Tiny House Designs – Avoid The Amazing Maze In Your Tiny House Plan
Oh, and I want this, and I want that… oh, and this too! Whoops, wait a second… are you trying to fit everything you had in your big house into the blueprint of your small house?
Tiny home living is gaining traction in our economy and with the push for green building. Saving money and saving the earth is all the rage. Small houses can help. But with small houses your way of thinking has to change. It’s a big mistake to try to keep everything you had in the bigger house and just scale it all down.
The house that is not for sale
There is a house on the market in our neighborhood that just sits there. No one seems to want to touch it. A walk through almost gives you the willies. It’s all cut off. There is no flow or opening and you never seem to know where you are. It’s like the Winchester Mystery House… a bit fascinating but totally uninhabitable. it’s a maze
And that’s why it’s not for sale. There is no flow. A well-designed home is friendly, warm, has a certain synergy, and is just, well… deliverable.
Tiny house plans should be open and flowing
By flowing, I’m not talking about a river gorge where the water from a sudden downpour is roaring through a narrow channel. Think of a gentle wave on a calm beach lapping up the sand.
The smaller the house, the more critical this openness and flow becomes. And it is not achieved by giving up your desires, but by removing the separation of your desires in your own identities. Let me explain.
Shared Rooms and Combined Functions
The objective is to create living areas within the same space or room. The result is fewer rooms with the same living areas that complement the way you live. For example; a bedroom that accommodates a reading area, a computer station or a meditation retreat… or whatever is important to your lifestyle.
That’s just one of many ideas. Flow, in a small house, has more to do with the smooth movement from one side of a room to the other and to the other, from “station to station” than from room to room. All stations are visible, but each has its own style, purpose, and unimpeded access.
So, you can certainly get what you want while living within your ideals and choosing to live in a tiny house.
