![]() Even though a video they made showed Joss's head touching his bedroom ceiling when he stood up, they're delighted with their tiny house, claiming it's "exactly like living in a conventional house". Clients include David and Becky Westwood, and son Joss, who bought a standard £50,000 model. March's company produces around 15 tiny houses a year. Shafer founded the Tumbleweed Tiny House company, before leaving to focus on social justice and housing rights. Jay Shafer, the "godfather of tiny houses", spearheaded the modern movement when he built a tiny house on wheels and wrote The Small House Book in 1999. The roots of the tiny house movement can be traced to 19th-Century US naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau, whose book Walden (1854) is an inspiring meditation on simple living in natural surroundings. The idea – that having less space and stuff can create room in our lives for more important things – is an appealing one. In the same way that minimalism and decluttering captured the zeitgeist as a counterpoint to conspicuous consumerism, so too has the tiny house movement found its moment. "Feels more homey to live in a small house," he tweeted. Musk upped the tiny-house ante when he rented one in Boca Chica, Texas, while working on his SpaceX venture. One of the most high-profile of the movement's many champions must be Elon Musk, the multibillionaire Tesla chief. Witness the nearly 2.5 million Instagram posts with a "tinyhouse" hashtag a massive internet following and burgeoning number of documentaries and TV series, such as the Netflix show Tiny House Nation, and a series on the subject by UK architect and TV presenter George Clarke. ![]() The buzz around the tiny house trend – an architectural and social movement that advocates for downsizing living spaces – is increasing. In the world of home design, a revolution is taking place – and its future is tiny. ![]()
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