What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement? | WIRED

Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic.

Save this story Save this story This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1997, Jay Shafer built his first tiny house: a miniature country chapel with tastefully weathered wood, a high-pitched roof, and tall, crimson-trimmed windows. The exercise was part design challenge, part architectural rebellion. Shafer’s abode measured roughly 12 feet tall and 8 feet wide, less than the minimum size requirements for a house dictated by most building codes. “Once I learned it was illegal to live in a house that small, I decided I had to,” he said, “just to

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