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Split tiny house— utility/bath/kitchen and bed/office separated

Dj Cox

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My tiny house idea is to have the bedroom, office, and clothes in one tiny house and everything else in another one near by. Has anyone covered this idea hear before?

We already have a tiny stand-alone bedroom/office. It is a nicely simple, quiet, and dry room because I’m not adding any water to the room. We have been sharing utilities with the people using our main house, but that’s not working for us anymore.

The alternative we are considering, is whether we just build a new and larger tiny/small house that contains all of those things in one spot.

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Hi Dj,
I don't really have any experience with tiny houses, but I would think you would want everything in the same structure. I would not want to have to go between structures all the time if it was hot, cold, raining, snowing, etc.

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If you build a covered porch between the two structures you will have a dogtrot house. Those used to be really popular in the South because the porch is a good place to sit on hot evenings.

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Not only have I heard of this before, we actually live it. One cabin has the living room, kitchen, and storage room. The other has the bedroom, walk-in closet. The bathroom is on a walkway between the two. This suits our lifestyle just fine. But it drove our county tax inspector nuts. So we came up with a solution of having connected roofs.

My neighbor across the street also has a separate building for his bedroom and bath.

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