Creative living space
Here is one woman that makes paying rent look like child’s play. McKean Maston, a 24-year-old production manager from Texas, says she’s saving $10,000 a year in rent after she converted her childhood playhouse into a tiny home. McKean started the playhouse with her dad, “When I was in fifth or sixth grade,” she said. “I said, ‘Let’s go build a fort!’ My dad was like, ‘No, you’ve got to build a house because when you get big, you can go and play in it or whatever,” she recalled. “It was probably a six-month project whenever I was younger. All we did then was create the frame and the outer walls. We protected it with tar paper for water resistance,” she said. “That’s kind of how it stayed until right before I went to college,” she added. McKean decided when she was a college student and didn’t want to fork out $850 a month for housing her freshman year. She said the building project, which she began with her dad James Matson, 53, took about six months. Her inflation buster features a bedroom, kitchen, living space, a bathroom and a front porch. It is connected to the family’s solar energy and water supply. McKean’s mother, “Somare” who helped her daughter’s design dreams for the home come true and she spent 6 months implementing the interiors with her daughter. “You have this dream as a kid and you don’t necessarily think it’s going to come true, but it eventually does — and it’s like totally better than what you could have thought!” said McKean.
McKean and her Mom are not alone. Rent these days is constantly increasing with Bidenomics and many people have a rough time making those payments. This has caused a surge in people finding creative ways to find a place to live. 21-year-old Aniah Warne, of Boisie, Idaho, was one of those creative young women, she transformed a shed into a house in her parents’ backyard, and she doesn’t have to pay a penny in rent! Only a couple steps away from her parents’ house. She said, “I do live in a shed. This is my shed.” The backyard features stone walkways and plenty of lush greenery. There are two ways to access the renovated shed. Walking up to her home, Aniah explained, “So I have this step right here that is like a little porch, and this wall opens up.” There is also an entryway door on the side of the shed turned into a house that can access the room. She shared, “So I have my desk, a TV, my bed, and then this is the view sitting in my bed. And then I have my nightstand with essentials, a cute little chair, plant, shelves, fridge. I have this mirror to look at outfits and then this is my closet.” The space looks like a dorm room, just right for a college student like Aniah. The shed turned into a house set up is quite impressive, and one viewer remarked, “I don’t get how people can see this and not want to do the same thing.” If you do not feel constructive or crafty, Home Depot and other improvement stores will sell you prefab tiny houses and some will even put them together for you.
Tiny houses = low rent
The walls of our apartment are so thin I once asked my wife a question and got four different answers.
Nan: How do you like your new studio apartment?
Dan: I have no room for complaint.
My wife asked me why I was speaking softly in the house….
I said I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening.
She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri laughed.
So I was browsing my local classifieds for an apartment when…
I found one which said that the apartment had a “View to the future.”
Obviously, I called the guy, apparently, you could see the cemetery through the front window.
August 13th Birthdays
1986 – Elcin Sangu, 1967 – Quinn Cummings, 1955 – Betsy King, 1982 – Sarah Sanders
1988 – Ray Diaz, 1959 – Danny Bonaduce, 1951 – Dan Fogelberg, 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock