Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Tiny

I've been looking around at tiny house designs for more than ten years. I'm absolutely fascinated with them. The blog link (on the right) gives me so many great ideas. I'm determined to redesign the typical home. I want something cheaper, sturdier, and easy for anyone to own and use.

I'm not a fan of using storage space for living space or the other way around. I particularly don't like bedrooms. All that room for storing a pad and clothes during the day and then storing sleeping bodies during the night. It just seems odd. The trend in the housing industry seems to be toward complexity; more corners equals more joy. I'm not a fan.

The inside needs help as well. I like to think about furniture like Alton Brown thinks about kitchen gadgets. If it doesn't serve more than one purpose it probably isn't worth owning.

So many people have bathroom, kitchen and water-heater disasters. Why not change house design to stop such unnecessary problems?

GF