{"id":16990,"date":"2018-05-16T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=16990"},"modified":"2018-05-16T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:17:55","slug":"tiny-houses-go-large-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/2018\/05\/16\/tiny-houses-go-large-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny houses\u00a0go large in the Netherlands\u00a0with soaring house prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Netherlands has gained a reputation for its ability to design and create sustainable, pioneering residential construction schemes that suit modern city living. On the back of this, the Tiny House movement is making its presence felt in a big way as house prices soar and personal debt rises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tiny Houses measure no greater than 50 square metres, innovatively designed to make the most efficient use of space. Sustainability and aesthetics are priorities; the houses are designed to be moveable<\/a>, environmentally friendly with off-grid functionality. Tiny Houses are big on self-sufficiency<\/a> and include solar panels, rain water collection and filtering systems and features such as composting lavatories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Big voice in the Tiny House community<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A leading light in the Tiny House movement is\u00a0Marjolein\u00a0Jonker, who in 2015 co-founded\u00a0Stichting<\/i>\u00a0Tiny House Nederland<\/i>.\u00a0<\/i>Jonker\u2019s\u00a0own home attracts much attention. Along with students from TU Delft, her 20 square metre property stands on the former site of a gas factory. Erected\u00a0in 2016, it was one of The Netherland\u2019s first \u2018tiny houses\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using three or more cardboard segments, the\u00a0Wikkelhouse<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>features a glass front and distinctive but practical triangular tiny-A,\u00a0designed with a\u00a0triplex Slim fit\u00a0and\u00a0a footprint of just 16.4m. Jonker\u00a0said: \u201cDiversity is key.\u00a0People can design for themselves<\/a> how they want to live and not buy a house because the contractor decided this is what\u00a0they\u00a0should live in\u00a0and dictate how they live.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cramped cities look to expand micro homes<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cities with limited development opportunity and expensive land<\/a> and house prices are beginning to experiment with Tiny Houses. In\u00a0Heijplaat\u00a0in Rotterdam, homeowners\u00a0Noortje\u00a0Veerman and Jan Willem van der Male moved into their\u00a019\u00a0square metre Tiny House a year ago.\u00a0Noortje\u00a0Veerman\u00a0explains:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany more\u00a0cities are offering testing locations for experimental houses \u2013\u00a0such as micro homes<\/a> and\u00a0Tiny Houses. Since the cities are\u00a0expanding\u00a0and the housing\u00a0shortage\u00a0worsens, it\u2019s clear that people\u00a0need to find new\u00a0innovative solutions\u00a0to build houses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Netherlands has gained a reputation for its ability to design and create sustainable, pioneering residential construction schemes that suit modern city living. On the back of this, the Tiny House movement is making its presence felt in a big way as house prices soar and personal debt rises.\u00a0 Tiny Houses measure no greater than… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":16991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}