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TH Swoon Crew, my brother and I built what we are hoping will be the safest and most sustainable Tiny House. I collaborated with some engineering friends here in the Boston area, to make sure the home complies with wide range of codes and regulations (e.g., building, energy, fire, life safety, transportation).
This is the first home to be built using exterior continuous insulation, which helps the home me the same energy codes as a full-size house!
A tiny house built with exterior continuous insulation in Boston. Built by Tracey and Trever Powell. More info. here.
I’m not crazy about it. Although I like some of the details and I like the materials, the layout just isn’t for me. I always see areas like the back end like that as a wasted space/wasted opportunity. Especially since there already is so little room to work with. This feels more like a toy or a class project than something intended for living. It’s pretty, but no. I like the bathroom (despite the fact that i’ve heard mostly negative things about incinerating toilets). Feels like a hallway that was re-purposed into a break room.
I think it would work great if you spent most of your day away from home.
No. It’s not “high tech.” Nor is it comfortable. If I had to describe the decor, it would be “air liner restroom”. And it looks like you need to be perpendicular to everything. If you put something like this together to send people to mars, they’d never make it. By choice.
Maybe I am overlooking it,but what would be the price on this? I love it!
The fit and finish of this tiny house is absolutely top notch! Obviously, a tremendous amount of time, effort and money ($65K in materials! Wow!) went into building this TN and it shows. That said, I am not a fan of its layout. I think it breaks some golden rules of TN design. One being to avoid creating “hallways”. The entire house feels like one big hallway. Another feature of good TN designs is lots of windows to create a sense of openness. This tiny house’s almost complete absence of windows makes the space feel unusually confining . The designers of this TN managed to cram in every feature/appliance you could ever want in a TN, but IMO, missed the bigger design goal of creating an inviting/livable space. It’s a shame because their ability to create something beautiful and unique still shines through, in spite of these criticisms.
Looks like an industrial kitchen on wheels with bad chi due to the long coridor running right through the building. The pointed painting, on the outside, does not add any eyepleasing harmony. There is a lack of harmony where features have just been “thrown” into the building because they need to be there without any consideration to “cozyness”. And not “high tech”. The ice-cold colors are not inviting.
It strikes me, that there is a lack of complementary contrasts.
I like it! The floor plan looks good. A couple tweaks — I’d leave out the murphy bed and use a day bed with storage drawers underneath, and larger windows so one gets a view of the outdoors. Also modify/reduce the tv/desk built-in to have room for a comphy chair & table. But over-all a lot here to work with. Thanks for sharing!
deck space should be a bedroom with sliding door. Murphy bed isn’t good idea for this tiny house.
Love the storage and lighting. Where would one sleep? Is that a mattress behind the seating? Too narrow, but much prettier inside than out.
I wasn’t that impressed and then I saw the incinerator toilet!
Seriously what ecoterrorist invented a device that uses energy to destroy a valuable resource!! It’s beyond insanity and selfishness and is lunatic criminality. If you can’t put a dry toilet in a micro house you’re reallynot trying hard enough.
There are three advantages, first the ash can still be used as fertilizer to return minerals to the soil, second there is no problems deposing your waste anywhere without violating local laws, third you claim eco-terrorist without considering the eco-damage untreated sewage from a traveling tiny home can cause as it moves around different states/countries. And before you harp on decomposing toilets have you seen the mess/smell they make when someone does not handle them right?
I am going incinerating myself, that way I don’t worry about what my guests will do wrong if I lend them my tiny house.