So, a resurgence of the RV/mobile home trend?
At a cost of being less aerodynamic when moving the house with some designs?
I do like the look of wood, but it has it's place. Some of the tiny houses I seen online come close to looking like a normal, very small, shed house but in practicality, it possibly doesn't travel well.
Also, I would agree with the comments - it depends on your lifestyle, hobbies, and work more than anything. For me, my 500 square foot workshop says a big no. To consolidate living and working space in such a small manner, HUGE (to tiny) tradeoffs are needed. Mainly that I cannot work easily with larger stock at hand versus having larger tools versus all hand/power tools and a single bench of small size.
Some of the tiny house articles and blogs, definitely sound like it IS the way to go for EVERYONE. That is not the case with many lifestyles, but for those that would work out of not having many possessions, tools, or needing room to work in, it would work out.
Another, is definitely the agreement of designing around the bathroom and plumbing, making sure that these aren't going to interrupt or vent back into the areas you are sleeping in (especially if you are going to store it for composting instead of directly dumping it on the lot you are parked in).
One thing I do not think many tiny house users are presenting, is the relocation costs, utility hook up costs, lot parking, and transversing their house through typical streets and roads along with needing a vehicle of able towing capability and cost in fuel.... These aren't presented in the tiny house articles I have seen. Nor are the given tradeoffs. Just going back to....
My wife had that thing on. If it had actually been about the homes and not about dumb asses who couldn't budget or hold jobs, and judgmental "I'm better than those people with cars and real houses" it might have been okay. Can't remember if I left the room to go play some COD or just shot the TV.
(also, the things are so small forget having company over HEY NOW)