WeeHouse.

Courtesy of the New York Times:
The Next Little Thing?

Be sure to check out the slide show with photos.

"...Mr. Janzen has become interested in the small house movement, whose adherents believe in minimizing one’s footprint — structural as well as carbon — by living in spaces that are smaller than 1,000 square feet and, in some cases, smaller than 100. Tiny houses have been a fringe curiosity for a decade or more, but devotees believe the concept’s time has finally arrived."

I don't think I could handle living in a space quite that small, but the WeeHouse does appeal to me (averaging somewhere around a much more livable 700 square feet). I have found myself lately not wanting as much actually square footage as more open space -- I don't need more rooms, I just want there to be one big room with big windows and bedrooms off from there. And it just so happens that a lot of other people want that too. I have been keeping my eye on loft apartments (that daN and I will never be able to afford) but it looks like one of these babies could be within our reach someday.