I Have A Dream : To Live in A Tiny Home

If you haven't known already, of course you don't - I have the craziest dream to one day live in a tiny home or a container home - basically, anything small, minimal but functional, efficient, energy savings and ultimately self-sufficient - with built in solar energy to power the home and treated water from the underground. I think the whole idea seemed so possible to achieve when the family bought a container cabin and we literally lived in there once in a while. The tiny home living experience got even better when I stayed in Holiday Parks around New Zealand and we stayed in a self-contained cabin : totally equipped with running water, portable heater, kitchen, dining/living area, bathroom and the beds!

I simply love the idea that we don't have to have much 'stuffs' to be happy with our life and to appreciate the little things that we have around us. Thus,  living in a tiny home seemed like an ideal way to live, at least for me that is. Perhaps, I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed, when I grow up that I wanted to have a huge house to live in. Despite saying that, while growing up I've had the privileged to live in different houses and some are really big ones. While it's great to have space for yourself living with few other people in a home, however, the daunting fact on the amount of cleaning you have to deal with is not a good thing for a cleaning freak like me. I think I have a small case of OCD going on where I literally have to constantly wash my hands, wiping, washing, scrubbing, collecting stuffs which drives me insane but I just can't help from not doing them.

Hence, I believe it make more sense for someone like me to have little stuffs to deal, so there will be less mess to clean up and living in a tiny home seemed like the perfect thing to do. I really hope, soon enough in my lifetime I will finally achieve this dream of mine. If you think it's not possible to live in a tiny home, well think again because a lot of people are actually living in them especially those in big, metropolitan cities in the world.

I'm going to stop here by sharing the kind of favourite YouTube videos that I enjoy watching from time to time and one of them is this Tumbleweed Tiny Homes:

Why am I so crazily fascinated over container homes?

Container homes is the "IN" thing if you are looking for something reusable, recycled, durable, sustainable, quite possible a green home as well and talking about low in cost to have a home. The construction period to build a container homes usually take way less time than a conventional home.

As for the design layouts for container homes, there are a lot of designs out there for you to customized your container homes. You can easily scour around the internet for layouts and designs. Best part of all about having a container home is that you can have the liberty to design everything on your own. Designing and constructing  your very own container home is definitely something do able too and many have been seen to bring up a whole container home all by their own.

Check this video out below to view a complete container home constructed from recycle materials that is all inclusive of  the used container of course.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZHbZokicA&NR=1

The other reasons why I am crazily fascinated over these container homes are because of its mobility and flexibility to expand. If you gotta move it, you can break it down again and stack the containers onto the truck and away you go. As for flexibility, this comes when you are thinking to expand your home. Simply add on more containers  and what do you know, you home is expanded! Although it is obviously vital to note that this is easily said than done, deep planning is highly critical here.

There are a lot of container homes that are commonly featured in Inhabitat.com and it is going to blow your mind away because you really can't quite tell and believe that the homes are actually made from a used container. Simply amazing! One example of a beautifully designed prefab container home is this one (click here) by Leger Wanaselja.

So now, you tell me why shouldn't I be overly fascinated over container homes because aren't you loving it already? :)