Elizabeth Turnbull, a Yale grad student, decided it would be cheaper and greener to build her own mini-home on a trailer than pay for traditional housing. The thing even has solar panels!
Yale Student's Tiny House
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She's done a lot with 8x18 feet of space. The home has a sleeping loft, storage, a study area, a kitchen, a living area, and a bathroom. And, it's totally off the grid!
We wish we had this type of creativity, but we also wonder what it would truly be like to live in a space this small.
More pictures, etc at Jetson Green.
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Honestly, it's more space than you often get in a dorm. Death to student housing. Hooray for solar trailers!
view whytephoenix's profile
Kudos to her for thinking out side the "box" and her design is brilliant - can you hear the but, I lived in New Haven for 10 years and the biggest problem facing the Yale campus, at any of their schools is -NOWHERE TO PARK! Can't imagine where she is gonna fit an 18ft long flatbed.
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Just brilliant!
http://xobeau.blogspot.com/
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Considering New Haven's kind of split personality, it wouldn't just be a matter of finding a place to park the thing, but a *safe* place to park it....
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Sadly it appears this Tiny House will be forever vacant.
The Town Zoning Board denied her variance unamimously.
http://www.hamden.com/filestorage/43/5071/zba_minutes_11-20-08.pdf
The best-laid plans of mice and men (and Elizabeth Turnbull) often go awry.
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It's definitely at least as much space for one person than I got in my shared double as an undergrad. Too bad it wasn't approved.
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