Tiny houses, usually smaller than 500 square feet, were all the rage a few years ago. The pandemic has made people re-evaluate what is important, and retirees, widows and single women are driving much of the demand today for tiny homes.
When my husband, Dale and I moved in 2007 to our 480-square-foot lake cabin in the Ozark Mountains, we had no idea we would accidentally become trend setters. Our original plan was to build another 1,000-square-foot home and use the cabin as my office and a guesthouse.
“We’re still here,” says Kent Griswold, 63, who lives in Bend, Ore., and is the founder of the Tiny House Blog, which is believed to be one of the first blogs about tiny houses. “The movement hasn’t stopped growing, it’s just not in the public eye as much anymore.”People are still finding big satisfaction in living small John Olafson, 60, and his wife, Staci, 53, live with their black Lab mix, Samson, in 450 square-feet in Shelton, Wash.
Olafson described the cabin, which was originally built as a 12×20 picnic shelter that was eventually enclosed and expanded with a bath and bedroom, as a shell. Art Laubach, organizer of the Colorado Tiny House Festival and owner of Einstyne Tiny Homes, says the festival has grown from builders showing 28 homes the first year in 2018 to 55 to 65 homes in the following years.
Griswold agrees, but says instead of just the novelty of people looking for tiny homes on wheels, which really drove the movement during the 2007-09 recession, people are looking at other ways to live small.
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