I love the concept of the tiny house, and clever alternative housing in general. So I was intrigued by this story from the Hartford Courant: a soon-to-be Yale forestry grad student is building herself a mini-house, complete with solar array, instead of moving into student housing. Check out the video tour! (Via Apartment Therapy: Re-Nest.)
It's the kind of thing I wish I'd thought of when I was in grad school in Ann Arbor, instead of forking over ridiculously high percentages of my stipend for crappy apartments. Compared to some of the slumlord-managed hellholes I looked at while searching for somewhere to live over the years, a tiny house sounds like heaven.
Amanda,
Are you familiar with Christopher Alexander's _A Pattern Language_? "A House for One Person" (see
http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl078.htm) has always struck me as brilliant.
Posted by: Jodi Schneider | August 24, 2008 at 05:24 PM
You know, it's been on my to-read list for ages. I'll have to check it out sometime soon. I like the "house for one person" concept too -- I think the problem with most studio apartments is that they're just not laid out with an eye toward making them livable like that.
Posted by: Amanda | August 25, 2008 at 06:48 PM