Tiny Homes, Small Houses, Big Problems: An Update
My struggle to build a small house on a sloping site in Queenstown, New Zealand (it’s there now, but tiny). A fascinating saga!
LAST December, I published a post about how I had put down a deposit on a HouseMe tiny house with a footprint of 42.5 square metres, after giving up on trying to build a small house of 70 square metres (753 square feet) on the same site.
I had already had a concrete block retaining wall built in 2018, with a car park below, with the intention that the small house (now tiny) would be perched on top.
Among other things, I thought that — once built — the new house would command quite good views of Lake Wakatipu and the Eyre Mountains on the other, less populated side of the lake.
For the next few years from 2018, as you can tell from the growth of weeds, nothing happened, for reasons I go into in December’s post.
Finally, in December 2023, I put a deposit on a 12.5 metre by 3.6 metre (roof size) tiny house, from a firm called HouseMe, for NZ $138,000 plus delivery.
