Tiny house movement — downsizing with a passion

HAVE YOU ever been in a house with a walk-in closet so large that you jokingly remarked, “I could live in this closet?” For a growing number of people, that huge walk-in closet may contain more square footage than their new “tiny house.” What is a tiny house? The tiny house movement? Tiny living? It is a social movement in which people are choosing to downsize – sometimes drastically. The typical American home is around 2,600 square feet, while the typical small or tiny house is between 100 and 400 square feet. Tiny houses come in all shapes, sizes and forms, but they enable simpler living in a smaller, and some say, more efficient space. People are joining this movement for many reasons, but the […]