Designer’s Mirror-Filled Tiny House Is a Family Home for Two

The affiliation of housing affordability has touched people from various backgrounds all over the world. From young professionals to families with children and retirees, people find it difficult to follow the increase in rents and the increase in real estate prices. Many opt for alternative means to home ownership or less conventional life agreements, whether it can be co-lodged, living in multigenerational households or choosing smaller spaces to call at home, whether micro-belongings, converted vehicles or tiny houses.

Admittedly, these solutions do not necessarily attack the deep causes of the affordability of housing, which range from a shortage of land, loans, labor and equipment to a lack of funding for social programs to business owners and the “financialization” of the housing market. But for many, smaller living spaces can be a way to take a foothold at least on the housing market at the moment. In addition, most people do not expect to be confronted with problems to find accommodation, but sometimes it is only a calamity.

For the New Zealand designer Rebecca, it was an “series of unhappy events” which led the mother of one to become homeless, single with a small child and unable to afford a rent in Auckland. Fortunately, Rebecca has a sister with a little ground to whom she could turn, then Rebecca decided to design and build a small house that she could call hers, who is now parked near her sister’s house in the countryside. We get a visit to this brilliant little gem while living big in a small house:

Measuring 10 to 35 feet, the small house of Rebecca is of the extra-large type, with an additional 1.5 feet wide. It may not seem much, but as we have seen in other small extra-high houses, it can make a huge difference in terms of having more options for different arrangements.

The exterior of the house is dressed in a black corrugated metal coating, and with the contrast of white windows, it gives the house a clean and modern appearance.

Rebecca has also designed and installed a modular and transportable bridge which helps extend the interior space outside. Currently, she has implemented this design experience in a small commercial house product that she calls Ready Deck Systems.

Coming inside, we are struck by the light from the inside. Despite the small imprint, Rebecca managed to create a space that feels really edifying, thanks to its meticulous placement of the windows and its minimalist treatment of decoration and finishes.

The living room, for example, really looks like a comfortable paradise. With this little additional width, Rebecca was able to put a larger sofa in which she could curl up. The large diaphanous curtains leave not only a lot of light, but they also help to emphasize the height of the space.

In the kitchen, we start to see the proofs of Rebecca’s love for mirrors. Not only do they bounce back and increase the amount of light inside the space, but the mirrors also give the illusion of space extending beyond the walls – an intelligent design tip.

Everything in the kitchen was designed to create an elegant look, from cabinets that hide the small devices to the lighting of the LED strip hidden under the cabinets.

The bathroom is at the bottom of the small corridor, just after the kitchen. Here, Rebecca again put these mirrors wisely on a single wall, giving the impression that space is much larger than it really is.

The dusty pink color palette offers a soft sensation, while the wide shower stand – with its own window – makes it feel luxurious.

Rebecca’s son’s room is at the very end of the room, and it is one of the largest children’s rooms we saw in a small house. There is enough space for his bed, his storage for clothes and toys, and a wall painted in star and moon for him.

We return to the corridor and climb the stairs between the kitchen and the bathroom, which leads to the office and to the home of Rebecca. Here, she has installed a series of drawers on the stairs and well -hidden cabinets that offer a lot of additional storage.

The space upstairs is really well done; Not only did Rebecca manage to create enough margin to walk by slightly lowering the height of the bathroom below, but it has also implemented a shiny arrangement here. The home office has enough room for an office with two computer monitors, chair and file storage. The long wall of mirrors here stimulates the lighting once again while making us believe that there is more space beyond the wall.

The bedroom is also wonderfully made, raised on a storage platform and semi-surely with windows.

Rebecca estimates that it spent about $ 142,000 to build the house and prepare land. Rebecca says it was satisfactory to design her own house, but even better, it is to have the feeling of the safety of housing in these uncertain times.