We're watching a trend here in America and around the crowded world. People
ready to live in houses only a couple of feet wide, ABC's Nick Wart shows us
life inside the microhome of the future.
Sick and tired of your
cramped quarters, stretch out and look at this, a tiny sliver of 156 square
feet, just 36 inches widing places. Shark might squeeze through the front door,
but I'm thinking he gets stuck in that bathroom. There's a table for two, cozy
by candle light, but a bed just for one.
I think plenty of light
is most important, says the experimental architect Yaku Sheshezni.
Designed for this guy, Ediker Karet, an Israeli writer
reclaiming his Polish roots. And how much space do we really need, the tiny
house movement is gaining some traction.
This is my tiny
house.
Here's poster boy Jay Shafren.
It sleeps
too really comfortably.
Oh, it is small.
This
model microapartment in San Francisco toured by our very own Cecilia
Viga.
You can almost from the bathroom, reach and grab something
in the fridge, that's convenient. That place is just 150 square feet.
The world's population is exploding, we're getting bigger, we'll
soon be vacationing in Japanese style capsule hotels, driving a mini-scale Peel
P50 and stroking descendants of Mr. Peebles, the world's smallest cat. The
average family home in the US is shrinking,but it's still over 2300 square feet.
that's 15 times the size of our polish Pied Terrier.