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Charred cedar…Just because Thoreau wrote “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately” doesn’t mean the interiors of tiny houses have to be constructed entirely out of wood.
Think horrible, characterless rectangles big enough for a falcon to fly through. This means large windows that open on the top and bottom levels of the house. In a building with a bed on a mezzanine there needs to be a way to effectively cool the upstairs down in summer. In a building that is only 46m 2 cross ventilation is critical. The thing about windows is that they have a function beyond letting light in, that is, to let air in and out of the building. The sort of tiny round window people would have looked out of as RMS Titanic hit the iceberg make a regular appearance on tiny house documentaries, accompanied by the owner-builder saying something like, ‘The porthole has so much character’.
Dinky windowsĪnother way I can tie DiCaprio into this blog post is to critique the idea that tiny round un-openable windows are a good idea. The philosophy and the house has to match. The occasional vintage Japanese robot or a David Shrigley book on the coffee table is fine, but they probably aren’t suited to someone who collects Middle Eastern chess sets from the 7 th and 8 th century. It doesn’t mean that tiny houses can’t have character. Tiny houses succeed when the possessions match the 46m 2 space. It fails when every square metre is utilised as storage for Leonardo DiCaprio’s career. Titanic anyone? Tiny house design is successful when it allows for unfilled space. I watched a video of a proud tiny house owner pulling up a trapdoor to reveal an extensive DVD collection. It is like the owners are living a double life-this way they can keep their crap and be a digital off-grid nomad with a micro-nutrients start-up. Some tiny houses include big refrigerators and flat-screen televisions that take up half the wall. Sometimes people think they can squeeze the objects from their former McMansion into their new tiny house through mega-storage solutions. Regular houses are not small-In 2016 the average size of a newly built freestanding home in Australia was 231m 2. Given the average size of a newly built tiny house is 46m 2, tiny houses make sense for people with minimal possessions. These people have form and function down. Minimalists don’t have a box of springboard diving trophies from 1986 they don’t own a dozen jackets they don’t have a good china cabinet, they probably just have some nice plates. Sarah Coles looks at common mistakes people make when designing and building their home. Many tiny houses are stinking hot in summer, look like ugly boats, and have too many cupboards. But like their predecessors, just because they are good in theory, doesn’t mean they will work. Tiny houses are on trend-the latest in a long list of architectural and social movements like aquaponics, rooftop gardening, container houses and intentional communities.
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