...So tiny houses
Hot take, but if you have 5 kids maybe you shouldn't be down sizing to and moving into a less than 500 square foot tiny house. I think the idea of tiny houses are great...but I don't think you should be cramming you, your partner and 5 kids into a tiny confined space. It just doesn't seem healthy to me. Especially when most of the time the kids all have to share these tiny ass rooms and most likely its an open concept where you can literally look from the child's room into the parents room. I've actually seen a tiny house where the sleeping situation was the children sleeping on the top bunk of this storage/top bunk only bed thing with the parents literally sleeping on the actual floor directly beside the bed so all the kids would have to do is look down and they could see their parents. And the parents had designed the house to be like this! Wtf are you doing?! You specifically designed the house so there was literally zero privacy.
Another house I saw these parents had the house designed so that their daughters' room could collapse to be able to expand the house so they would have a patio situation...?
Idk it just seems super unfair to upend your family into a tiny house, cram your children into spaces that are sometimes smaller than a jail cell and force them to share the room with their sibling all in the name of minimalism.
Most children grow up hating having to share a normal sized room with their sibling let alone one where the furthest you can be away from your sibling while being in the same room is 4 feet away.
And listen I'm not talking about the people that go on the higher square footage end of this. I'm not talking about people who do this because they can't afford anything else. Or the people where this is just a cute thing where in the summer their family can go road tripping before going back to their normal size home.
No, I'm talking about the people that get it into their heads that tiny houses are totally in and we're totally minimalist so lets sell our house which was fitting our large family quite nicely, where the children weren't all crammed into one room, where privacy was actually a thing and move our family of 7 into a tiny house that's 400-500sq feet, that will be our forever home, and put our toddler to elementary school children in a small room together where they will grow into teenagers and slowly start to resent having to spend time with someone in such close proximity for so long. And hey while they're at it they make both the kids rooms and the parents rooms open concept lofts, so that should the parents decide they want to have sex-because hey that's a part of a lot of relationships-chances are that if their kids aren't asleep they're going to hear them or maybe even see them doing so because most designs have the lofts either side by side or facing each other. And yeah, I said what I said. Do I feel gross having brought it up? Hell yeah, but this is something that should be considered before deciding to move into a tiny house.
My family watches a lot of hgtv shows about tiny houses and every time I walk passed and see the ridiculous and just down right idiotic decisions made in those shows it makes me so irritated.
I know this is something stupid to be upset over but all I can think about is that its not the adults getting the short end of the stick here when they make the decision to move into these houses, its the kids. They get no say in the move. If the parents want to move the kids can't just say no. They end up shoved in a tiny room with one or more sibling. Most likely they won't be able to have friends spend the night, because there's no room. They might not have any privacy from the rest of the house.
It just seems like a recipe for resentment to me.
Anyway thanks for letting me rant about it. Its a weird pet peeve but definitely one that really irritates me. I like the idea of tiny houses but I can see the cons pretty clearly.
