Tiny House Swoon

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readAug 27, 2012

What is it about tiny houses? Is it that they’re like real-life fairytales? Tidy and tight and perfect, understandable, easy to care for. Straightforward. Square, triangle, grass, done. Scratching some perfectionist itch — everything in its place, nothing sloppy or excessive. Controlled. (Hmm, almost like an eating disorder! Haha. Aiee!) Life, boiled down to a tiiiny little house. The architectural equivalent of sauce-reduction. Tiny house. Here is a website that’s just pictures of nice tiny houses if you like to look at and think about them, but would never want to live in one yourself.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com