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The “Tiny Homes” trend is very much alive and well. Homeowners across the US are vacating their traditional, large timber-framed homes in favor of teeny-tiny homes, saving on utility bills and being more environmentally friendly in the process. The main reason people buy these homes is because they want to save money, but not all tiny homes are cheap.
What follows is a list of real tiny homes that you can buy, providing you have a budget that is far from tiny.
4. Prices are Bigger in Texas
Value: $436,000
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This home is as quaint as they come, complete with rocking chairs on the porch. But before you rush to get your checkbooks out, you’ll need close to $450,000 to buy this one.
And that’s only if you can pry it away from its current owners, who paid that price tag in 2015. This cabin is just 336-square feet, but it sits on the side of a lake in one of the most scenic areas of the country. It may be small, but it has a big heart.
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3. $125k per Foot in Seattle
Value: $499,000
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This house is just four-foot wide, but it’s a veritable Tardis inside. It may not look like it, but there are 860-square feet here, which makes it 2.5 times bigger than the quaint cottage mentioned above. That’s because despite being just 4 feet wide, it is a total of 56 feet long. It’s also half a million dollars though, which means you’re paying $125k per foot in width and close to $1,750 per square foot.
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2. Real-Life Gingerbread House
Value: $2,500 a Week
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This is as the title says: a real life gingerbread house, albeit one made out of timber and not humanoid cookies. It’s bright, it’s bold and it’s small. But it’s also located in Martha’s Vineyard, so we’re guessing there is no shortage of takers. However, we get the feeling that this is one of those times when it’s better to have the house opposite, because inside it’s pretty plain.
For the same price, you can buy a small share of a leading NFL team and watch them play every week; you can get yourself two brand new MacBooks a week and you can also pretty much setup home in an Orlando hotel and pay for lifetime access to DisneyWorld.
So, before you get blown away by the cuteness of this humble abode, you might want to give it a second thought.
1. A Box in Brooklyn
Value: $499,000
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While the rest of us are worrying about losing our jobs, paying to get kids through college, getting through an audit or paying for home appliances that insist on blowing up at the exact moment your bank goes into the red, these guys are blowing a cool half million on a house that like it could have been bought flat-packed and on special from Ikea.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lovely house, but that’s a lovely sum of money and I know which one I would rather have.
A box of the same size was also listed on Home Spa Select recently. It was just as luxurious and you could argue that it was also expensive. But it was a hot-tub. It’s allowed to be expensive. An Ikea house is not.
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