Comments on: Seven Tiny House Options

By: Kathleen D Parker

Kathleen D Parker — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:54:20 +0000

Here in the east, we have state parks that allow camping. Most are really beautiful, the biggest obstacle being their time constraints. Two weeks in, one week out. That would essentially require an alternative career path. But if you can work from your “home” than a situation like a park is viable.

By: Small Living Journal , Archive » Future Parking Options…

Small Living Journal , Archive » Future Parking Options… — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:07:10 +0000

[...] Finding land to park a tiny house is challenging and the ranch would be a perfect parking spot. But that will have to wait a few years… [...]

By: sunrise

sunrise — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:31:54 +0000

I live in an RV park on the coast of NC-surrounding are what you make of them-my RV is 8/24 ft-I have all the convinces-for the last several yrs I have investigated the container house concept-they are totally environmentally friendly-they sit on the docks of every port in the world just taking up space-they are inexpensive to purchase and move-can be attracted to a movable frame like an RV-but in my area much more hurricane resistant-I have found the concept in many other counties and also here but no where have I been able to find plans for the wiring and plumbing aspects-I have done quite a bit of home renovations and enjoy the work-if anyone knows of information in this area please forward view_the_sunrise@hotmail.com with the container one could utilize the living area to there own taste.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:14:22 +0000

thanks for the comments. I was wondering the same thing (parking). I live in SoCal, but I grew up near SF. I have an Aunt in Portland. I’d like to move up that way (SF or Portland). My aunt doesn’t have a yard. I looked at space in Oregon City. I like the concept of a “tiny house village.” I suppose, if one got a standard lot (usually about 70′ by 100′) you could fit six or eight tiny houses with space for gardening and general yard. I have a standard “ranch style” house on a lot of 70′ x 100′ and I’ve been thinking a lot about down sizing.

Somehow, the cost of commercial composting toilets needs to come down. I think the saw dust toilet works fine, with the exception of actually composting the stuff (ie, I’d be more than comfortable to set up a compost bin in my yard, like the Humanure guy, but most city’s are still to rigid about human waste).

On another note, one could add passive solar oven and water heater to save energy.