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Title: How does a 360 ft2 home sound to you?
Post by: CG6468 on May 05, 2011, 03:26:53 PM: Developer bets people will buy tiny 'micro-homes'

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAeiVL_SVMY[/youtube]

I'll bet people WON'T buy crackerboxes, except for the environazies.
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Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 05, 2011, 03:39:52 PM: Bobo's Buick is bigger than that.
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Post by: DumbAss Tanker on May 05, 2011, 03:43:46 PM: Sounds like all the space of a small efficiency, aka 'Studio,' apartment with all the problems of home ownership added in. Still, I suppose there is some small market for it.

(Can't watch the video right now, perhaps there's a better explanation of the concept in that)
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Post by: Chris_ on May 05, 2011, 03:45:23 PM: A fool and his money...

$100k for something the size of my apartment. No thanks. You can blame Portland's land-use regulations for the high prices and lack of real estate.
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Post by: NHSparky on May 05, 2011, 03:51:48 PM: OVER $300 sq/ft? On what planet do these idiots live?
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Post by: Karin on May 05, 2011, 03:54:08 PM: $100K? This will be a failed business venture. Won't be investing.
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Post by: Chris_ on May 05, 2011, 03:55:02 PM: There are companies that build and sell those little homes and the price is usually $20-50k depending on the size.
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Post by: NHSparky on May 05, 2011, 03:55:51 PM: Quote from: Karin on May 05, 2011, 03:54:08 PM
$100K? This will be a failed business venture. Won't be investing.

Karin--watch the video--the SMALL houses are going for $120K to $180K for the 680 ft2 "2 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath" model.
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Post by: DefiantSix on May 05, 2011, 03:57:01 PM: Quote from: chris_ on May 05, 2011, 03:45:23 PM
A fool and his money...

$100k for something the size of my apartment. No thanks. You can blame Portland's land-use regulations for the high prices and lack of real estate.

I see I wasn't the only one who's jaw hit the desk when I saw this:

(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa200/DefiantSix/Microhome.jpg)
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Post by: JohnnyReb on May 05, 2011, 04:14:56 PM: ...and they make fun of folks in a double wide.
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Post by: MrsSmith on May 05, 2011, 04:21:35 PM: After a quick search of Portland real estate, I'm willing to bet these places sell. I found 3 properties in this price range, one specified contractors, so was a dump. The other 2 were 1 bedroom "units" that advertised "walk to everything" and home owner's association dues...so probably the size of these houses. This helps me remember what's NOT wrong with Kansas!!
Title: Re: How does a 360 ft2 home sound to you?
Post by: DefiantSix on May 05, 2011, 04:59:22 PM: Quote from: MrsSmith on May 05, 2011, 04:21:35 PM
After a quick search of Portland real estate, I'm willing to bet these places sell. I found 3 properties in this price range, one specified contractors, so was a dump. The other 2 were 1 bedroom "units" that advertised "walk to everything" and home owner's association dues...so probably the size of these houses. This helps me remember what's NOT wrong with Kansas!!

Portland and the rest of the Northwest has gone much the same way as the worst elements of Kalifunny in the last 15-20 years. Hell, Portland is where Kalifunnians go when they're too kwazy for SanFranSicko.
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Post by: Evil_Conservative on May 05, 2011, 09:08:04 PM: Good luck with those sales.

We will enjoy an average sized home for $80K. Can you even fit a couch in a 360 sqft home?
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Post by: Alpha Mare on May 05, 2011, 09:45:05 PM: Tiny Texas Houses (http://http://www.tinytexashouses.com/index.html)

My son's going to build his own AFTER he helps finish mine.
Title: Re: How does a 360 ft2 home sound to you?
Post by: Chris_ on May 05, 2011, 09:47:01 PM: This is the one I came across.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

The only way you could get me to live in one of those is if it was so far out in the country that nobody could steal it or knock it over. And it better be cheap, too. Just think of all the outbuildings you would need to store your crap in to make it livable.
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Post by: debk on May 06, 2011, 09:57:49 AM: These remind me of the apartment/condos that are in Japan.

If anyone here ever watches "House Hunters International" on HGTV, this is about the size of a lot of the places people are looking at in Japan, Thailand, and a few other places in SE Asia. Very expensive!!!

Maybe the developers are trying to appeal to those from over there who are working in the NW. It's what they are used to at home, that are less expensive than at home.

I could rent one, maybe....they are about the size of my efficiency apartment I had in college...but I sure wouldn't buy one.
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Post by: Celtic Rose on May 06, 2011, 11:43:47 AM: Quote from: debk on May 06, 2011, 09:57:49 AM
These remind me of the apartment/condos that are in Japan.

