7-13-12: Tiny Houses the Next Big Thing?

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Could ‘small’ be the next big thing?

We’ve seen it with cars – with high gas prices, cars are getting smaller and more efficient. It looked like houses were following the same trend – the median size of a new U.S. home in 2010 was 21-hundred sq feet, about 10 percent smaller than three years earlier. But last year, new homes got bigger again.

Architect and industrial designer Daryl Landry knows some people want or have to live in small spaces, so this past spring he launched a digital magazine, Rohous, to serve them.