Living Large by Living Little
A Minimalistic Look at Getting More Out of Life
How does your space define you? Are you defined by the size of your home? Are you free to move about or are you bogged down by a rent payment or mortgage that barely allows you to breathe? These are questions I was asking myself in 2014. I was renting a four-bedroom house, and looking at buying something in the area, but the more I thought about it, the more I imagined a ball and chain around my neck. It didn’t help that the two-bedroom, one bath house I looked at in Ventura, was going for $500,000.
There was a “tiny home” trend happening and I was starting to wonder if having something smaller might not be a good thing. I looked around and realized that many people were downsizing rather than going bigger. Some did it for economic reasons, others did it to reduce their carbon footprint, and some just did it because it was trendy. Whatever the reason, it has often fascinated me, and I have looked at many tiny houses on the Internet.
