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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ellie Violet Bramley

Swiss army knives and compromise: how to live well in a tiny home – by the people who do it

An illustration of a tiny home
Be ruthless: tiny home dwellers recommend gradually reducing your possessions over time if you’re planning to downsize. Illustration: SPENCER WILSON/The Guardian

David Westwood moved into a tiny home because traditional housing was too expensive. He says he and his partner were “working full-time and the weeks, months, years were just going by. All of our money was going on bills and we were, like so many others, stuck in the same monotonous cycle of work, work, work.”

The couple had been on the lookout for narrowboats and caravans when they found a company that builds tiny houses and “just kind of decided that’s what we wanted to do”.

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