If anyone here ever watches "House Hunters International" on HGTV, this is about the size of a lot of the places people are looking at in Japan, Thailand, and a few other places in SE Asia. Very expensive!!!

Maybe the developers are trying to appeal to those from over there who are working in the NW. It's what they are used to at home, that are less expensive than at home.

I could rent one, maybe....they are about the size of my efficiency apartment I had in college...but I sure wouldn't buy one.

I agree, they could make decent temporary housing for single people. I could see living in one short term, could be better than renting a room and they seem pretty comparable to a small studio apartment.
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Post by: compaqxp on May 06, 2011, 01:52:00 PM: I lived in something that small in my younger years, never again.

I can't go much smaller then my current house which is quite small
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Post by: thelaughingman on May 06, 2011, 03:44:42 PM: They should've marketed these things in Japan. Seriously.
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Post by: longview on May 07, 2011, 08:47:13 AM: I think that's about the size of some cow camps I've summered in. Even with three kids. But we didn't stay inside much and the scenery around us was beyond beautiful.

I'm running into people, retired and most often single, who are living full-time in fifth-wheel campers. Some have been doing it for several years and really like it. Staying in one place at RV parks. My house, at 912 sq. ft., is about small enough and it's basically for sleeping and cooking.
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Post by: thelaughingman on May 07, 2011, 11:41:52 PM: You know, it's interesting. We have laws that state that farm animals are required to have a certain amount of space to live in, yet if you want to build homes like this, no one thinks twice. We treat animals better than people.
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Post by: Alpha Mare on May 08, 2011, 02:35:27 AM: Quote from: thelaughingman on May 07, 2011, 11:41:52 PM
You know, it's interesting. We have laws that state that farm animals are required to have a certain amount of space to live in, yet if you want to build homes like this, no one thinks twice. We treat animals better than people.

Not the animals that end up at my place.
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Post by: LC EFA on May 08, 2011, 03:38:09 AM: My workshop is circa 650 sq feet. It cost about $35K to construct and is pretty much bombproof.

The hell would I pay triple that for half the space for ?
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Post by: vesta111 on May 08, 2011, 08:11:53 AM: Quote from: longview on May 07, 2011, 08:47:13 AM
I think that's about the size of some cow camps I've summered in. Even with three kids. But we didn't stay inside much and the scenery around us was beyond beautiful.

I'm running into people, retired and most often single, who are living full-time in fifth-wheel campers. Some have been doing it for several years and really like it. Staying in one place at RV parks. My house, at 912 sq. ft., is about small enough and it's basically for sleeping and cooking.

It is not about the space but the amazing things one with vision can do with it.

.Murphy beds have been around for 100 years, Mirrors in strategic places fool the eye as to space , then there is the wallpaper like door covering that fool the eye to believe that the door is half open and another big room on the other side. One big blank wall, build a shadow box with floor to ceiling prints of landscape with light behind it, one can be living in down town Detroit and give the illusion you are living on the sea coast or the middle of the forest.

Paint color can make a room look much bigger or even smaller and more cosy.

We bought a used travel travel trailer with a horrid design, 6' by 28' The bathroom had a 4' bath tub and had we replaced it with a small shower we could have gained big space in the bathroom. Th kitchen set up was compact good size electric referagerator--also ran of propane, plenty of space ---BUT--- across from it they had installed another bench and table that was used as sleeping space for 2 small people. The main area at the front was a U shaped affair with a seating arrangement around a fold down table to expand the whole deal to a king size bed.

Tandem wheels 8 total windows, 2 sky lights. Very nice for a weekend but we should have gutted the whole thing and placed the inside back to front.----

Today I really enjoy checking out the for sale motor homes, boats and 5 wheel rigs for ideas for my home.
I think some of the designers have lived on Submarines as some of the space saving ideas are pure genius.
Title: Re: How does a 360 ft2 home sound to you?
Post by: CG6468 on May 08, 2011, 08:17:12 AM: I don't want a place where you have to step outside to change your mind.
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Post by: Eupher on May 10, 2011, 03:27:51 PM: Mrs E and I have waaaay more house than we need, but the eventual downsizing will be painful.
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Post by: JohnnyReb on May 10, 2011, 07:14:51 PM: I had fellow work for me once that lived in an old 8'x35' mobile home. He had a wife and raised 2 kids in that home....then when the kids were about gone, he bought a 12'x54'.

In 1953 my daddy bought a 8'x35' mobile home at an auction sale. I was a kid and I loved playing in that thing. Daddy sold it, a 1951 Cadillac and a clip on bumper hitch to a fellow. The fellow left our house pulling that thing.