Tuff Shed | The Calumet

576 Sq. Feet

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$27,489

This price includes delivery in the Houston Area. You provide land, foundation. You then do the work on the inside.

When you boil it down, the Porsches most of us own are are as good as it gets in both respects. Anything that lasts this long and is as fuel efficient can't be considered excessive.

Reduce reuse recycle. .. old cars.

They do look a little out of their element in a road side R V park.

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Those kinds of "off the shelf" units are exactly what this movement should NOT be. I doubt anyone wants a landscape of dollhouses or "mini-mes". The design of these units should involve thought and effort into crafting an entirely new typeology - not re-scaling something that's already been done for an entirely different program.

A custom designed mini or micro house only adds about $5k-$10k to the cost and yields a MUCH better end product.

You look up the price of this "tiny house" and figure out real quick that someone is making a killing selling them, and someone is getting raked over the coals when buying it. I think this particular TH was in the $50,000 range on one of the shows.

I think the young, enthusiastic, nieve, liberal arts majors with a lean towards wholistic healing, and veganism are the ones getting taken for a ride on this trip.....fine with me, just don't waste MY money.

Something like this? ;)
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Like in mobile homes, the good things about prefab factories is costs can be kept lower by reducing/recycling waste and assembly tolerances can be closely monitored by the company. Even if the wood is wet when assembled, the defects will be known before they get on site.

Take a low-tech, stick built house and put it on a trailer - how creative is that? This looks like a parade float.
I always thought it would be fun to design and built an efficient, featherweight camp trailer. I wouldn't want to live in it though.

I lived in a monopoly house once. I was green with envy at my neighbor's hotel. He was red with embarrassment at the size of his abode.

I'll be here all week folks, happy new year!

The wife and I just bought land on a lake outside of NYC (we're told it's not upstate, but greater metropolitan area even though it's in the middle of wooded hills and far from everywhere). Anyway, we're building a home that I envisioned would be small, nice, and with big garage. The wife got ahold of it and now it's huge, but kept my nice garage. Negotiations continue...

Yeah, have you priced new Airstreams lately? They're expensive!

I'm in and already live in what most North Americans would consider a tiny house

In the UK houses are tiny and very old, my old family home growing up was built in the 1500's and our family home now is +225 years young, stone built 3 bed, packed with character. Inside we have an oak spiral staircase, oak ceiling beams, Cotswold stone floor slabs, wide oak floorboards, big Inglenook stone fireplace, a small bakers oven, a dry stone well and a couple of stained glass windows. I'm sure our living room is the same size as most people's utility cupboards.

I envy some of the garage/workshops I see on here but I wouldn't want to swap location for more space.

My other mountain house is even smaller but I just open the doors and let the big Alpine scenery in or look out the window at the view and it makes me feel like my house is the biggest in the world.

I would love to build a tiny house, use all my experience from packaging race car components into the smallest spaces possible to make a house that has no wasted space and lots of innovative features. Not somewhere to live in all the time just a weekend retreat away from the distractions of all the junk that comes with living in a big, cluttered, noisy, polluted world. Would need to be in a location where the scenery was spectacular and requires a bit of effort to get to it.

I'd love to see some pics of that old place, Ahab. Sounds really nice.

I have been looking at this quite a bit lately.

South Carolina would like my company to re-locate there and is providing a very positive incentive package. We meet again in Columbia on the 20th of this month for a proposal tune-up before getting approval in March.

My partner and I figure I'll need to be down there at least two week a month, probably more like three when we get started. The transition from our current facility to SC will take over a year.

I don't plan on moving down there permanently and while hotels or renting seems wasteful, buying additional property would be idiotic. My plan is to find either an RV or outfit the new facility with a"tiny house" - either fixed or on wheels.

Lots of options. I'll get serious after January.

Talented architect tackles the tiny house and comes up with a mini gem : TreeHugger

Tiny houses vs. campers & trailers: Which is better? (Survey) : TreeHugger

small stone houses rock!!:p

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Very interesting articles over on the TreeHugger site Paul. Thanks for that link.

One of the frequent comments there that intrigues me is that making the tiny house into a R V is an advantage. This may be the case in some ways. But in my hunt for a piece of property for a base camp for my R V based live style I'm find that lots of desirable areas have restrictions about parking R Vs or Trailers.

So building the tiny house to fit the R V specs is a bit self defeating. Being in a grey area is more of an issue the closer to towns, lakes, coasts you get.

Also I think Vash mentioned it earlier. This sleeping loft so common in tiny houses is not for me at all. No ladders for me to go to bed.

Captain, your place does sound to be charming and loaded with character. Share a pic or two if you are comfortable.

Cheers Richard

most I have seen are just fancy trailers...if it has wheels it's a trailer. Lets call it what it is..

Man, those tiny stone houses knock me out. Must take a lot of skilled work to build such a structure. Beautiful!

There was a mention about the costs of new Airstreams. Yes they are costly. And unfortunately at this point being owned by Thor industries, they seem to be cutting back on the qualities that made the brand the pinnacle it once was. But with the reputation they have earned in better times, and their iconic status, the prices keep climbing. A familure theme?

Cheers Richard

I looked up Oxfordshire Ahab. Cool looking place!
I like your shoes.

I lived quite happily in this little house for 20 years. I wasn't used to having much space, so I didn't know what I was missing out on.

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For us the idea of a tiny house is about cutting expenses. We like to travel so a big home isn't necessary, and cutting our living costs by half or more would allow us to retire or semi retire much earlier. Thuy loves the tiny homes on wheels, but I don't like the loft layout, and honestly I think most of those would pull like a ton of bricks if you actually traveled with it. Our compromise seems to be a shipping container house on a nice lot somewhere, and an Airstream to travel in.


This is the plan we are liking the most right now. Built out of 2 48' long High cube containers you'd get around 800sqft. I like the containers because your structure is ready made, durable, and relatively cheap.
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Two Shipping Containers Turned into a Small House