How Small Are Yours ?

The Dwelle.ing prefab house (253 sq. feet/23.5 sq. m)

The interior of the Dwelle.ing house

Simple living, reduced economy access, and a desire to live an eco friendly lifestyle directs the house trend in these past few years towards small (even tiny) houses, with good design of course.

This article Dwelle’s Super Minimalist Prefabs Make Small Living Swell showcases a recent small house design made from a UK-based micro buildings designer.

These houses called Dwelle.ing are made from prefabricated (material manufactured in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled) and eco friendly material.

Yuka Yoneda wrote this article for inhabitat, a blog about sustainable design. Looking from the responses through social media (273 facebook likes and 57 retweet), this article generates quite a lot of attention among the blog readers.

Compare to the other article about the same subject (Dwelle.ing) in TinyHouseBlog, this article in inhabitat have more news hook and presented in the more succinct and appealing structure.

The Dwelle.ing article in inhabitat is more interesting because it is started with the most important fact: tiny footprint (the bigger one is only 253 sq. feet/23.5 sq. m). Then it continues with the next interesting fact: sustainable features such as insulation made from 100% recycled newspapers, double glazed windows and the ability to achieve zero-carbon status.

Not only the way it presented that makes it engages the readers, but also more than that is because the content of the article is thought provoking. Because it can develop a discussion among readers whether the space in this house in an appropriate living space for a person.

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http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/08/dwelle-prefab-dwelleings-13.jpg

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