These tiny 25sqm ‘shed-on-wheels’ homes are being touted as the latest solution to the housing shortage in Germany with whole villages of the tiny houses planned.
Small and compact, the ‘Tiny Houses’ produced by the company Tiny House Diekmann in Hamm, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany are not only used as garden houses and mobile homes on caravan sites, but now as permanent homes as a way round soaring rent and property prices.
The houses are already proving so popular that whole estates of the Tiny Houses are being planned.
The tiny houses are between 22 and 25 square metres and are transportable like a mobile home.
Stefan Diekmann, Director at the company said: “The houses are not only camping standard but full living quality.”
The houses cleverly use space and are fully fitted with everything you would expect in a modern-day house.
Vera Lindenbauer, spokesperson for Diekmann Tiny Houses said: “The demand is enormous. We are delivering these houses all over Germany.
The houses cost on average between 60,000 and 65,000 EUR (55,000 and 60,000 GBP) and owners need a plot of land and planning permission for their homes.
Lindenbauer added: “In almost every large German city you will find a Tiny House Initiative.
The Tiny Houses can also be used in gardens and as office space.
In Dortmund, a Tiny House village of 40 to 50 houses is being planned and there are already more than 100 people interested in the project which will take up to two years to complete.
Gerald Kampert from the Dortmund Town Planning Council said: “We are offering small, value for money plots of land for Tiny House buyers.”
“Large houses in the cities use up a lot of space. We need to find environmentally friendly, space saving alternatives.”
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