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Micro Homes

pjcnet said:
Nice idea, but unless you're well off you'd still need a loan and I think you'd struggle to get a secured loan / mortgage on that. There are of course permanent caravans which are effectively a similar thing that have existed for many years, some can be even cheaper.
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Not to mention a non-standard in$urance market that would have to accompany the mortgage. Getting it built is one hurdle. Dealing with the legal bureaucracy is another.

And if such construction ever caught on in great numbers you'd have the home construction lobby all over it on Capitol Hill trying to make them illegal. :rolleyes:

No question there's some real obstacles in seriously pursuing it. But I still find them physically fascinating. With affordability over size. A compromise I suspect a lot of people would be willing to entertain.
 
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Judge said:
What I find so interesting is how interior designers may figure some very clever ways to optimize such limited space. I was thinking about that the other night watching Matt Damon in "The Martian". Bunks, stowage containers, bookcases, etc..

The smaller the space, the bigger the challenge.
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Or Gene Kelly in his apartment in 'an american in paris'
 
Judge said:
Not quite what I had in mind, but whatever floats your boat. :p

Definitely a challenge!


Not with MY OCD. :eek:
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Not my boat as such but,similar to the guy transcribing his initials on livers, marked forever on my brain
 
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I don't mind minimal, but I need a small bedroom-sized space for my Joes/art studio/library/home office/man cave. Most micros that I have seen won't accommodate that.
 
Crossbreed said:
I don't mind minimal, but I need a small bedroom-sized space for my Joes/art studio/library/home office/man cave. Most micros that I have seen won't accommodate that.
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Good point. Not likely to be a lot of excess wall space under such circumstances. Art, bookcases...etc. might have to come at the expense of less windows if made to spec.

Having a small workshop for my hobbies...yeah, that may prove difficult.
 
The UK came up with a world first for cheap micro homes, even with limited resource and rationing post WW2. The prefabs were designed to house many thousands of people and families who had lost their homes due to bombings as part of the "Temporary Housing Programme", but I remember some still being lived in near where I lived as child in the 1970s before they were finally demolished:

For more please visit the website for the prefab museum:

The Prefab Museum – Celebrating and recording Britain's post-war prefabs

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