The idea here is that you are living in a small home that is on wheels and you can park it and you don't need a building permit as it is not a permanent structure. What you do need to do how ever is get it approved so that it can be towed around which I don't think is to hard.
So I started to look around on the Internet for small homes and was quite surprised in what I found.
Here is a good book at Amazon called
A Little House of My Own: 47 Grand Designs for 47 Tiny Houses that looks very interesting. Page down on that link and you will find a list of other books on small homes also.
The change to their shed-like home has been so dramatic that Bill Kastrinos is now building the tiny homes to sell
Here is
9 pictures of the home of Jay Shafer, founder of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, in Sebastopol, California. Jay's home is a 100 square-foot cottage that includes a desk, a sitting area, a kitchen, a bathroom, a sleeping loft, and a front porch.
Today Jay's site is getting hammered as it can't handle being CNNed so put up the Telstar Logistics Flickr account pictures. In a couple of days things will quite down and you can visit
Jay's Tumbleweed Tiny House website.
The first couple of pages on a Google Image search for
tiny homes also gives some good results.
Here is are two good article by The New York Times.
Think Small from Feb 16, 2007 and
The Next Little Thing? from Sept 10, 2008.
Here is a nice Sceen Cast on
Tiny Houses: Less Is More by Bethany Lyttle from the New York Times. It is 2:41 minutes long and has 16 quality pictures of tiny homes by John Freidman.
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