Jason, hi and welcome. We tend to get a tad quiet around here, especially on weekends. Check in on us though and ask questions, share your small abode. There are tons of ideas and info in past posts too. Many of the members have been around for quite a long time. New members give us new ideas and love having them shared.

Hey Jason- I didn't even know there WAS a conversation side! You'll have to excuse us older computer illiterates. My name is Jay, a tool and die maker. We live in 1600 sq. ft in FL, but are planning our empty nest that we're going to build on our land in the SC mountains. I'm trying to keep it around 1200 ft, and maybe a timber frame great room. I've gone through a LOT of design changes in the last year!

Hello Jason - I'm Penny, a mental health worker in New England. I live in a small cape. A very small cape!!

Hello Everyone,
I'm a special education teacher in lower Alabama. My next house will be a loft style Katrina Cottage. I can't wait! I am sifting, sorting, and PITCHING anything that doesn't get me to my goal of life in 380 square feet. Please share all of the small space resources you have. I have to find everything on the net. Here in lower Alabama everthing is off the net.
Cherokee_Sunshine

Nice to meet you, you can call me Melody. I'm a sculptor and serious gardening dabbler in central Oklahoma raising sheep and goats on a farm just outside of a town so small that everybody knows whose check is good and whose husband isn't. Our house is just under 900 square feet, but then, our "yard" is bigger than a city block, so I think it's a good trade.

Sunshine, what's a Katrina cottage?

Sunshine, keep us posted. And hope we all have some input for making this change a wonderful experience. Love to see your home too.

Thanks all.

I'd also like to know what a Katrina cottage is. I can't help but think of the horrible storm of the same name. Did that (the storm), inspire it? As a result of it? Something completely different?

I found this website dealing with Katrina Cottages, which they call "A dignified alternative to the FEMA trailer."
Katrina Cottages From the looks of it, they are tiny, well built, and full of character.

There are also several orgs that are not only building new, but also some helping to salvage and rebuild existing housing like Eight Days of Hope. I don't know if they're building Katrina Cottages exactly, but I'll find out when DD gets home. (She's leaving tomorrow morning for Mississippi)

Hi all,
I am the Central Texas Jaybird...living on the banks of the beautiful Brazos River! Jason, I am so glad to see you...if I don't have you mixed up, you are a wellspring of information about building and repairs...something that I always need to tap!
DH and I live on a couple of acres, but they are right in the middle of town. Many years ago this was THE neighborhood to live in. It is quite mixed now, and the homes are in various stages of repair/disrepair, but it still has a air of gentility about it. We COULD live elsewhere, but this still feels like home! (and it's nice to have space for a ball game when kids/GK's come along!)

You don't have me confused or mixed up. Too much. I also spent that time working on, repairing, or updating the homes in Lansing; the oldest housing stock per capita in the United States.

Tap away.