I also love the Katrina Cottage:

http://www.cusatocottages.com/index_content.html

And here are some REALLY tiny ones for JBR.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

wow!

some friends in AZ had a neighbor who knocked down all the walls in their one story house and turned it into a sprawling studio type of thing, and then built a “pod” to sleep in in the back yard which was basically four walls, a roof and floor, a queen size bed, two night stands, a sliding glass door, a small skylight, an air conditioner, and a small porch all sitting two feet above the ground and surrounded by corrugated steel. i really wish i had pictures because it was the coolest thing and i’m probably doing a horrible job describing it. they could walk out of thier bedroom and sit on thier porch naked if they wanted to without any neighbors seeing them.

do they insulate these properly?

“girl I’ll box you”

I love that truck-trailer-looking one!

Tehresa, the house-in-a-box one is made out of insulated panels, plus it’s so small—heating it would be cheap.

The Panels

Through the efficient combination of urethane insulation with pre painted galvanized steel sheets, house in a box’s light weight composite building panel is produced. with an Insulation rating of an R24, and a 20 year exterior painted finish.

It’s a METAL house! Like a Lustron house.

A friend of mine lives in one of those in Bloomington, Indiana. She loves it. The army used to give them away. She thinks they still might—I don’t know.

http://www.wosu.org/archive/lustron/house.php

Lustron houses never needed painting, and could be cleaned with a hose

neat!

No House in a Box price list, no credibility.

When you click on “contact” there’s a place where you choose a budget. 35,000–55,000 being the cheapest choice. Not bad for a whole damn house with a toilet and everything.

A friend of mine who I’ve never met lives in a Sears house. She still has the instruction book for it, too. I WANT ONE!

Whatever happened to those “House of the Future”s you used to hear so much about?

Naturally, they are of the past now.

But what happened to them?

I remember a big fuss around Phillipe Stark’s house in a box. It was just a box with plans in it and a hammer. he did build at least one and it looked very nice—kinda log cabin style.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/products/mica

i have been thinking of turning this into a box house

no antlers. not quite a box.