Compact living in Toronto’s tiny town

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from the Toronto Star:



Compact living in Toronto’s tiny town
Published On Sat May 08 2010

By Jennifer Wells Feature Writer


The whole wide world is a tiny town
Full of tiny ideas
With our tiny hearts pumpin’ up and down
Come be tiny with me
— David Byrne


It is a storybook day on Craven Road, and Alison Smith is clambering over the gate-less white picket fence that contains her eight-by-nine-foot garden.

Smith has a watering can in her hand as she reaches toward the window box of purple and lavender and butter-yellow pansies. The sun is shining, and if the birds started singing in operatic chorus it would come as no surprise.

It is a tiny perfect moment on a tiny perfect street in Tiny Town.

Jack Ridout, real estate agent, calls out a “Hi, how are ya?” with a salesman’s ease, his smile wide, his bearing erect, his graceful mien akin to that of, say, a dance-partner-for-hire on a cruise ship. He has offered a tour of the ’hood, where generations of Ridouts have built houses and sold houses, attended school, volunteered and you name it.

Smith stops, reacting brightly in recognition, and falls quickly into amiable conversation about the history of Craven Road, the epicentre of Tiny Town, dubbed as such by the Star in honour of the neighbourhood’s unusual claim. For here lies the city’s highest concentration of detached houses under 500 square feet. As if you need to be told, 500 square feet is small. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/806871--compact-living-in-toronto-s-tiny-town?bn=1

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1. Time to repost a URL I first heard about here....

http://tinyhouseblog.com/

I love this site! Look through some of the photos. These are mostly DIY projects, but there are links to companies who specialize in designing/building these.

EDIT: TO FIX TYPO