Tiny House Blog

by Anders Karlstam

I have attached a picture over a part of our city built up with tiny houses of different designs. This type of building in this type of area are called “kolonistuga” and the tiny houses are called “koloniområde.” This area was built way back to give hard working People in factories a chance to get recreation on vacation.

There are several areas with tiny houses in our city. Most of them are located in surrounding locations of the city, but this one and two to three more areas are located inside the city. It is a very nice contrast to all large buildings.

Photo Credits Anders Karlstam

Usually, people are not allowed to live in these permanently and they are empty during the wintertime.

Every house is owned personally, but owners have to be a members of a community that rents the land from the city. So every house owner rents the ground from the community, which is called a leasehold.

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The popularity of Stieg Larsson’s books, and subsequent movies, about a certain tattooed girl has given rise to a new-found love of Swedish design. Sweden’s Technical Week website recently had a story on a 94 square foot tiny home that celebrates that clean design, but is also making a statement at the same time.

This experimental, free-standing tiny home for students has a kitchen, a bath with a shower, a corner office and an eating area with two chairs. A sleeping loft is accessed by a ladder. This home will rent for 30,000 Swedish crowns ($4,400) a year, when most student housing in Sweden rents for about 50,000 ($7,700) crowns a year. The country has a lack of affordable student housing and most seekers have to stand in line for an available place to live. This home will be rented out for three years to one person who can give the best reason why they should have the house. Continue Reading »

This week’s Tiny House in a Landscape is from Ottsjö county of Jämtland, Sweden. The house is all natural except for the glass in the window. I really like the stone fireplace and natural green roof.

The squared off logs are neat also and make the little cabin fit into the landscape beautifully. The photo was taken by Erik Sundström not to far from his home.

A while back I featured Alex and his Ecohouse located in Sweden. Recently he contacted me about a film they are producing and your chance to get involved in the funding of the project. Not everyone appreciates using the internet to raise money but I wanted to give those who want to an opportunity to help Alex out if you so choose. Here is more information about the project.

Could a small house be the big solution to today’s society of over-consumption?

Alex, Anna and Oden leave New York for Europe, rural Sweden, to build an ecological house for $15,000 or less.

They are on a journey of self-rediscovery that ends up being a lot more challenging and fun than they ever planned.

This is the story of their fight for freedom, independence, and life in balance.

We want to tell our story but also visit other pioneers of the small house movement, as part of that, we are raising funds for non-profit filmmaking.

Learn more about the project at the Kickstarted webstite.

Alex from Sweden at EcoHouseFilm sent me a mobile hunting cabin that is for sale if you are in his neck of the woods. If you’re far away like I am, it is nice for tiny house idea generation.

I like the simplicity of the design, the basic porch that gives you some protection as you enter the house. The cottage has a simple  and usable living area, a bedroom and kitchenette. It has a small heater that keeps it comfortably warm.

To view the listing go here, I used the google translator to interpret the posting.

by Kent Griswold (Tiny House Blog)

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