Mini house: think over every little thing
In any country village we meet the monument to human vanity - cases huge, 3-4 storey mansions. They were built in the 2-3 brick, with base plate, bedrooms 30-40 m², with a billiard room, a library - and behold, there stood a silent reproach to their owners.
A man who dreams of a castle, and not having enough money, but with the mind, inevitably cut their appetites. Gradually, he begins to realize that it's not the exorbitant cost: for comfort are important, not square footage, and the functionality and comfort.
SergeyGo (Member FORUMHOUSE):
And the bedroom is reduced to 10-20, billiard disappear as a class, and the library is transformed into a great series of shelves along the corridor walls. Then comes an understanding of the need for maintenance and operation of their home: heating, cleaning, repair. And please - here it is, a mini house!
In this article we will talk about the design of mini-houses and on successful projects such FORUMHOUSE participants.
Designing a mini-house: the ground rules
Mini home for year-round often build young families and people who have reached retirement age and want to live closer to nature. Mini-homes are becoming the choice of those who are important to reduce the cost of construction and maintenance costs, and those who do not have big ambitions, who understand that enough - it's convenient, and the excess - headache burden.
It is important to understand that, despite its size, the housing is in any case should not be uncomfortable "chicken coop." Properly designed mini-house - a comfortable, very functional space, with everything you need. Very often, the mini-house is equipped with the most advanced technologies.
ElenaElena (Participant FORUMHOUSE, hostess "Boat"):
The main difficulty in the construction of mini-home - a thorough study of the project and the simulation accurate to the millimeter, or simply does not work at such a scale.
By studying the mini-house projects, we often wonder how in the area of 18-30 square meters is possible to arrange a comfortable life. But let us remember that the size of a standard one-bedroom apartment-Khrushchev, in which the family lives with the child, 30 m².
Winny2 (Member FORUMHOUSE):
And it is an urban apartment, which ends exactly at the door! House as the door goes on the site!
Planning a mini-home is always an unusually compact, but at the same time original and convenient thanks to an atypical architectural finds and design solutions that take into account all the current trends. Square meters are used to the maximum, but not at the expense of convenience.
eglis (Member FORUMHOUSE):
You can make a mezzanine work area. There is still all sit, so it is safe to do a bottom at around 1.7-1.8 meters, and more 0.6-0.7 meters will remain on top - that's extra bed. Well, and a sofa bed in the kitchen-dining room.
Mini house continues a well-kept plot and beautiful landscape, so it often makes large windows for a sense of space and unity with nature.
Materials for the construction of mini-homes
As they say the architects, the house should express the idea. The idea of a mini-home is embodied, in particular, in the material from which it is made. Member FORUMHOUSE ArhitektorPKV I am convinced that the best mini-home is karkasnik.
ArhitektorPKV (Member FORUMHOUSE):
The issue of heat loss and the cost of construction does not depend on the area. Warmer insulation can only be a heater. To conserve heat in any case necessary to insulate the stone house only if it is not a polystyrene-concrete, and it is often insulated. Karkasnik reasonably thick insulation will cost 2-3 times cheaper than tile house, moreover, non-insulated.
Designing a mini-house with attic
Design of mini-houses on FORUMHOUSE discussed hot and long, and as a result have been formulated some basic rules:
- Mini-home may be square, to get the most useful area with a minimum of materials and exterior walls. Square - ugly and dark, but this is for larger homes. The smallest of the window to any location - literally on the doorstep.
- Outer beauty mini-houses provide unheated outbuildings verandas, terraces, etc.
- Entrance to the mini-house is across the veranda, without vestibule (not all agree with this, many believe that without vestibule house the winter will not be).
- The mini-house should not be a lot of walls and partitions.
Roberta (Participant FORUMHOUSE):
Small house with two full bathrooms (kitchen-dining room and bedroom) - a mini. A small house with a bunch of little rooms - a chicken coop.
- The mini house should fit zones that serve as a living room, kitchen, dining room, bathroom and bedroom. If the floor area is more than 30 meters, it makes sense to allocate a separate room for the bedroom, if not, you can just lay on the couch the night).
Kromann (Member FORUMHOUSE):
house project from one Latvian firm, area less than 36 square meters. M minus -. in the absence of a living room.
This is a great project for the first house built on the site, and in contrast to the cabins, it can live a normal life the whole family. Then it will be easy to convert to a bathhouse.
