Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller have been realizing that size isn’t the most important thing about where you live. Instead, they, and others in the “small house movement,” know that efficiency and green living can be more important. Together, they decided to do something mind blowing – even though it is tiny. They built a house together.



Nonetheless, they decided to build their dream home. And it was going to be tiny.

And it was going to be tiny

It look a lot of trial and error, but the couple kept an open mind.

Their little house could go almost anywhere. Building their house on a flatbed trailer was a bit of a trial.

But they decided to settle down outside of Boulder, Colorado

When Christopher decided to settle down, he tried to think of what would be inside of his dream home. It turns out, all that he required were necessities. They are part of a “tiny house movement.” Many people are learning to live in small homes to reduce their footprint.

Building their house on a flatbed trailer was a bit of a trial.

Together, they had to learn many skills to build a house from scratch. Many times, the couple had to approach helpful employees at stores like Home Depot to figure out how to get everything finished.

The home is both economical in space and it is energy efficient. They ended up getting pretty good at it.

It fits a queen-sized bed in the loft area.



Before he started the project, Christopher spent a lot of time on sites like YouTube learning necessary skills. They built it to run on solar power.

They also have a composting toilet.

Both Christopher and Merete moved a lot in their 20s, so they didn’t have a lot of possessions between them. This couple proves that bigger isn’t necessarily better. “The world gets a lot bigger when you’re living small because I can afford to do a lot more things now in terms of cash and time. The whole world is my living room.”

“We don’t all have to give up our material possessions and live in 89 square feet but let’s think about giving up our McMansions and building a little smarter.” So, it was easy to live together in such a small space.

Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller did just that, documenting it in the film “ TINY: A Story About Living Small .”The movie includes a segment on this couple and others like them who are looking to live in smaller houses but lead BIGGER lives. dailymail.co.uk, sources: facebook, aljazeera