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clear plan on how to make our ideas
work. It had no closets and no guest
space: certainly not the house for
a bed & breakfast! And how in the
world would we live here with a
child? I simply could not see past all
these obstacles.
Until I scrolled past a friend's
post on Facebook: a tiny house that
looked like it came right from Sto-
rytown — except someone actually
lived in it! That mind-blowing post
led me to a movement of brave souls
downsizing their possessions to live
in infi nitesimally small spaces: the
small house movement.
If they could do it, maybe we
could, too.
For better or worse
By 2013 we were selling and
giving away more than half our
possessions. Nothing was spared. In
December 2014, we moved ourselves
Mackey and her husband, John, share the 125-square-foot sleeping loft with their two
young children.
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