Start a floor, then walls, roof, windows, doors... is a tiny house for you? Where to put it? Healthy or Toxic choices.

Not everyone really wants just 1 tiny house, most want a few instead. Bathroom, kitchen, living area for one w/ loft for guest, 1 for master suite, 2 for BnB income, a study/cottage, is 5 enough?

Some people think that wanting to live in a tiny organic cottage is equal to jumping off a cliff. No. It’s not that exciting I assure you as I tested the difference. The cliff jump is much more stimulating. After I got my cataracts replaced with new lenses I decided to leap over my fear of heights that came with 60 years of blindness. If you can see better, you can judge your potential, what you can do and thrive afterwards.

Yes, a set of tiny houses would set most people up for privacy yet space to be the hostess with the mostest yet have your space alone. The big problem with so many kids returning home or parents moving in with kids is the lack of privacy and even solitude without TV, music, or people not getting along so well having to be around each other all the time. Soothing is the silence when you want to get away but a tiny house with many people will not do, let alone a giant house with many more than you. So how do we break away and create these tiny homes that the government will still allow with code or rules that no make tiny houses rarely found?

Later, that same jump would have landed me in the water, so it is important when you make your leap, not just where, why, or how. This landscape changed dramatically over three months time as there were no cliffs, no rocks, or water at the end of summer 2019. Imagination and determination do wonders when we get older.

By changing the rules or buying unrestricted land that is outside the jurisdiction of the Building Codes that most cities, even counties now require for anyone to build. Generally, the portable building rules will provide some loopholes to work around the restrictions used to limit the use of your property. Will they let you dig your own swimming pool for example? You could ask or check deed restrictions but many things are not delineated in deed restrictions when the property is conveyed from an average person before subdivisions are created and the legal quagmire of restrictions included thereafter, never to be removed. If it says no main house smaller than 2,700 sq. feet with Grey colored shingles and light blue paint, that will be your only choice, not smaller or in pink. This sort of creation such as my master suite where I sleep at night is not allowed in most subdivisions, in the city, and given I choose not to have AC electricity, thus no air conditioning other than a Dewalt fan which does a great job of cooling it as much as it needs even at 107 degrees F temps. NO running water to the house so a composting toilet is fine if I choose to use it, but not possible in the city or a gated community in most places.

Home Owners Associations in gated communities or even without the gates usually limit additional storage buildings by height, square footage, and with restrictions against living in them, as in sleeping. They will have the ability to stop people and even take their homes away if they try to put one up without permission. Cities generally have a 750 square foot minimum to build a house but many do not regulate or code control under 200 square foot structures, particularly if they are portable. Ergo the portable building rather than a trailered house on wheels which is coded against living in, parking on the public streets without a car or truck attached, plugging into electric even if on the property if someone goes to live in it full time. There are exceptions in small towns and they will likely remain until that right is abused such as the problems with homelessness have created in many major cities now.

If you want to buy that dream acreage, add tiny houses, permaculture design that has food growing all about, self-sufficiency the goal for many… it is no small task. The world gets stranger by the day and many in the blue cities are ready to run away, to get out of the madness and back to nature. While it is a dream for millions, few will act to change their lives, to make the move, and to do the work it will take to make their dreams come true. Is this you too?