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A tiny house doesn't mean only a small space:

    tiny house = tiny house + large yard - maintenance - mortgage - noise

I'm actually planning to build one, 36m2/400sf in a 2 acres property. Regardless, I will have plenty of space: outdoors.

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Seems that the overlap of tiny homes and lite homesteading is large, whether that be for pragmatic or romantic reasons.

Do you have a family? And you must have a shed the size of your house to hold the lawnmower you'll need for all that.

This house will have only a small bedroom, a wc and a living/kitchen/dining room. However I'll assure the possibility of easily extending 1 or 2 small bedrooms and a garage if/when I get kids. For now I just plan to use it on weekends and holydays.

And no lawns. Maybe a vegetable garden.

Is the expansion a matter of tearing the connecting walls down to the studs and building back up? The idea of a truly modular home, where you can expand or shrink it with relatively little effort (I'm thinking requiring no contractors - hookups are all plug and play) really intrigues me.

Of course, that's a nightmare when considering any sort of centralized heat source or utility, but that's a really fun idea.

Is the expansion a matter of tearing the connecting walls down to the studs and building back up?

Making it as a 'lego' would require a lot of research. That would only pay if I would open a business based on that. So, for now, I'm only making the main entrance near a corner. This door will connect with the second module (if I ever build it). The heat source will be near this corner also.

I'm slowly making the project and planning to build it myself as much as possible. It helps that I'm originally an architect (buildings not IT) and used to help my father on trades.

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