Is it weird that I love looking at pictures of tiny houses? I know there’s this whole small house trend happening, especially in countries where space is limited, but it always fascinates me to see pictures of the tiny living spaces where many people live. Most of these houses are smaller than a bus! They are seriously tiny! Check out this link to one of my favorite tiny house website: Tumbleweed Houses

And no, these are not images of doll houses—they are actual photos of homes! Isn’t it amazing how small they are? And yet, they look so livable!

Looking at photos of these tiny homes makes me wonder if I could ever live in such a small place. It makes you realize that you would have to cut down to the bare necessities, which would be difficult at first but would be an interesting process. Needless to say, I imagine it would be quite cozy.

These tiny homes also teach you how to utilize a space to its maximum capacity. In most of these homes, the bed is near the roof and every inch of the house is equipped for storage. It would be really cool to see these techniques applied to larger scaled houses. In fact, we can even apply these creative organizational principals to organizing our own rooms and spaces. Maybe try exploring hidden spaces in your room and think about how you might be able to use that place for storage! I recently saw a bedroom where the girl had lined up books under her bed instead of having a bed skirt, and it looked like a little library under her bed! It was a book lovers dream.

This is very off topic, but I have also always wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo. I don't particularly want to live in a house made of ice, but at the same time I think it would be cool to live buried under the harsh winds in a little warm caccoon (are they even warm?!) Speaking of interesting places to live, when I was little I really wanted to live in the Spice Girls tour bus from the movie “Spice Life.” I used to think about it all the time. Even now I wish I lived in a tree house so I guess not much has changed...

Would you want to live in a tiny house? Or a tree house? Or the “Spice Life” bus for that matter? What would be the one thing you would insist on bringing with you, even if you didn’t have the space for it?

PS: How many of you secretly want to live in an igloo too?

Images courtesy of Trevor Tondro for The New York Times  and MyShappyStreamsideStudio