Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Affordable and Small Houses

[Emilie Parker (emilie.v.parker]

I really love that small house.  Several times I've had it explained to me
that the small house 900sf-ish single family one story is not a good resale
prospect in a PUD because the cost to build is just not that much less in
required sales price than a two story -- 1800sf-ish plus basement.

For our smaller places we may go for stacked flats.  That's something we
have to figure out.

I know the ground floor single story smaller places appeal to a lot of
people.  Even if they were quads/shared walls.

The beautiful little place in your 550sf example uses some modular parts
the article says.

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On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
sharonvillines.com
> wrote:

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> > On May 25, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
> > sharonvillines.com>
> wrote:
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> > Another source for small house design. Fine Homebuilding is and
> excellent magazine and website for both the design and building of homes.
> They have just redone their website and it is truly horrible. A blither of
> small squares, some ads and some not. A whole new degraded image, but the
> content is much better. You’ll have a much harder time finding it, however.
> Persist. It’s worth it.
> >
> > This is the winner of their 2015 Small House award. 550 SF plus two
> porches. A nice feature is the foyer. Such things are usually the first to
> be eliminated in small homes.
> >
> > https://hec.su/Qov
> >
> > There’s a better way video blog is excellent for the handipersons
> amongst you.
> >
> > https://hec.su/Qox
>
> I left out some information — "There’s a Better Way” is videos of various
> tips and tricks for doing small tasks in the workshop — storing perishable
> materials, holding a board in place while doing something tricky, etc.
>
> They also have awards for other kinds of houses, including energy
> efficient and files of past award winners.
>
> And the 550 SF house is a prefab.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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