![]() Why are we romanticising tiny houses? Why are Sims builders so keen to recreate the horror of living under the stairs? Is Harry Potter to blame? Isn’t The Sims meant to be about living out your fantasies, which usually involve mansions and being able to hire a butler? Sure, except once I lived in an apartment where I slept in the kitchen, and also there are those London and New York apartments that are literally just a sweaty shoebox that costs $US1000 ($1,405) a month with a toilet in the shower. You can check out Gita Jackson’s own attempt at tiny house building to see what sort of compromises need to be made-it usually involves things like open bathrooms and sleeping in the kitchen. Ignoring the fact that you can summon thousands of dollars from thin air, these builders are creating houses with smaller and smaller footprints, using cheats, tricks and finely honed Sims know-how to build something that you literally could not swing a cat in. There’s even that one guy in Hong Kong who has all of his separate rooms stored like sliding bookshelves, as if his entire way of living is basically the same as going through a jukebox catalogue.įor some reason, people who play The Sims have really gotten into the tiny house trend. You can find a whole community on YouTube where people build houses on trailers, in buses, and on teeny tiny little spits of land that they scraped together to buy. ![]()
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