It’s becoming a small space kind of world. From micro apartments with just a few hundred square feet to the proliferation of double-duty furniture and the growing tiny house movement, thinking small is, well, big.
HGTV is jumping on the bandwagon with the launch of the series Tiny House, Big Living, which premièred Sept. 6 and follows couples looking to downsize in a serious way.
And hot off the presses is Microshelters: 59 creative cabins, tiny houses, tree houses, and other small structures — to capitalize on the craze.
Want to see how you can live comfortably in as little as 100 square feet or less? An array of projects from across Canada, the United States and beyond — including one near Ottawa — highlight the possibilities for living in a small footprint.
Ingenious space savers include a bathtub recessed in the floor and accessed by a hatch and a garage door track and motor that borrows on the Murphy wall bed idea and lowers a queen-sized bed. Upright, it forms a comfortable seating area.
A garage door bed becomes a cosy seat when not lowered in this 68-square-foot micro guesthouse featured in Microshelters.
Want to build your own tiny space? There are a half dozen plans included.
Whether permanent or mobile, rustic or modern, these examples offer a plethora of ideas for creating cosy, efficient and cost-effective hideaways.
Microshelters: 59 creative cabins, tiny houses, tree houses, and other small structures, by Derek “Deek” Diedricksen
Thomas Allen & Son, paperback, 256 pages, $25 (but find it for less at chapters.ca and amazon.ca)
Microshelters: 59 creative cabins, tiny houses, tree houses and other small structures, by Derek ‘Deek’ Diedricksen.
