91 KIDS IN TOW

91 DOWNSIZING

When buying our first home, with two new infants to house, my wife and I didn’t look for the smallest one we could find (which, perversely, is perhaps the best approach when it comes to purchasing property in Sydney). So why on Earth did we think it was a good idea to look for a ‘tiny house’ to stay in with our babies on a precious weekend away from the city?

Perhaps we’d been lulled by the idyllic imagery of the tiny house movement, its lumberjack-, beanie-wearing individuals gazing up at snow-capped peaks outside diminutive weatherboard-clad homes that can fit on a trailer. Being able to tow away your home at a moment’s notice means avoiding planning laws so you can pretty much stick one where you want for an incredible outlook. That in turn necessitates a move to off-grid living and means you’re not contributing to the melting of those perfectly placed snow-capped mountains. What’s not to love?

And so it was that we decided to book one through Kindled, one of a new upswell of operators offering the opportunity to see what tiny house living is all about, its property three hours’ drive from Sydney.

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