiny House Company<\/a>, especially the XT house, seem really darling<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueskymod.com\/\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BlueSky Mod\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/blueskymod.jpg\" width=\"476\" height=\"284\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I know I\u2019m 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/teeny_houses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teeny Houses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69330,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/69330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}