Amazon Tiny Houses

[Hawkmoon]

I would love a replica off a stone CCC cabin for a vacation house.

I have found a website that actually has plans for CCC buildings:

"CCC" ... translation, please?

[Ron]

Civilian conservation corps

[K Frame]

Civilian Conservation Corps.

Part of the Depression-era New Deal.

[brimic]

Ooh. My wife was talking about something along these lines for a office/studio, since we have zero workspace for her in our house.

[MillCreek]

I have seen some gorgeous stone cabins and other structures in Washington state parks and other state facilities. They were generally built with rounded river rock from that location all painstakingly fitted and mortared together.

[Ben]

Wood stove for heating and cooking....hence the desire for a loft.

One of the places where I put in an offer in Idaho had the killer wood cookstove/oven in the kitchen. Of course they specifically had a notation they were taking it with them when they moved, even though it must have weighed a million pounds.

I would love to have one of those as the main wood stove. The one in that house was placed just at the edge of the kitchen in an open floorplan, so it was a great location to actually use it for cooking, and also to distribute heat through most of the house.

[Larry Ashcraft]

I'm still trying to figure out where you put the furnace and AC in those tiny houses.

In our 30' travel trailer, the furnace was the size of a suitcase and fit under the couch.  It had floor ducts in each room and was quite cozy, even in sub-zero weather.

No tiny houses for us, though.  We lived in that trailer for 11 months while the house was being built.  When we moved into the new house, my wife said "I'm done camping".  Three minute showers and a stove way too small to actually cook on.  And if you did make a pot of soup in the winter, every window was dripping with condensation.

[Ben]

Ooh. My wife was talking about something along these lines for a office/studio, since we have zero workspace for her in our house.

That seems to be a popular option nowadays for people with the space. You get a detached workspace to kind of separate yourself from work and home, and it can double as a guest house to give both you and your guests some space.

[Scout26]

One of the places where I put in an offer in Idaho had the killer wood cookstove/oven in the kitchen. Of course they specifically had a notation they were taking it with them when they moved, even though it must have weighed a million pounds.

I would love to have one of those as the main wood stove. The one in that house was placed just at the edge of the kitchen in an open floorplan, so it was a great location to actually use it for cooking, and also to distribute heat through most of the house.

I was thinking of something like this:

https://www.shoptinyhouses.com/products/spruce-cylinder-stove-by-colorado-cylinder-stoves?variant=1055245041691&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=CjwKCAjw39reBRBJEiwAO1m0OdWhB2QuAoX1657jm8kHOA53eGFcG2DnWVc_AwfUdLhLMBd8bMgq6BoCP4EQAvD_BwE

The standard wood burning stove from the 1800's would be a little on the large size for a tiny house/cabin.  Again, I'm looking at it from the perspective of a hunting cabin/vacation home in the woods.  Not for "Let's live here until we die" perspective.    

[Ben]

I was thinking of something like this:

https://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/colorado-cylinder-stoves-stove-mat-tent-shield?a=1312991&pm2d=CSE-SPG-15-PLA&utm_medium=PLA&utm_source=Google&utm_campaign=CI&gclid=CjwKCAjw39reBRBJEiwAO1m0OW1Sxd_bou-Hx8CupLoQzU9yw_yfHgTMeAc4NBTp-1Z-94UEZilWYBoCHWwQAvD_BwE

The standard wood burning stove from the 1800's would be a little on the large size for a tiny house/cabin.  Again, I'm looking at it from the perspective of a hunting cabin/vacation home in the woods.  Not for "Let's live here until we die" perspective.   

Yeah, the one I saw in that house would definitely take up 25% of the space in a tiny house. 

[Jocassee]

I love the idea of the tiny house but I suspect I would hate the reality of living in one. I have entertained the idea of somehow, someway, putting one in my back yard and using it for guests and/or AirBnB.

[brimic]

That seems to be a popular option nowadays for people with the space. You get a detached workspace to kind of separate yourself from work and home, and it can double as a guest house to give both you and your guests some space.

Yes, I have a fairly small house (~1100 sq ft) with 5 people living in it... but also just shy of 1.5 acre of land. My wife wants the barn to work in which is about 20'x20' but I need that to store the tractor, the motorcycles, and to do all of my metalworking. Her business is incorporated, so it makes sense for me to build it and have her INC rent it from me, rather than have her rent a small studio in town for a lot more money.

