clintmartin
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Tiny house
Anyone following this new craze. I must admit they're pretty cool. The wife and I like looking at different houses and are basically HGTV fanatics so...we went and looked at a few tiny houses. They were 400 sq ft. (580 with a porch) and around $66,000. I told her that I really thought I could do it, if we add a nice little studio off to the side. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out a movie on Netflix called Tiny (a story about living small).
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slartabartfast
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 13:28:32
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I lived in a house smaller than that from 1967-1995 that was built in 1927. Nobody called it a "tiny house," and it was certainly not part of some recent craze
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 13:49:57
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Not for me. I certainly don't have a big house, but I'm completely not interested in 400 sq ft!
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 15:39:55
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I watch that channel as well and have seen that program several times. I was thinking that one of those Tiny Houses would make a nice Studio addition to the back yard. 😄
I'm with you Reece, I don't have a huge house or need a huge house, but that would be two small for me. At 6'-4" tall and 225lbs, I don't do tiny cars any more and I don't think I would enjoy tiny living spaces. I just spent 8 days in cabins and that grows old after a while.
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craigb
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 18:17:39
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I'd like to get into the bigger house craze.
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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clintmartin
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 19:03:30
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I'm not planning on getting one either, but I enjoy looking. It's amazing how many people are doing it long term.
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 19:30:34
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I already fell for the tiny van down by the river craze
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clintmartin
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 19:36:19
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craigb
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 19:47:17
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Too bad they didn't include an outside picture of the house...
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clintmartin
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/02 19:56:02
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/03 00:09:40
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I live in a small studio and have done for about 9 years. Primarily because the rent is cheap & stabilized (I pay less than $1000/month which is nuts for Manhattan) but also because I've really come to love living in a small, compact space. a) Everything is within reach. I don't have to hike up and down stairs to get things, or indeed from room to room (unless it's something in the bathroom) b) It's so easy to keep clean and tidy. Takes me about an hour and a half to do a thorough clean and tidy (dusting, sweeping, floor cleaning, all surfaces, bathroom, put everything away etc. c) Because of the limited storage space I have to really think about what I need and what I don't need. There's no hoarding of crap when you live in a small apartment. Every year I find myself giving away or selling so much stuff that's outlived its usefulness, or that's been superseded by some bright shiny new version. I really love filling bags of things I don't need any more, then gazing upon clean and organized shelves and cupboards. Girlfriend wise it's not ideal but then again my girlfriend doesn't live with me - if she did it would probably feel a lot more cramped. As it is she's over here most evenings and we have a great time without it getting too claustrophobic. There are disadvantages to where I live, for sure. I have to think about the noise I'm making which means no midnight mixing sessions. And although it's the trendy East Village, technically it's a block away from the projects which means there's often hairy stuff going down, like the guy who got shot in the stomach around the corner a few weeks ago and ran into the deli downstairs gushing blood like a scene out of Goodfellas. But other than that I'm super-duper happy living in a cubicle.
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clintmartin
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/03 09:13:58
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That's pretty cheap for Manhattan. So your on the lower east side? I haven't been down there yet. We've been talking about going back to NYC sometime and I would like to check some of that out. I want to go to 'The Bitter End' and catch a show.
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/03 09:24:45
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It's almost like living in the UK without the craze no? My wife & I also love watching HGTV, what we can't figure out is how the prices on homes in various countries are almost identical to the prices here in the US (even the (economically) poorest of countries).
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sharke
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/03 12:10:48
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clintmartin That's pretty cheap for Manhatton. So your on the lower east side? I haven't been down there yet. We've been talking about going back to NYC sometime and I would like to check some of that out. I want to go to 'The Bitter End' and catch a show.
Not sure if it's the Lower East Side technically, I always considered that to be south of Houston St while I'm on the north side. It's Alphabet City, part of the East Village. This was once a very dicey neighborhood, if you look at photos of it in the 70's and 80's it looked kind of like the Bronx - lots of derelict and half collapsed buildings, a bit like Beirut. Lots of landlords torching their buildings for the insurance money, crack dealers on every corner, that sort of thing. It's gentrifying now and there are lots of cool eateries and cafes as well as fancy condos going up, even on Avenue D! But you still hear the occasional gunfire coming from the projects. I remember when I first moved here, it was a lot more ghettoey than previous NYC neighborhoods I'd lived in (Upper West Side, Midtown etc) and I was a little nervous (probably also to do with the primo weed I was smoking back then). The first week I was here I was leaning out of my window on the phone to someone and heard a huge sickening bang. Looked to my right and a whole apartment on the 20th floor of a block just across Houston St was exploding in a Die Hard style fireball. Turns out some guy pulled a murder suicide on his family. Didn't exactly do anything to soothe my reservations about moving downtown
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craigb
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Re: Tiny house
2015/08/03 12:57:34
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You still couldn't pay me to live in an area like that!
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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