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?
I’m a sukkah for tiny houses.
Another great place to see adorable small houses is an area called “Norma Triangle” in Los Angeles around the Pacific Design Center. Lots of 1920’s one bedroom stucco cottages. And I love a narrow shotgun house as found in the South. I knew people in college who rented those. Tongue-and-groove wood walls, and often there’d be high ceilings and large doorways and big windows but inside such a small house. So the proportions were really cool.
It’s got white windowframes and a Home Deopt door! What’s the deal?
You should check out the bungalow beach houses in the Rockaways if you haven’t already. Many are smaller than this.
Another one? These things are sprouting up now all over the place. It’s like there’s a sukkah born every minute!
This house didn’t spring up it’s been in the neighborhood as long as I have been, maybe even before. it recently got an updated facade/siding and paint.
Dave – My sukkah at 192sf is dwarfed by this little house.
Maybe its the sukkah for the house next doot!!
A couple of years ago, Hubby and I considered buyng a 600sq. ft. 1 bedroom 2-story freestanding house in our nabe. It was the cutest little thing and had a view of the verrazano bridge. We wanted to add 2 more floors, but zoning wouldn’t allow it, so we passed.
People don’t need alot of space, but for us it would have been romantic for the 1st year and after that one of us would be sleeping on the roof.
May I say that this site is perfect for development?