视频一

Imagine living free from rent, mortgage and utility bills. Imagine living in a home that generated it’s own electricity and captured it’s own water. Imagine you could build this home yourself all for a very affordable price. Now imagine how your life would be different if you were free from debt?

想象一下没有房租、抵押贷款和水电费的生活。想象一下，住在一个自己发电，自己取水的房子里。想象一下，你可以自己建造一个非常便宜的房子。现在想象一下，如果你没有债务，你的生活会是怎样的不同

We live in a rapidly changing world, as economic and environmental forces continuously beg us to re-evaluate our way of living on the earth.

我们生活在一个快速变化的世界，经济和环境的力量不断要求我们重新评估我们在地球上的生活方式。

The Tiny House Movement is a sweeping phenomenon in the United States, largely as a result of the recent economic troubles where many have lost their homes.

Tiny Homes are about living simply, beautifully and yet still with everything you need. It’s about freedom from debt and having the economic freedom to live a bigger life, instead of having a bigger house.

小房子运动在美国是一种广泛的现象，主要是由于最近的经济困难，许多人失去了他们的家。小房子意味着生活简单、漂亮，但仍然拥有你所需要的一切。它是关于摆脱债务的自由和拥有更大生活的经济自由，而不是拥有更大的房子。

What is perhaps even more important than the financial and economic advantages of owning a tiny home, is the environmental benefits. Living in a Tiny House carries a much smaller environmental footprint, reduces the amount of resources we as humans consume to live, and encourages us to consume less in general. They move us towards a more simplistic way of life and open up the possibility for a more sustainable future.

也许比拥有一个小房子的财政和经济优势更重要的是环境效益。住在小房子里对环境的影响要小得多，减少了我们人类为生存而消耗的资源，并鼓励我们在总体上减少消耗。它们使我们走向更简单的生活方式，并为更可持续的未来开辟了可能性。

Traditionally, these tiny houses are around 2.4 x 5 meters. They contain a living area, sleeping loft, kitchen and bathroom and are constructed to fit a trailer so they can be easily moved. For this reason the Tiny House revolutionises home ownership, as it allows people to own their own house, without needing to own the land that it sits on.  It is possible to build these homes to be entirely self- contained and off-grid, generating their own water, and electricity.

传统上，这些小房子大约是2.4 x 5米。它们包含了起居空间、卧室、厨房和浴室，而且它们的构造适合一辆拖车，因此很容易移动。由于这个原因，小房子彻底改变了房屋所有权，因为它允许人们拥有自己的房子，而不需要拥有它所坐落的土地。有可能建造这些家庭完全自给自足和脱离电网，产生自己的水和电。

This infographic from the team over at The Tiny Life explores many of the reasons why people around the world are making the decision to downsize their homes in order to start living bigger lives.

这张来自the Tiny Life团队的信息图探究了为什么世界各地的人们都决定缩小他们的房子来开始更大的生活。

案例一 DIY级别，小房车

案例二 专业级别，工厂生产