Tiny Home to Call Your Own

As co-author of A Tiny Home, I appreciate the comments from two of the reviewers that were looking for tiny house design plans and building instructions. But building and designing a smaller home is not the intent of A Tiny Home to Call Your Own. The intent behind Tiny Home is to raise awareness of how our housing choices affect our lives and our planet. The intent is that this book help to be a paradigm shifter toward housing that is better suited to life-styles, friendlier to ecology and encourages preservation of food producing land from becoming the ultimate crop: houses. We get calls daily from excited folks telling us that a tiny home is just what they are looking for; the answer to their home quest. It is clear to me there is a grass roots desire for smaller homes. The interest is mushrooming. We have been in major national magazines and newspapers with articles about tiny homes and living smaller. We even got a call from Oprah. I've been a guest on radio talk shows across the country talking about tiny homes. The discussions are always lively and provocative with "off the charts" calls and feedback from listeners. The trend is clear: so many folks want an independent place of their own that is dignified, well-built, reflects their personalities, and is SMALL. We created the terms for this situation; "ill-fitting homes" and the antonym "just right homes". I felt some of the reviews were a little quick to shoot from the hip about what this book is NOT about. In response, below are a few comments about A Tiny Home to Call Your Own that I'd like to submit for the record. With love and hope, Patricia Foreman, author "I almost cried when I read the Tiny Home book. Boy oh boy, are you on to something! I'm a single mother, with one daughter. Who can afford the half million dollar houses going up everywhere? Our bigger and better society is frightening, and I'm so very happy you see through that illusion. I truly wondered if anyone else out there was thinking along the path I am. Small, and simple. I have put your site in my favorites. Good for you! Thanks again, you've made my day." -- Kim Labbe, New Hampshire "I encourage you to take a look at The Tiny Home Book. I think it speaks to what our hearts long for...a place we can afford to live with love and laughter. All my life I have lived in small houses. My wife and I raised five beautiful children in a 1,200 sq. ft. house. And we owned that house. We were not strapped with a 30 year mortgage. We didn't have to work night and day to keep a roof over our heads. We had time for children and for ourselves. "A Tiny Home" is for anyone who wants more time and less house. "A Tiny Home to Call Your Own" is a must read." -- Larry Haun, author, The Very Efficient Carpenter "More and more of us, myself included, are struggling to define the connections between who we are, and what our "things" say we are. Bigger is not necessarily better. More is not necessarily richer. We live in a

This book contains practical info about choosing a smaller house. You won't be able to build a house from this book, but it will help you figure out what you want and how to get it. The houses described are small, but not so extreme as to be unlivable. These houses occupy the "just right" niche that makes them affordable and environmentally sound, but still be livable. BTW- I live alone in a 700sf house. I could be comfortable in half that space if my house were better designed.