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Tiny home in Berkeley, California

"Light glows from inside the tiny cottage built by New Avenue Homes in the West Berkeley backyard of Karen Chapple, a UC Berkeley associate professor of city and regional planning who is studying how many such homes could be built around area BART stations and their potential economic impacts. (Photos courtesy of UC Berkeley.)"
http://is.gd/tinyberkeley
Posted at Sunday, August 07, 2011 5:30 PM
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3 comments:

John X said...

I love tiny homes but oy gevalt, $100,000 for that thing?!? No, thanks.

August 7, 2011 at 10:48 PM
Dana said...

I agree, John X! $60 - $100k? Good grief!

Follow the link to the original article. Scroll down to the photo of the interior and note the stairway / ladder to the loft! Eee, gads, whoever designed it ought to be liable for suit.

What is this, an attempt to reinflate the real estate market with cute ideas?

Quote from article, re New Avenue's CEO: "Add to that experience a few years working in the financial industry, an interest in becoming an entrepreneur involved in sustainable projects, and Casey’s fondness for a “700-square-foot palace in the hills” that he calls home, and New Avenue was born".

The guy is totally out of touch with the real world.

August 8, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Lloyd Kahn said...

John X, Dana,
I didn't really read this article carefully, but now have done so, and yes it's expensive, and yes that staircase looks sketchy, but compared to what is available in full-sized homes, I think this is going in the right direction. You'd need to treat the staircase as a ladder (or get one of those folding staircases -- better, true).
See Jay Shafer's writeup on "Why do Tumbleweeds cost so much?) at http://is.gd/tinycost. As to "…working in the financial industry…", if finance guys see profit possible in scaled-down homes, so much the better. As opposed to MacMansions and/or bloated mortgages.

August 8, 2011 at 12:10 PM

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