Teeny House Big Lie Analysis

The article “Teeny house, big lie: Why so many proponents of the tiny-house movement have decided to upsize” by Erin Anderssen shows the perspective of someone who has implemented the “teeny house’ concept into their own life. Anderssen starts off the article with a concise but apt comment,” As we were packing up our cottage last summer, my 14-year-old casually observed: “It’s good we’re leaving, while we still like each other.”” She goes on to tell a short anecdote about how her family live in a 320-square foot cabin together for 10 weeks. She talks about how staying together for those 10 weeks can be extremely difficult due to the lack of privacy and the overall discomfort of trying to cram an entire family into the house. Next, the author brings an example of a couple who was featured in a documentary called Tiny that’s about the construction of their …show more content…
In most cases, the negatives outweigh the positives in the case of living in a tiny home. This unrealistic concept of cramming people into a tiny house and expecting it to be a positive outcome is disproved in several examples throughout Anderssen’s article. At one point, Anderssen brings up the example of a couple who had a movie about their tiny living, only to move out of the small house shortly after its completion: “Remember that couple featured in the documentary Tiny, which depicted their tiny home’s construction and extolled the minimalist lifestyle? They parked the end result in a field in Colorado and never lived in it together full-time. (In a blog, they explained that they left this out of the movie “so as not to spoil the experience of seeing that story unfold on screen.”)” (Anderssen 1). Because of the examples given, we can see that the practicality of this “dream” living situation is just that. A dream. It has potential, but when implemented into reality, it hardly ever works out for the