13 May David versus Goliath

I recently read two very different articles reviewing trends in single family housing.  The first story comes from KPCC’s Take Two and it features the  “Tiny House” movement.  A Los Angeles based couple built their dream home… on wheels:

Tiny House

The tiny house movement comes to Los Angeles Take Two | May 13th, 2014, 9:21am

The second article describes the alternate extreme …

“No matter what we build, there’s only one complaint: They’re too small,” says designer Paul McClean.

HOLLYWOOD’S MOST EXPENSIVE SPEC HOUSES: UP TO $55 MILLION

10,000-square-foot contemporary in Brentwood, priced at $11.5 million.

Can a home be too small (I certainly could not give up my full size oven!)?  Can a home be too big (Hello? Echo, Echo, Echo…)?

Although both of these articles look at the extreme ends of the housing spectrum, it  is interesting to note that the average size of a single family home has increased from 1,500 square feet in 1970 to 2,500 square feet today.  In correlation with this, according to the Census Bureau,  the average household size in America has decreased from 3.14 in 1970 to 2.63 in 2009.

 Just a little food for thought…

-hlj

Read more about the Tiny House here: http://tinyhousegiantjourney.com/