Brooklyn's Own Tiny House Movement
Poking around Windsor Terrace the other day, we spied this cabin-like building that sprouted between an aluminum siding-clad single-family house, and an aluminum siding-clad apartment house. Much has been written about the growing tiny house movement in America, but while New Yorkers are famous for making due in small spaces, we don’t often see them…
Poking around Windsor Terrace the other day, we spied this cabin-like building that sprouted between an aluminum siding-clad single-family house, and an aluminum siding-clad apartment house. Much has been written about the growing tiny house movement in America, but while New Yorkers are famous for making due in small spaces, we don’t often see them as freestanding homes. This one is 666-square-feet, on a 2,430-square-foot lot, and may we say it is adorable?
Making do is the practice of getting by with what you have at hand. Making due would be, perhaps, presenting a bill for payment?
New York’s energy efficiency is a function of its density. Tiny houses on big plots are a step backward.
@traditionalmod: I used to live in one of those, on Norwich Drive. Very cute area. The houses were often pretty much made of paper, though. I accidentally put my foot right through the wall one time while hurrying to answer the phone…
Yeah, but the Honda in the driveway is the guest bedroom.
“East New York…. that’s sarcasm right? (I hope.)”
Yeah, it is. I think the place is pretty cool, actually.
Happy to oblige.
“Much has been written about the growing tiny house movement in America…”
As I understand it, the point of this “movement” is to utilize resources (land, materials, energy) more efficiently and in a more sustainable manner. The way to do this in an urban environment is through density.
That’s a funny/cute house but a 666sf freestanding (energy inefficient) house on a lot that could accommodate an apartment building for 4+ families has nothing to do with the “tiny house movement” in my mind.
the siding is really more of a burnt orange, with red trim–blame my camera
East New York…. that’s sarcasm right? (I hope.)