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More and more Kiwi families are exploring the range of opportunities that tiny homes present. With simplified living, freedom and an escape from the rental trap, it's getting more accessible for New Zealanders to own their own home, thanks to tiny transportable houses. The HouseMe range has various options to suit different requirements, and in this blog, we'll give an overview of the range available for sale.
Read moreBorrowing the funds required to buy your HouseMe transportable home just got a lot easier thanks to HouseMe and their partnership with Squirrel!
Read moreFinding the right business to work with can be tricky when it comes to building your Tiny Home. Admittedly, you're spoilt for choice as more and more companies like ours are popping up. Unlike the housing industry, there are slightly different regulations around building transportable homes, so it's only with a reputable business that you get the full peace of mind you need.
Read moreFollowing on from our 'Big Buzz around Tiny Homes' blog featured a few weeks ago there have been a lot of people making the big transition to small home living. Over the years we carry a lot of clutter and almost 80% of the things we items we keep are never used. It goes even further, 25% of people have 2 car garages that cannot fit a single vehicle inside, purely because they're filled with too much stuff! All of this outlines a problem with how we look at the things we own. Instead of regularly re-evaluating the necessity of items in our homes we keep them, often 'just in case'.
Read more‘Boomerang kids’ are the children that are returning home after a period of independence. This time period could have been for university or when they entered into their first serious relationship and have lived with their partner for a time. Whatever the circumstance many are finding they need to return home which means ‘empty nester’ parents, enjoying their time of independence, are finding grown children moving back in with them.
Read moreTransportable homes seems to be a title that should explain everything. After all, how confusing can the concept of a home that is transportable be? It turns out that the world of transportable homes is not as black and white as it may appear. How moveable does your house need to be to count as transportable?
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Living in a small house or an apartment is not about giving up space, but being selective with what you keep or buy and getting clever about how you store it. Rather than see it as a life of saying 'no' to buying new things you should instead see it as a life of thinking differently about how new items fit into your life.
Buying a transportable home presents many benefits. Not only is it a low cost solution over buying and building a home but their temporary nature can also allow them to be an investment that adapts with your lifestyle. As they can be relocated they often don't require the same council consents as houses in New Zealand. But what is a transportable home?
A second dwelling has some great potential. You might choose to use one as an extra sleep-out for growing teenagers, a relative or you might choose to use it for a second income. However you choose to use it there are a number of benefits to choosing a second dwelling that can be moved in with little disruption, and removed again in the future.