Flexible housing / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Mobile tiny house
Tiny house

Is tiny house living in a cold climate good or bad for the planet?

...housing.  Tiny House living is a housing trend that has inspired radically scaling back home size, which is a very good thing. The average house size in the US is almost 2,700 square feet, and in Canada it peaked at about 2,200 square feet but has dropped in recent years.  Today's houses are on average more than twice ...

Sustainably built Prefabricated Tiny houses from FabCab
Tiny house

Tiny Houses: The FabCab prefabricated building WA

...housing options for people to live near employment areas, there is less pressure to develop valuable green space in more remote areas. FabCab didn't stop at environmental sustainability; they also strove to achieve social sustainability by designing highly flexible dwellings.  From their website:   "FabCab typically ...

A Vancouver laneway house
Flexible house design

Flexible house design

...flexible housing: Depending on the stage you are at in your life, you might have kids, they might be gone or you might want to have some in the future. Design floor plans that work for you right now but can be easily adapted to accommodate different family dynamics in the future. Flexible housing starts with a basic la...