tiny house movement
is part of a social endeavor where people choose to downsize the space they
live in
the typical American family home today is about 2600 square feet were told
all tiny homes can range from just one hundred
to 400 square feet they come in all shapes and forms
but just one size small with the focus on simplified living
in tonight's making here report connecting point producer Dave Fraser
this is a man from Wilbraham who is building his first
tiny house him
tiny house living is actually scaling down
from a these grandiose ways to
a paring down too much easier simpler life
I've always been interested in now living spaces
I my way my wife is well she's been interested in
and how we you space a few years ago we
we stumbled upon this gentleman now starting a project and we we are very
rare nah met with the
and started exploring the possibilities a
make your own so here I am walking into
what is now really the kitchen already a tiny houses really technically on
a anything under 500 square feet
that's what they a tiny houses in america
so this is really the living space its
its small as you can see you know I'm about
5 the a dentist I'll so you get
you know a little over six feet by maybe
6 fear living space this is the living room
there are benefits obviously it sits on a flatbed trailer
and we can tell them I'm different sizes according to your needs
you don't have to own here on property you don't have to pay the
the taxes on that that land its also
it's built on wheels so you really have to kind to
kinda bill it to DOT standards on
so it's it a different way other than living
its much mark cost-effective but it also
small luxury we boxed in this
stain glass window here actually but this down in Boston
and this is actually Sir Francis Drake which is
he's a rumored to be per family and
so I had to sorry worked in and said in bullet-proof glass
so we had to take into account I don't think about this
but when you going down the road iraq's layup so
we want to protect it and protect it Anhui em
purple approve class over this Victorian stained glass window
actually people from what they for their work into it I could never live in one
piece
until they actually stepped into it it is hutu
extreme for some people on and I understand that you really have to
consider the space they use in making it cramped in especially
I don't know technically if I could with their with
my wife my dog without to going crazy
but to we're willing to try it
this was annex a science experiment this was our first one
we discovered that what the pitfalls were and what
term some the benefits were we had to make the bathroom dork
could really swing open because it's just limited wasted space we made a
packet door that would just slide
on things like that you really have to take into account
opens up to reveal a to
in in incinerating toilet now this I found
online and sexually pretty cool because you can't open this up
there's a paper liner that goes in there do your business
and use hit a button and actually incinerated its electric it's clean
and there's no plumbing that's the beauty of it so
you know I've been following this trend since about 2009
religiously and the event ever watch been my team growing growing till
its family hitting the mainstream now is actually 3
shows on right now tiny house builders tiny house nation
and tiny house hunters so it actually hit
here some mainstream status
and a lot of people are you know the same question
you know is this something for us is this something you know
it really symbolizes freedom and it's catching on