Yale Student's Tiny House Hot Post from One Year Ago

Elizabeth Turnbull, a Yale grad student, decided it would be cheaper and greener to build her own mini-home on a trailer than pay for traditional housing. The thing even has solar panels!

She's done a lot with 8x18 feet of space. The home has a sleeping loft, storage, a study area, a kitchen, a living area, and a bathroom. And, it's totally off the grid!

We wish we had this type of creativity, but we also wonder what it would truly be like to live in a space this small.

More pictures, etc at Jetson Green.

Comments (7)

Honestly, it's more space than you often get in a dorm. Death to student housing. Hooray for solar trailers!

Kudos to her for thinking out side the "box" and her design is brilliant - can you hear the but, I lived in New Haven for 10 years and the biggest problem facing the Yale campus, at any of their schools is -NOWHERE TO PARK! Can't imagine where she is gonna fit an 18ft long flatbed.

Considering New Haven's kind of split personality, it wouldn't just be a matter of finding a place to park the thing, but a *safe* place to park it....

Sadly it appears this Tiny House will be forever vacant.

The Town Zoning Board denied her variance unamimously.

http://www.hamden.com/filestorage/43/5071/zba_minutes_11-20-08.pdf

The best-laid plans of mice and men (and Elizabeth Turnbull) often go awry.

It's definitely at least as much space for one person than I got in my shared double as an undergrad. Too bad it wasn't approved.

Tiny houses are difficult to zone, finance, insure and sell.