tiny houses

[Momo]

http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/tiny_houses2.html

http://news.distractify.com/culture/arts/hold-me-close-now-tiny-houses/

Saw this on misc earlier, these things are neat as shit, you guys ever seen one IRL?

[Rufus]

I love tiny houses. I guess growing up and living in tiny apartments all my life and not hating it generally endears me to the idea.

[CatsCatsCats]

I would love a small earthship done in a style like that

[recursivelyenumerable]

hnnnnnggg

[cool breeze]

yeah, I always like the efficient use of these small spaces.  but whenever I see these tiny houses/apartments the kitchen is what I'd find most incompatible.

[Tasty]

I'm following like 5 Tumblrs that post houses like these.

[Tasty]

I eat out all the time so tiny kitchen's fine by me

[Momo]

Live on Namek brahs

[Tasty]

Looks more like Goku's house.

[Brehvolution]

Little boxes on the hill side
Little boxes made of ticky tacky

[Steve Contra]

It's like living in a design magazine

[recursivelyenumerable]

omg i would so totally move to a design magazine

[Tasty]

It's like living in a design magazine

[nudemacusers]

I eat out all the time so tiny kitchen's fine by me

I'm sure all of these houses have ample room for a salt shaker

[a slime appears]

[king of the internet]

I love these. I'm a big fan minimalism. If I could pull it off I'd probably just live fetal position in a cardboard box.

[Rufus]

[thisismyusername]

It's like living in a design magazine

Eh, them and pre-fabs are all the rage right now.

Though I think I prefer pre-fabs more than small-spaces. While small spaces are more "environmentally" conscious, I worry too much about my pack-rat tendency and spacing issues. Like someone said earlier about the kitchens. Generally the space for the kitchen is fine, but "cramped" after being in houses with more space to move around.

Like this impresses me more than tiny spaces. Reusing stuff like shipping containers to build houses. Though, I really wonder how sustainable/low-maintenance those routes are.

[bork]

Momo, that's not a tiny house you posted in the OP-- it's an apartment.  Still awesome as hell, but there is a difference in space.

I'm all about tiny houses/apartments and used to check out videos/blogs on them all the time.  Haven't done it as much this year though.

The last one I saw that was impressive is this one:



Also this one:



Love modern designs.  The tiny houses that are almost all unpainted wood suck.

Our current apartment is small (779 square ft.) but very functional.  I think I could go down even smaller, assuming there was enough storage space.  We don't care about having a dining area of any sort, so the additional space is used for my PC/gaming shit.  Stuck an Ikea Expedit shelf unit in the middle of the living room and divided it into living room/office areas.  Works great, although I do miss having my own little room for all my embarrassing nerd shit.   :'(

[Momo]

Yeah I nearly bought a similarly laid out apartment at the waterfront here. I just wanted to post it cause it's awesome, but the thread is mostly about houses

[Beezy]

I eat out all the time so tiny kitchen's fine by me

I bet you're either fat or frail as fuck too.

[fistfulofmetal]

he's def a skinny af white boi

[Momo]

I would enjoy a Fatdrex more than the current limp wrist frail andrex.

How does one even let one's wrists limp. That shit is like impossible for me to imagine

[Cerveza mas fina]

Really cool stuff, but so unpractical if you plan to live with more then 1 person.

Ideal bachelor pad though.

[Tasty]

I would enjoy a Fatdrex more than the current limp wrist frail andrex.

Someone's jealous.

[bork]

Really cool stuff, but so unpractical if you plan to live with more then 1 person.

Ideal bachelor pad though.

There are plenty of videos/blogs showing couples and even families happily living in these kinds of small spaces.  It's all about downsizing and getting rid of clutter.  Although with the really tiny houses, there's certainly no such thing as privacy.

Some of the cooler tiny houses actually manage to have two floors or pretty big loft areas, so it actually is possible to have separate bedrooms.

[Momo]

I would enjoy a Fatdrex more than the current limp wrist frail andrex.

Someone's jealous.

Not at all. If you were fat nobody would have mugged you because no one wants to touch fat people. This is for your own safety.

Fat + under fatmanboob sweat = invulnerable.

[Shadow Mod]

Looks cool but the stairs would annoy me fast.

[Shadow Mod]

Where the hell did the fight aptitude of fat people factor into a thread about tiny houses.

Boreans. 

[Momo]

It makes sense. FatForce = mass * acceleration.  We all know fat people are  rolling with a maxed out m stat

[Dennis]

I love everything about this. Except for perhaps the lack of a dedicated work-out room it is perfect.

Looks cool but the stairs would annoy me fast.

American detected.

[Momo]

I love everything about this. Except for perhaps the lack of a dedicated work-out room it is perfect.

You can just bench press the house itself

[brawndolicious]

I think these are great but I live in an old Victorian that was converted into 300 square foot apartments. One thing I'm not really a fan of is the modern aesthetic most of these places have.

It makes sense. FatForce = mass * acceleration.  We all know fat people are  rolling with a maxed out m stat

I think you should look at kinetic energy which is 1/2*m*v^2 so difference in speed probably makes a bigger difference.

[Momo]

I think you should look at kinetic energy which is 1/2*m*v^2 so difference in speed probably makes a bigger difference.

That's like literally the same equitation

[brawndolicious]

I think you should look at kinetic energy which is 1/2*m*v^2 so difference in speed probably makes a bigger difference.

That's like literally the same equitation

Nah you're thinking of force times distance (work). And assuming that there is an inverse relationship between weight and acceleration (obvi) , and a fixed distance to accelerate the fists (ie: b/w bed and kitchenette) , it makes sense that the lighter person could get more energy into their punches.

