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I love this beautiful tiny house! It's so much cleaner (in terms of the design style) and cozier than many tiny house projects.

Also, it looks like right now they carry their water in in those refillable 5 gallon jugs, and set it by the sink. I do the same thing for my art studio.

Maybe there is a nearby river they can bathe in or something.

I also like that they insulated it. Great job, guys.

Help. I am in love with your house.

Your space is beautiful. I really like the muffler bed and that many of the objects in your space are not even necessarily functional as their main purpose, or at all functional.

It reminds me of Salvador Dali's house.

Also, in regards to the black dog in a white space issue, the rug is dark. Only the bed cover is made of white fabric. Black lab hair doesn't stick to white painted furniture.

I have two black dogs. Their hair does, however, stick to anything plastic, like a ghost chair.

P.S. I have had evil personal attack-type comments posted about me in the comments section of a blog that was covering something I do creatively, for a living, and it really hurt my feelings.

But then I realized the evil comment attack happens to a lot of people who are self-confident about being willing to go out on a limb and do something original.

Wow. I grew up in the South - in Raleigh, NC, and I am actually shocked at how many of the commenters seem to think it is obvious that a person should remove their shoes inside the house!

Growing up, I had a lot of friends and family, whose houses I would visit frequently, and only encountered *one* person until I was in my late *twenties* who ever asked me to take my shoes off at the door, and actually, taking off one's shoes at the door, or at all, was often considered very rude. No one wanted to see or smell your feet, and I don't remember anyone ever taking off their shoes at parties, unless it was a slumber party. That way you can run in and out of the house at will, without having to keep removing your shoes.

The only person whose home was shoe-free was my friend whose parents were born in Korea. *Everyone else* wore their shoes in the house. And it was not gross. People in the South realize they will be wearing their shoes inside, so they keep their shoes more clean, and there are usually at least two doormats at a person's house, and also often a boot scraper outside the door, for you to scrub off the bottoms of your shoes when you come in the door.

I also lived in London, UK, and in Sevilla, Spain, and shoes inside were normal for the most part. I started making a lot of friends from the Midwest, when they all started moving down to Raleigh, a few years ago, and they all have the shoes off rule, which really got on my nerves at first, for the same reasons mentioned above by the other few people who dislike this rule.

I was also invited to a party where I was asked to remove my shoes, but my feet were stinky inside my heels that I had worn to walk to the party, and I had to run to the bathroom to wash my feet in the sink, and there was only a hand towel to dry my feet with, so I used toilet paper. Also, my shoes are usually a main part of my outfits, and they alter the fit of my clothes, if they are heels or not, and being from a place where people don't take off their shoes, I feel suddenly undressed and un-festive with them off.

And at these parties, if they are cocktail parties, and we are all wearing dresses and neckties, I find it ridiculous looking to run around with no shoes on. Plus I always end up getting bits of food and hair stuck to the bottoms of my feet. I hardly ever wear socks, and my feet don't normally stink, but I don't like to run around barefoot in a lot of people's houses.

I actually am sort of in transition, because my partner is from Iowa, and so we usually take our shoes off at home, or with close friends, but we would never ask anyone to take their shoes off unless they have been tromping through mud, and then we would actually offer for them to clean the mud off with our hose, rather than having to take off their shoes - their choice.

I really think it is a cultural and climate thing, and people from Canada and the Midwest (coming from Scandanavia), and Asia seem to be the most into removing their shoes.

My mother still gets offended when my partner and I remove our shoes as soon as we get to her house for dinner with her boyfriend. And I still get irritated when I am at my partner's parents' house in Iowa, and I just have to run back into the house to grab one item I forgot, but I have to unlace my boots. If they just kept their stoop and walkway clean, and had one of those scrubby grass material mats to wipe my feet off outside the door, then I wouldn't track anything in.

Basically, I think that people have cultural differences in what they expect, and to different people, it is respectful either to take off your shoes, or to keep them on. In the South, the norm is to keep them on, and it is a sign of respect to keep them on.

All of this said, I am not a person who really cares either way, although as a Southerner who has seen her world invaded by Midwesterners with all their Strange New Rules, I sometimes feel like they are ruining my party outfits, or putting their sticky little feet all over my clean floors.

Another note: in Raleigh, people almost always travel by car, and you keep your car clean, so if you are just walking up someone's concrete driveway from your car, what dirt are you really bringing in?

This place is great. I totally love the aesthetic, but I agree that I'd rather see more photos or a diagram that show the layout of the whole space, because I am having trouble conceptualizing how it all fits together.

I love the kitchen area, and the fact that almost everything seems to be reclaimed and salvaged. The people who don't understand how this space is green are just confusing me. All the materials are salvaged! There is a composting toilet, eliminating the need for the harsh chemicals that unnecessarily go into treating our waste! There aren't a bunch of toxic paints and packaged and shipped products filling the house.

I personally have lived in a similar situation, but a bit more rustic actually, for several years, and it has allowed me to save a lot of money and do what I want with my life, follow the career path (music/art) that makes me happy, and I think that adds a lot more beauty to my life than fancy design elements.

This does definitely look like a guy lives here, and it reminds me of at least four men's homes that I know (two of which I've fallen in love with), and it makes me think I would love this guy, Chris. I'm thinking this place will be like a little heaven in about 2 years, once everything is constructed. But I don't think he's going to suddenly re-upholster and paint everything.

And it's a beautiful way to live in the meantime. Thanks, AT, for putting this home on here. Very inspiring.