I live full time in an RV between wilmington,North Carolina and Pacifica, California.
That sounds amazing. I've been enchanted with the small house movement for a while now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_house_movement It's kind of a radical departure from a social housing norm, but I actually find small enclosed spaces enjoyable and comforting. Probably something Freudian in there. It's maybe a little odd as my favorite style of traditional housing is a super-wide open floor plan on a mid century modern ranch. Oh well, -whatever. I don't think that most people are suited to small spaces, especially with all of the crap we acquire as a result of our consumption driven lifestyles. If I was still living alone I would LOVE to live in a hyper-small house, -kind of a dream come true for me, but throw a significant other into the mix and that's a lot less likely to ever happen. If we have a kid, then game over, -I'm not sure that even I would want to live on that small of a footprint with two other people. No kid though, I'd enjoy it. The last time I moved, all of my belongings in the world fit into one bedroom in my house. I hope to keep it that way as long as possible, but living in a house with my fiancee....well once you have one, you fill it up with stuff :/
We will be three in the RV late in december when the baby comes. We are thinking about building a tumbleweed or prefab and parking the rv next to it. and getting a little car.
Speaking of prefab, I love shipping container homes: http://www.treehugger.com/modular-design/crate-expectations-... Might be a cool idea for you, as they can be configured for transport rather easily. Plus it's a shipping container. How cool is that?
I dig prefabs as well. Three in an RV would get me thinking about a small abode as well. My fiancee actually loves looking at smaller homes a lot, and is quite keen on them, but she is a MASSIVE thrifter and collector. No matter how much she would want to move into a small footprint house, I think it truly goes against her nature :) Our place now is less than 900 square feet. Most people in the suburbs would say that is far too small if you have a kid, but not me. I personally hate houses that are so large as to have unused or non-purposed rooms, and our place has a basement which can be finished to double our capacity if need be. I'll probably build an office down there in a couple years. The only reason I'd consider getting a different place is for aesthetic reasons, -a MCM ranch would just be pretty hard for us to pass up.
My wife shares your love for Mid-century ranch style and tiny houses.
Weird is there some common trait in the styles or is it just design fetishism. Both deal with spaces with multiple uses.
I think it has something to do with deliberate design with purpose. MCM was actually a very strong purpose driven design movement with a hard perspective. The same can definitely be said of the prefab movement and things like shipping containers as homes. Both place a premium on both functional design and aesthetic (at least in the majority of the lustful prefab homes I've seen), even if the scale is different and the objectives of the design are different. Both have kind of a 'top down' design philosophy where everything flows from purpose.
I've seen said RV. It's sporting a very nice looking Hubski sticker on its bumper.
where can one obtain one of these.....stickers?
Send an email with your address to Hubski at Hubski.com and either mk or myself will send you some. #hubskistickers #stickers