We've decided that
this Summer we are going to live a month in Hubby's Tiny House.
While this sounds
very undramatic, it could actually be the beginning of something
quite revolutionary. After months of
mulling things over, our tentative LRP goes something like this:
- See if it is at all possible to fit us in a 27 m2 / 290 ft2 house (The Tiny House) for an extended time period.
- Sell my 130 m2 / 1400 ft2 house (The Big House).
- Buy some land near The Tiny House to gain some additional square meters, enough to add two conservatively sized bedrooms and a bathroom to The Tiny House.
Things were set in
motion the other night when Hubby suddenly had a breakthrough, sat
down at our dinner table and began scribbling furiously on his floor
plan. By changing the position of our kitchen, he suddenly managed to
create a teensy bedroom for our Little'Un. As she is only 8 and of
fairy proportions, it could actually be feasible. And this Summer
we're going to see if it's livable as well.
Now we can't wait to
get over there and get some measurements in. While the standard
suggestion in interior decorating books is that you should cut out
some nifty little furniture templates and place them on your nifty
floor plan, I'm not very impressed with that approach. It isn't until
you're on site and move your Real Life furniture around that you
truly see if it works.
Or as Hubby put it:
When you look at the floor plan, it seems the kitchen is waaaayyyy
over there on the opposite wall... and then, when you actually open
the door, you realise that if you stumbled on the threshold, you
could very easily end up smashing your front teeth in the kitchen
counter!
QED.
Ze End (as my
Italian hubby would put it)