So if you have a really, really cramped space, I think someone with faster hands would have the advantage.

[Momo]

1/2mv^2 = ma bro.  It's the same thing

[brawndolicious]

1/2mv^2 = ma bro.  It's the same thing

just look at the units. You're saying:

kg*m/s^2=0.5*kg*m^2/s^2      (mass=kg, m=distance, s=time)

Now how about them apples?

[Momo]

My god dude, it's just a derivation of the fucking formula

F = ma,
work done = mf x s,  (i.e max) (i.e F x displacement)

WD = max
       = m * (V^2/2x) * x
       = m x V^2/2
       = 1/2 mv^2 (this is where you're getting on the boat)

Also you're literally measuring the WORK it requires to move an object X amount of distance, the fuck would you want to use this as a measure of how hard a fat guy will punch you for? Just work out the fucking Force brah. You gonna say some fat guy punches you in the face to the tune of 5000 joules?

[brawndolicious]

I think I see where you're getting mixed up. The force required to create the punch is mass*acceleration but the actual energy in the fist when it lands on a person is given by mass*acceleration*distance. Remember, acceleration and velocity are vectors and it's possible that an object in motion could even have positive velocity and negative acceleration or vice versa.

Hence, why the energy in the punch increases exponentially as acceleration increases but only increases linearly as mass increases. Theoretically, a smaller person may have higher acceleration than a larger person.

[Momo]

I think I see where you're getting mixed up. The force required to create the punch is mass*acceleration but the actual energy in the fist when it lands on a person is given by mass*acceleration*distance.

No, the force created by the mass accelerating = ma, the work/joules/energy required TO move that fat fist = m*a*displacement(x)

[Momo]

This is a fucking weird thread, fat man boob sweat, newtonian physics, but no one talks about the teeny homes   

[Dennis]

Post more tiny houses.

[bork]

The micro houses aren't practical because you will have purchase the land to build them on which in an urban area would still be expensive, then you'd be hamstringing yourself in resale value because you can only sell to other impractical people. The best you can do is hope some sensible real estate mogul comes around and levels your micro house and puts in something that people will buy. I will admit they look cool, though.

But there are people who buy them with the express purpose of living 'off-grid', away from urban areas.  Also the ones that are small enough to fit on trailers are essentially motor homes.

I know it's crazy but if my parents or brother (home owners, I'm a lowly renter) ever said "sure you can rip up a chunk of the backyard and build a tiny house!" I'd totally do it.   

[bork]

Post more tiny houses.

Here's the two most famous tiny apartments. The 78 sq. ft. place is NUTS.



90 sq. ft. apartment.  She ended up getting evicted sometime after the video went viral-- turns out the lease she was on was not the right one and they wanted more money, so she's in a 500 sq. ft. condo now.

[bork]

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[bork]

They've also starting putting actual stair cases in the tiny houses.  Works much better that way, I think.

http://tinyhouseswoon.com/molecule-tiny-house/

[bork]

This one has two "full" floors.

[bork]

"Ikea" tiny house.  Basically a prefab home with all furnishings from Ikea.


This is the closest to the kind of place I'd want.  All modern. 

[bork]

What's the outside look like? Is it just a double-wide? These are bad juju in Oklahoma.

[bork]

http://www.tinyhouseofstyle.com/2013/11/12/5-modern-tiny-house-designs-we-love/

Good stuff there, too.

[bork]

Continuing with the tiny house porn.  Love this 500 sq. ft. house.

This was built in one of the couple's parents' backyard, so they didn't have to spring for the land. 










Would totally ditch the garage in favor of making it into another room.

[Dennis]

500 sqft may be small for a house but it absolutely fine the apartments I have lived in so I could easily live in one of these.

Of course once you have kids you would have a problem.......

[bork]

500 sqft may be small for a house but it absolutely fine the apartments I have lived in so I could easily live in one of these.

Of course once you have kids you would have a problem.......

It would be a tight fit, but in a house like that one it could certainly work.  Turning the garage into a kids' room would be the way to go.  I think in that case it would be all about the outside and surrounding areas.  If there's nowhere for the kids to play and/or if it's a shitty climate, that would really suck.

Here's a 320 sq. ft. house that a family of three lived in. 



They ended up remodling it to give their kid a bigger bedroom.



Although IIRC they ended up ditching the house and moving to Germany.

[bork]

Micro house as a fancy guest house is a great idea, actually. You could make a killing on AirBnB depending where you live.

Yeah, that is true.  My folks even live right near two train stations and we're in an area that's very rapidly developing.  Some are thinking it might end up becoming the next Buckhead (Atlanta's upscale shopping/dining/living area).  Hell, we already live right down the road from them now.  But they don't exactly have the best backyard for this kind of thing and it would take a lot of work.

[bork]

Asked my wife if she would ever consider that kind of living situation and got a resounding "NO!"     She's not opposed to the idea of living in a small house though.

[Momo]

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[bork]

http://tinyhousetalk.com/simple-living-800-sq-ft-small-house/







 

[Rufus]

The bathroom is bigger than mine.

[bork]

The bathroom is bigger than mine.

It can be like that in smaller dwellings-- the last apartment I was in was small (current one is even smaller!) but had a pretty big bathroom, complete with a walk-in closet.  Was weird but we weren't complaining!

I read somewhere that small places with bigger bathrooms and kitchens usually yield the most satisfying results.  Makes sense, I guess.  The local IKEA has a small apartment mock up (like 320 sq. ft.) that has a pretty large kitchen area and bathroom.  The living room is what's tiny.