Tiny Home with NO loft

For many reasons, some people just don't want a loft in their tiny home living.  Those with physical limitations (young or old) who just cannot maneuver a ladder or small stair case, OR, just don't want to.  

Think about going up and down a ladder every time you needed to use the bathroom in the middle of the

night - for a Boomer like me, that is just an accident waiting to happen.





Because of this I have been focusing on creating plans that are functional for long term use that DO NOT have lofts.  

This one has a 2 step raised platform for the queen size bed.  Under the platform is built in storage, a pull out 2 rise step, and a twin size day bed. 

The kitchen has an apartment size stove with oven, microwave, and apartment size refrigerator/freezer.

The bathroom has a roll-in shower for handicap accessibility and a toilet and sink with plenty of light.  This design has the space to put a stacking washer/dryer if you give up the full-size sofa for a love seat. 

The taller and slanted ceiling gives more vertical volume that provides the home with a more spacious feel.

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Tiny House - What does that mean in 2016?

Tiny Houses have become such a big thing in our culture over the last decade that there are now specific labels to define what kind of tiny house you might be talking about. Here is a small lesson - 


 "Micro" can include anything from a pimped out "Tear Drop" trailer to a shed, a treehouse, or van camping. It is really "micro" in size, but still meant to at least sleep and eat in.



"Tiny" includes a couple of distinctions, those on wheels and those on a permanent foundation.

  

• "T.H.O.W. is a tiny house on wheels.  These can be structures built with traditional building materials, or they can be house-trucks, buses, or any other driveable or towable device that has had a conversion and are meant to be lived in.

A standard "Tiny House" would be any "Tiny" structure built on some type of permanent foundation, and typically no larger than 500 sq. ft.

"Small" is a small structure.  

• Larger than a tiny home and smaller than the traditional small single family residence of 1,000 sq.ft.
• Can include apartments and condos
• Can be cottages
• Can be container homes
• Can be cob design
• Can be dome structures
• And yes, it can even be a Yurt.

Hope you feel better prepared to have a discussion about "tiny homes".  Keep looking.  Keep Learning. Live small on purpose.

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Container Homes have hit the big time!

Container City - London!

Container City II

It is incredible that a large metro center like London, England has embraced such an "outside" the proverbial box method of meeting some of their housing and commercial needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2p_ux8ER0&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs

BBC Broadcasting Offices

Medical facilities, schools, worship centers, offices, restaurants . . . 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hou5_w60Lew

Hornimans School

What a creative way to Reuse-Repurpose-Recycle a box.






Come on Amarillo, TX - It's time to start offering some affordable living and working solutions.  (Oh yes, and trendy and smart looking too.)

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Linda Quiggle holds a BS of Interior Design and and MBA in Marketing.  She currently works and lives in Amarillo/Canyon , TX

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