Suzanne downsized from 1,700 sq ft to 399 sq ft and made some big changes in her life. Not only did she downsize but she found a life of simplicity and alignment.
Moving into a smaller home is always a challenge but Suzanne has made the transition easier by finding a community that she loves. Village Farm is a small community located in Austin. It is built around an organic farm. The residents swap homemade meals and also volunteer in shared garden spaces.
Suzanne’s tiny house features high ceilings, a loft and lots of smart storage. Outside it has two porches which make her home seem larger and is a great place to visit with others in the community.
Her kitchen is a special place for her and she has a dishwasher and many builtins to make it her own. Her kitchen even includes a functional pantry. Suzanne’s counter doubles as a dining table and home office.
Her home features a queen size bed and her downstairs bedroom area is quite comfortable with a dresser and plenty of storage.
Suzanne is a writer who focuses on simplicity, she recently published a book titled Beyond Decluttering: 40 Days to Experiencing Simplicity Through Connection. (affiliate link)
Suzanne needed a fresh start and her tiny home feels expansive and not confining. At 60 this is just what she needed.
Photos and video by Tiny House Giant Journey
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399 square feet reads completely differently depending on why you are in it. We run a job board for traveling skilled trades workers, and plenty of our people live in about that much space for months at a time, parked near a plant or a jobsite instead of a farm community with shared meals. The part of Suzanne’s story that carries straight over is the counter that doubles as a desk and a dining table, because when the box is that small every surface ends up with two jobs. The part that does not is that she picked it and they are chasing the work, and the ones who come out ahead on it do it as a crew, splitting the site fee and the drive instead of eating both alone. That is the whole reason we built splitting the rig and the drive when two or three hands take the same job into our tools.