Sunset magazine, a home and lifestyle magazine about the American West, has embraced the tiny and small house movement with several features on tiny houses and trailers. Tiny house dwellers who enter their Small Space, Big Dreams Home Awards could win a $250 Container Store shopping spree and could also be featured in a future issue of the magazine.
Until January 31, 2014, Sunset is accepting photos and descriptions of small and tiny homes and how you use the space. They are looking for space-savvy ideas as well as alternative ways of living including floating homes and homes on wheels. The award categories are:
- Whole House: If your entire home is space-savvy, show it off. There’s no square-footage limit—it’s how you use the space that matters.
- One-Room Wonder: A single space filled with ideas for maxing out the available room. Kitchen, bath, kid’s room, or multiuse? You decide.
- Outdoors: Show us photos of how you make your compact yard, tree- house, patio, deck, or shed seem roomier than it is.
- On Wheels or On Water: If your home floats or rolls, we want to see how you’ve kitted out the unconventional space.
- Satellite Space: Guest cottages, writing sheds, the party barn—we’re looking for outbuildings that live large.
To enter, upload 2-6 photos and descriptions (100 words or less) on the use of your space. Entries will be judged on quality of photographs; creativity in the use of space; use of language to describe the small space functionality; and appropriateness to award category. The magazine will not accept photos depicting people. Winners in each category will be notified by April 15, 2014.
Photos by Sunset magazine
That’s one of the dumbest rewards I’ve ever seen. The whole idea behind a small house is that you are getting rid of things you don’t need. It’s not about storing stuff for the future. If you are going to put something into storage, then you likely don’t need it.
Paul- The Container Store sells all kinds of products for maximizing your space. They also sell wonderful glass kitchen storage containers. Even tiny house dwellers have spices and staples to store, plus leftovers… just like everyone else. You should check out their website. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
I would love to know who wrote and published the rule book for tiny home owners or dwellers? There are NO rules on a person having to get rid of their possessions because they choose to live in a tiny house. They can fill a warehouse with their stuff if they need it or not and keep it for years all while living in a tiny house. NO RULES about it. Everyone who lives in a tiny home is not a minimalist. I have lots of things in my tiny house on a daily basis that serve no other purpose than to bring a smile to my face. I would love to have even more storage containers to organize my “STUFF” that I rotate in and out of my tiny home. What an awesome prize. Even if a person did not need anything from the Container store, you could gift it to someone who would really appreciate it. Containers and other items from the Container Store could be sold for pure profit. Thanks Sunset Magazine for offering such a great prize.
No kidding, Paul. Sunset is way off on the prize! What are they thinking?
i believe what they are thinking is: Tiny minds live in tiny houses…”…boy, we could sucker these folks into giving us million dollar ideas for a chance to win a $250, because…”- (see previous remark…) I live in a tiny western micro house and i can see the whole wild wild west in my picture window without taking my eyes off my work. I may live in a tiny western micro house but i have deep pockets. I’m glad i missed the deadline to enter because $250 is just trivial pocket change to me. Heck, the last time i went to HD, I spent $900 before i was inside the door. Paul Davis
I think it’s kind of funny to have to have a reward for anything. That said, small house living is a relative term. Small for some is big to another group. What makes sense here is to live “within ones means”. That said, lets bag any contests and that sort of malarky. Let’s just let smart civilized people do the right thing.
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I am in the design process if building a “tiny home” for a montesori teacher. We will post as we proceed
Always love to see the “in process” pics. It’s more helpful, IMHO, to see the how you did it. Thanks!
I can take or leave the contest, but smart use of containers makes a huge difference in small space living. That would be the smaller totes and boxes you use inside and around your living space, not the things you load on ships or drive to in order to store old furniture. It’s especially handy when using harder to access spaces and if you’re mobile it helps keep things from tossing around too much.
I entered just to show off my 8×20 caboose home. I think tiny homes are a bit infectious. I caught the bug and have purchased surplus land from our state where roadbeds had been realigned to place my little house on. The 1/2 acre lot was $1000. Try buying a residentual lot for that give away price. Here is the build diary with 100’s of pictures……
http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=47804
I’m confused on how/where to “download pics, and was the 100 word description for EACH of the pictures, or only 100 words or less for the WHOLE descriotioh. That seems woefully inadequate. I, also, have some unique designs in my Gypsy Tiny House, that are not immediately visible. You can see my house at :
TinyHouseAlternatives.com Love to hear back from you.
I’ve discovered that varied sizes of square air tight containers can stack easily and compact in a tiny upper cabinet for storing dry goods. This is much more effective than round canisters on a counter top, thus availing work space.
Would like to know if you can tell me where they got the metal planters in front if the small house