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Tiny Frugal Home is Designed to be Delightful

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The L41 home is an ultra-compact 220 square foot, sustainable, high-design, high quality, energy-efficient house designed for a new greener generation of the newly frugal, epitomized by the author of the Tiny Life Blog who found it.

Having seen their parents become “upside-down” in their mortgages, some young people are looking at a way to own a home without going into debt for thirty years.

At just $50,000 this tiny home makes it possible for those who decide to own a home to live within their means.

The designers of the L41; Architect Michael Katz and  Artist Janet Corne were determined not to add to the carbon emissions of concrete construction, so the house is all wood; but a special kind – beetle-killed Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panels.

CLT panels (made of planks laminated in layers at right angles to each other and glued together under great pressure) can be as large as 18’ by 60’ and 2” – 24” thick.

Katz and Corne envision a CLT tiny home adapted into modular apartment housing. CLT panels are so strong, earthquake and fire-proof that CLT can be used as a substitute for concrete in medium-rise buildings. Already a 9  story building has been built in London using CLT panels, 15 stories is being planned in Milan and the Norwegians are designing 17 stories.

Source: The Tiny Life Blog