Magazine No. 130 August Issue Living in a small house, unpacking a home with freedom | Small Days

A less-than-perfect home is just enough When I was a child, I opened a storybook, and I went from being ignorant to understanding: "Once upon a time, there were three little pigs. The eldest pig built a thatched house, the second brother pig built a wooden house, and the little pig built a brick house..." It turned out that this was a divine prophecy, and the choice What kind of house actually affects most of our lives. However, the tiny home movement, which has become very popular abroad in recent years, deviates from traditional residential thinking, opens up the imagination of home, and corresponds to the thinking and practice of subtractive living and residential justice. In this issue of "Little Days", we dug into the owners of small houses living in cities, mountains and sea countryside, and shared their homes and lives, as well as the reasons for choosing to live in small houses. See how they used reduced space and simple life to awaken their awareness of survival and exchange for freedom, and also talk about the difficulties they encountered in the process. In the North Coast and Nantou Deer Valley, some people chose mobile wooden houses; Ms. Lin, who retired from the technology industry, and her husband learned the permaculture method and started living experiments in the cabins. Teacher Jiang, who once lived in a Japanese wooden bungalow when he was a child, gave up the open-plan house and chose a wooden house with a roof balcony to realize his dream and start a second life full of grace with his daughter. Living in the city has never been easy. In a Tokyo alley, Mr. Chen Weixuan, an illustrator from Taiwan, moved into a small house with a tree in the courtyard during the epidemic. He practiced writing in the small tree house every day and ushered in a full-time creative career. In the high-ceiling small house of Mr. Issa and Mr. Issa in Taipei, the designer cut the mezzanine to introduce light, creating a transparent and flexible living space where cats can feel comfortable. In Paris, there is a saying that only poor people live in new houses, while the real rich and nobles will choose 160-year-old Haussmann apartments. But the landlord is happy to rent the maid's room on the upper floor to Asian students. Although Sanping is small, it has the best skylight in the entire apartment. The architect's ingenuity allows everyone to share the bright skylight of Paris. Annabelle, a Taipei woman who is single again, has lived in houses of different sizes, and finally found her own room in a ten-square-meter hotel and social house. She lived an ideal life at the pace of a travel, and found that all she needed was a suitcase and a bathtub. Although cabin life seems wonderful, you still need to carefully evaluate it before practicing it. Home life researcher Lin Dailing proposed seven review memos to understand whether you are suitable. During this interview, I felt very much like when I was a kid, carrying my schoolbag and going to my classmates’ houses to do homework. Doing homework was always just an excuse. Every time I unbox a home, I read about a different life. I found that there is no standard for the so-called perfect house or life, but what can bring us lightness and looseness often comes from a thought - "Just enough is enough!" ▎One thing Long live air conditioning Capturing light rail scenery in motion Explore the secrets of military dependents’ villages in the city Good omens brought by total solar eclipse Go to Berlin to listen to opera and reconcile with Wagner Travel souvenirs from Copengen ▎Artist’s creative diary Wuba Yang: Cutting Taiwan’s ferns into life ▎Column Luo Ting Ling: Expert in counting ants Huang Haoping: Assessing the necessity of preparing for soul exchange Chen Wenlin: Bookstore Riri ▎Cover story My Tiny House Live in a small house, unpack and feel free to live in a home 🏡 Part I Home ▲ The small tree house where the illustrator lives in a Tokyo alley ▲ Learn about Permaculture life from nature at the Chippei hut on the north coast ▲ Find the happiness of living in a wooden bungalow at Deer Valley Grace Lodge ▲ A simple life is enough. It’s not perfect, but it’s our home and our cat’s home. 🏡 Part II Single room ▲ Live an ideal life like traveling in the Shiping Hotel Club in the city center ▲ Both the poor young man and Emily lived in the bright sky of the maid’s room on San Ping in Paris. 🏡 Part III Do I get along with the cabin? Seven review memos for home life researchers 🏡 Part IV: Small buildings of masters that enlighten different generations ▎Our favorite store When listening to vinyl, the days slow down and let the music exist gracefully in the space. ▎Little Days × Extraordinary Mulan Unboxing Place Progressive Style Budai, 100 scenes of life in a coastal fishing village