• Sheila
  October 15, 2020, 4:47 pm

  Is that a double fire place? Use to live in a house that had a double fire place. This is real nice. I see the door is antiqued? I have always like that. Beautiful cottage.

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• Lantz
  October 18, 2020, 3:40 am

  In the US during the 50s the avg sq ft home was 700 and a big house 1500. Looking at this 675 sq ft shows how little we need to be happy and how much less a home could be built for and paid off sooner.

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  • Natalie C. McKee
    October 18, 2020, 1:54 pm

    Completely agree, Lantz!

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    • Stephan of Arkansas
      March 21, 2021, 3:53 pm

      Yes, Lantz… yes, Natalie. You two hit the proverbial nail smack dab on its head. Perfectly said. I continue to see cookie cutter semi-mansions being built in and around my beautiful college town of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and they make me sick at my stomach. No one needs that much room. Even if one is wealthy, a semi-mansion or worse is far too much. These comments are respectfully submitted. Stephan of Arkansas

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• Christine Yahner-Divadkar
  October 25, 2020, 9:32 pm

  What a cute – and ROOMY – cottage! Love it! And it looks like it meets most city ordinances. Thanks for the tour.

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• Eric
  November 28, 2020, 12:06 am

  Oh come on. Those doors are weather beaten nightmares, supposedly distressed, which is another word for… yep, you guessed it, weather beaten nightmares.

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  • Anthony
    April 14, 2023, 5:18 pm

    Oh! But Eric! You so very much miss the point!!! They reframe (sorry for the pun) how that door is presented, so they could sell it for $1500 or far more, than if they simply labeled it for what it is – a worn, tired, and in need of severe repairing door!

    What I find disgusting about all this tiny house business is not the houses themselves, but how the fad has made what should be a solution to solve serious social economic issues into one more money making big business opportunity. Low income people, the elderly, and those who consciously choose not to live the irresponsible and selfish lifestyle of consumerist materialism just can’t touch these places now. Not unless they go very very simple, and live in what amounts to a box with the bare essentials. You would think this is the way of things when purchasing a normal-sized house, but now that is how it is with these. When you see 200 sq foot houses or less selling for $50,000 – $100,000 or more, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

    This is just one more joke perpetuated in a country whose essential value system is, was, and will always be about the dollar. From long before the colonies were even colonies, the whole purpose of the New World was to invade, control, and extract its natural resources, something we’ve been doing for five centuries now.

    As for these quaint little castles in the sky, they’re nothing more than weak attempts to deny, pretend we’ve finally become more enlightened, or assuage the guilt of those who temporally leave that life for a year or two. Sadly, the marketing of these things, their popularity HGTV has made them economically untouchable for the masses. In other words, this is the gentrification of sane living standards in an otherwise insane and out of control society.

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    • James D.
      April 16, 2023, 3:18 pm

      While I understand the sentiment, but much of what you stated is not true or inaccurate. First, tiny homes were never a magic solution that would make everything the same price and work for everyone. People and the situations they can be in are just too diverse for that to ever be a true solution for everyone. So cost always depended on the details, situation, and how it was done!

      You can look at Tumbleweed Tiny Homes, one of the 1st commercial builders that Jay Shafer famously helped found in 2000, and find they were producing homes, even 200 Sq Ft, that were over $50,000 to disprove the idea that this is somehow new or a fad…

      Many people just DIY’ed, kept it very small and very minimal, and used methods like reclaiming materials to keep the costs really low before they really had commercial builders as an option. Problem is it’s just the reality that not everyone can DIY, or will be in a situation where that option is what would work best for them. While also not everyone will have the same needs or will be able to achieve the most efficiency at always the same costs.

      So a lot of the cost differences is because that’s the reality of the diversity of people and the situations they can be in… You can’t just expect a family to suffice on the same home designed for one or two people or expect someone with special needs to not have anything to help them live a normal life. Among a long list of other ways people and their situations can be different for why their costs will be different…

      Nor are things like sustainability, environmentalism, wanting freedom and independence, etc. going to be all free and not have a cost… Much as it’s easy to blame on just consumerism for all our problems, but the truth is life is just complicated and we need solutions that can deal with that complexity if we expect any real change.

      We’re dealing with limited and overstretched resources, a growing population where housing growth hasn’t kept up for over a century, an economy where income hasn’t kept up with the cost of living, wasteful mismanagement of resources and misguided policies that end up making things worse, crippling and even oppressive bureaucracy that keeps getting larger and more complicated, discrimination and other factors that drive NIMBY’ism, anti-social behavior increasingly becoming the norm, etc. and those are just some of the highlights…

      However, the main problem is we’re divided. If we ever unite and work together for a common goal all these issues can be solved. There’s plenty of blame to go around but we need to focus on unlocking our creativity, ingenuity, problem solving, and empathy to common goals.

      Fact is there’s people who are making it happen, there’s still people building their own tiny homes for as little as a few thousand. Even in the present insane economy, it remains true the old saying that where there’s a will, there’s a way. We just have to stop wasting energy on the blame/making excuses game and join them to become part of the solution…

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• Amber Wildman
  March 21, 2021, 10:25 am

  Gorgeous, I love everything about it! And Raleigh is such a booming city too. They’re living my dream lol

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