[brimic]

I was thinking of something like this:

https://www.shoptinyhouses.com/products/spruce-cylinder-stove-by-colorado-cylinder-stoves?variant=1055245041691&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=CjwKCAjw39reBRBJEiwAO1m0OdWhB2QuAoX1657jm8kHOA53eGFcG2DnWVc_AwfUdLhLMBd8bMgq6BoCP4EQAvD_BwE

The standard wood burning stove from the 1800's would be a little on the large size for a tiny house/cabin.  Again, I'm looking at it from the perspective of a hunting cabin/vacation home in the woods.  Not for "Let's live here until we die" perspective.    

A more vertical potbelly stove would take up less room. https://www.acehardware.com/departments/heating-and-cooling/wood-and-pellet-stoves/wood-and-pellet-stoves/4666590?x429=true&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpoKe_r6s3gIVkQOGCh14sgv8EAQYASABEgJsCPD_BwE

[BlueStarLizzard]

I live in an old school prefabricated tiny house.

It's called a trailer.

The thing about those tiny houses is it's only a little less for the sticker price (which doesn't include foundation), less square feet and a layout that sucks for more than one person (unless they are a very close couple) than a traditional trailer (which comes with the hot water heater, HVAC and appliances)

[Jocassee]

A tiny house is just a trailer without the stigma

[Scout26]

A more vertical potbelly stove would take up less room. https://www.acehardware.com/departments/heating-and-cooling/wood-and-pellet-stoves/wood-and-pellet-stoves/4666590?x429=true&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpoKe_r6s3gIVkQOGCh14sgv8EAQYASABEgJsCPD_BwE

Yeah, but I like to eat hot meals.  With that, you can have one pan or small skillet going.  On the one I linked to you can have a couple things going at different temps.

[BlueStarLizzard]

A tiny house is just a trailer without the stigma

pretty much

[Angel Eyes]

A tiny house is just a trailer without the stigma

... and on a dollars-per-square-foot basis, you're usually better off with the trailer.

[MillCreek]

... and on a dollars-per-square-foot basis, you're usually better off with the trailer.

But is the build quality of a tiny house better than a trailer?  We have several friends who own trailers and RV's, and they can tell some horror stories about them.

[RoadKingLarry]

My 32' boat has a solid fuel heater similar to this-https://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|6880|2061076|2061078|2061091&id=48881

That is in addition to the AC/reverse cycle heat system. I't also got a LPG 3 burner cook top/oven.

[charby]

I was thinking of something like this:

https://www.shoptinyhouses.com/products/spruce-cylinder-stove-by-colorado-cylinder-stoves?variant=1055245041691&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=CjwKCAjw39reBRBJEiwAO1m0OdWhB2QuAoX1657jm8kHOA53eGFcG2DnWVc_AwfUdLhLMBd8bMgq6BoCP4EQAvD_BwE

The standard wood burning stove from the 1800's would be a little on the large size for a tiny house/cabin.  Again, I'm looking at it from the perspective of a hunting cabin/vacation home in the woods.  Not for "Let's live here until we die" perspective.    

We have a cast iron boxwood stove at MN deer camp, it will roast you out of a 750sq ft cabin. I found the stove for $20 on craigslist a few years ago. It replaced a oil barrel wood stove that finally burned a hole in the bottom. It likes to eat the wood since it has a small fire chamber but you can damper it down to get about 3-4 hours of heat out of it.

Cooking on a heating wood stove sucks, hard to regulate the temps. Cooking on a wood cook stove is awesome once you figure out how to run the grates, intake and damper, but you got to constantly feed it wood and it doesn't do a great job for heating since you are burning small pieces of wood.

The stove you linked to its like the stoves you use in wall tents, they consume a lot of wood for their size and don't hold heat like a heavy cast iron stoves does. Your going to be constantly feeding it wood.

Someday I do want a cabin in the woods with a wood cook stove for the winter months.

[K Frame]

A column stove would be perfect for a place like these.

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[charby]

Drool... https://www.lehmans.com/product/waterford-stanley-irish-wood-cookstove/

[charby]

A column stove would be perfect for a place like these.

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anyone still make those?

[Perd Hapley]

Can someone explain this craze, please? I mean, I get that it makes for lower utility costs, but what will you do with the money you save? You can't collect widgets (no room), make widgets (no room), and how many hobbies can you pursue, with no room to store equipment/materials/tools? Not to mention no room for kids. Is this mostly for writers, or people that do all their work on an ipad? Is it for people saving to get a real house? Is it for business owners that work 18 hours a day, and only come home to sleep, and shower? Is it for people constantly on the road?

'Cuz I live in a very small house, and it's pretty far from ideal.