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"So amusing. One of the first flash fiction challenges I did was about tiny house people in outer space. That said, I live in an 800 square foot trailer. If we'd part with the book storage (office) and shared computer desk area (dining room), we'd basically be living in small house quarters. We were looking at tiny houses before we got this thing (which is from  1964 and terribly energy inefficient). They weren't really worth the price tag, compared to this drafty, potentially asbestos-filled, questionable plumbing eyesore).\r\n\r\nHowever, the tiny house thing is not a particularly new phenomenon. Most old eastern homesteads have spring houses / wash houses / outbuildings. Homesteaders built these small structures first, so they would have a place to live for the winter. Sometimes, they would be added onto and expanded into a larger house or, a few years down the road, the family would just build a new home after they had a chance to gather resources. These buildings were generally two floors, a room on each floor, which had to house an entire family. Of course, they didn't have to worry about tiny bathrooms because... outhouses."
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