From 2011: The rise of the tiny-house movement.
Tumbleweed also sells plans for small houses on foundations, but the bulk of its business involves tiny houses. It builds about one house a month, then tows it to the owners. It makes most of its money from selling plans and from Shafer’s self-published book, “The Small House Book,” which costs about five dollars to print in China and sells for thirty dollars. Over the past year, Tumbleweed has sold ten thousand copies through its Web site.
Shafer went to the University of Iowa, where he lived briefly in a room with twelve other students, “trying to make this tiny space work.” In 1989, he moved to New York to go to graduate school in art at City College. He expected to become a painter. “I figured the New York experience would be an education of its own,” he said, “and I was pretty much terrified the whole time. My first month, I had a gun pointed at me.
Shafer designs by subtraction. He began drawing imaginary houses, and they grew smaller as he started “to figure out what I could get rid of—mostly square footage, because a lot of space wasn’t used that efficiently,” he said. “If there’s elbow room for the activities you need, it’s good, but anything beyond that is not good.
Jay King had never heard of Shafer, but he is building a tiny house in a garage in Danbury, Connecticut. Until recently, King had been using the garage to build a sports car called a K-1 Attack from components manufactured in the Czech Republic. Farther up I-95, in New Haven, there is a tiny house that was built by a young woman named Elizabeth Turnbull, a graduate student at Yale who is interested in sustainable architecture. In 2008**,** she took a seminar with Jay Shafer in Manhattan, and then went to a two-week home-design-and-build class at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, in Vermont.
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