If the mini-house with a loft, the bedroom and the dressing room is placed at the top and the bottom - kitchen with living room and bathroom.
Operation of mini-homes, by definition, should be inexpensive, so it needs proper heating and ventilation. So, thanks to sophisticated heating system to warm the house-boat, which we will explain further, can be 3-4 Poleshko at -15 degrees outside the window, though there is set a budget stove.
Convenient mini house on 18 square meters
Mini home for us a relatively new phenomenon, but participants FORUMHOUSE - people advanced against low-rise building, and many of them have a successful experience in the construction and operation of such houses. Perhaps the most striking example - mini house "Boat" for year-round use. On the area of 18 sqm (with terraces all along the roof of 120 square meters) has everything for comfortable living.
The owner of this house - the architect, and "Ship", he built on his own project. At the lowest cost to operate is provided year-round opportunity to use at home, there is a cellar for storing garden tools and bicycles, hot water, bathroom, shower. Frame house was built in a few months: all were bought building materials, and by October the house was ready in May, including furniture. It has everything necessary for life: storage systems, comfortable sofa, which can be easily decomposed into a bed for two, a loft, where they play, and sleeping children, etc.
Report on the construction of a mini-home on FORUMHOUSE It explains why some obtained a masterpiece of comfort and functionality, while others - just close the house. Here, indeed, every small detail.
Some simple solutions affect its efficiency: for example, rejecting retaining roof rack from the vertical to the outside, the hosts managed to expand the space of the veranda around the house. And if the width of the platform veranda on the floor 1.1 meter, at eye level, it is quite a spacious room.
Or this: between the steps of the staircase to the mezzanine where children spend the night, do so much more intervals, the younger before the age of three is not even tried to storm it, and as a result there was no fall.
Heating plate, tube top is covered concrete platform, which also serves another bathroom ceiling and couches. Above the stove is lined with ceramic tiles, and thus, in the winter - it warm bench, where you can warm up with "frost" and dry your clothes.
The house sometimes for several days, no one is, so to support the duty +5 degrees there stands an electric convector.
Mini house with two bedrooms
Member FORUMHOUSE Sasha-K I could not sell the land and decided to build on it a little house to accurately find a buyer.
Sasha-K(Member FORUMHOUSE):
The purpose of the construction - to minimize costs, and that everything was functional.
The house with the dimensions of the foundation 6h4,2 (canopy still 4h3,5 and veranda 3x6) was built in six weeks, twice as fast than Sasha thought through and made draft.
The house has two floors, upstairs two bedrooms with built in wardrobes, downstairs kitchen flows into the living room and bathroom.
Interestingly, the issue of selling the house from the agenda withdrawn: Sasha's parents were told that this is the area and the layout of the house, of which they dreamed.
Margo-amiga (Participant FORUMHOUSE):
That is always the case, per capita invested, and "this cow is needed most."
How to save space in the mini-house
It's hard to get used to the idea that "everything necessary" may take up little space. However, international experience confirms this low-rise building. On FORUMHOUSE considered interesting solutions to live fully in the house of a small square. They were especially fond of homeowners in Finland. Mobile kitchen, modern folding shower, living room, a flick of the wrist turns into a bedroom, and many other solutions. We have selected those that have been approved by members of our portal.
And here we see how a rational use of space allows the use of a small house level difference of 40-60 cm. This is not the most popular approach, meanwhile, the platform visually divides the space, creating the impression of two separate spaces.
Dimmz (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Here, for example, we saved a lot of space.
Or here's an interesting solution to the organization podkrovatnogo space:
AlexMorales (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Of all rational until I decided to use only high bed (about a meter, perhaps, high), and below it to make stock. At low bed so a lot of it is lost places.
When designing a mini-house, the architects are fighting for every meter, sharing visual techniques common area kitchen-dining-living room, and sometimes a bedroom.
Separate utility rooms, bathrooms, boilers, etc. designed the smallest possible size. Number of corridors, hallways, transition and other non-residential spaces in the mini-house tends to zero. A bathroom is a space-saving place, so that he had one riser to the kitchen. By the way, here's a two-storey house project where the bathroom is located under the stairs.
Thanks to the forethought, the rational balanced approach, you can get excellent modern accommodation for a very reasonable price.
On you will find FORUMHOUSE a lot of useful information regarding the design of mini-homes. You can also trace the development of amazing stories Microscopic house of Zurbagan. Read our article about mini house, in which five people can live. Watch our video: about tiny house on wheels and about guest-house mini.
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