am I doing???? I feel like this sometimes, and perhaps rightly so. Then, I find a little gem like this video and I like the path so much more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZM2G-PfEbc
I would like to meet this woman! Anyone know where she is?
I have noticed that there seems to be some interesting disparity and attitudes, even amoung members of the Tiny House Community on something. On one hand, you buy a flat trailer, build a cool little house on it, and live simply and are called quirky, forward thinking and green. But, taking a 26 foot school bus and building it out as a tiny house as well gets you the hippie, trailer trash, vagabond, low life etc. It's all very confusing. Perhaps I am missing the point, but is there really a difference here? And for that matter, what about the people who have chosen to live in small pull behinds and 5th wheels? Why are they somehow of a lower class that the aforementioned little house builder? Which, by the way, has it's very foundation on a trailer :) I think some of those very people seem to have forgotten what is under that new house of theirs. Thoughts?
I know that Dee Williams did a construction workshop last year in Portland.
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The thing about these tumbleweed shaped tiny houses is that most people, even the chronically mainstream, can recognize them as something familiar. The message they're sending is that they still want the same while the other message that you're sending out (whether you want to or not) is that you want something different. That's offensive to people. I've read some Daniel Quinn books (free here) recently and it's becoming even more clear to me why things are this way.
I agree! I live in a single wide mobile home in the middle of a ten acre grove of giant bamboo and it is gorgeous, but I am sure I am looked down upon because it is a swmh...it's called being a snob, but at least I don't have a mortgage weighing me down in my retirement years like many folks still do. I think I get the last laugh on this one! ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt has to be even greener as buying an existing "building" is recycling. Maybe that's why the different label. Either way, I think it's very smart, redoing your bus. Kudos to you!
ReplyDeletePortland, Oregon. Dee Williams lives in Portland, Oregon, and she has started up a company with another lady called Portland Alternative Dwellings (PAD). Website is http://portlandalternativedwellings.com/
ReplyDeleteThanks Donna, I have since found Dee :-)
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