Tiny Houses and Their Furniture

The Movement

The Tiny House Movement is a reaction to the American tendency to live large. We have traditionally preferred large houses with large yards and big cars or SUVs. Gradually, people have come to understand the financial, environmental and social aspects of this lifestyle that can become problematic or even disastrous. In response, "Tiny Housers" prefer to make a smaller environmental impact on the world around them while keeping more money in their savings and spending more of their lives outside the home - both in nature and in social interaction. They do all of these at once by living in a home anywhere from 100 - 400 square feet. There is also a DIY component, as many "Tiny Housers" prefer to build their own homes instead of hiring someone else to do it.

Psychologically, the movement is based around wholeness, self sufficiency, a sense of adventure and a preference to organization, cleanliness and minimalism. There are many overlaps here between the Modernist Movement, the Minimalist Movement, the Sustainable Movement and the Tiny House movement, placing it square in the middle of everything we, as a company, are interested in and pursue on a daily basis.

The Houses

Tiny houses are exactly what they sound like - smaller buildings organized as efficiently as possible to fit the maximum amount of usability and comfort within their diminutive envelopes. They often reflect something about the personality of their owners through their style. They can come in any shape and style, but only one size range. Some are built on site by their owners while others are built in large warehouse style spaces with a mix of prefabricated components and custom pieces, and then transported to their site. People are constantly innovating in this field - some have taken to repurposing shipping containers into Tiny Homes through extreme customization. However they are designed and built, they all have a common goal of enclosing a small, manageable space and organizing everything within that space to maximum efficiency.

The Furniture

Ideal furniture for a Tiny House serves more than one purpose, and often has some kind of storage component built in. As you may have assumed, storage space becomes an absolute premium in Tiny Houses, even considering the fact that their owners are often minimizing as many possessions out of their lives as possible. Any time furniture can incorporate storage space into itself, it becomes a possible candidate for inhabiting a Tiny House. Other furniture great for Tiny Houses can rotate, pivot or collapse into themselves so as to save space or alter the space they inhabit back towards a wall or under the stairs. All incorporate some kind of extra feature that increases the spatial efficiency and multi-usability of the furniture, or at least have a dimensional aspect that makes them a better fit for a home of 400 total square feet.

The Tiny House Movement has several characteristics which pique our interest, especially those connected with modernism, minimalism and sustainability. Below are some furniture selections which could work in a Tiny House plan.

Mimico Storage Ottoman

$950.00 - on sale for $760.00 until 8-14-16

Dalton Convertible Desk + File

$899.00

Paxton Sleeper

$898.00

Exodus Convertible Console + Dining Table

$538.00

Passage Convertible Console + Dining Table

$525.00