This family builds a small village: a tiny house for each teenage child

A family in Kentucky has built a sustainable village of tiny houses, one for each family member.

He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

This family has made every teenager's dream come true: to have a space all to themselves and the necessary privacy. How? By building a village made of tiny houses for children and parents that also focuses heavily on sustainability!

Home Sweet Home! This is probably what the boys of the Brinks family will think every time they return to their village of 6 small houses. Small but functional places where everyone can enjoy both the company of others (if he wants) but also be at peace with himself.

Five years ago, the Brinks bought an 8-acre property in Kentucky with the idea of transforming it into a small sustainable village made of tiny house, one for each family member.

The project was actually carried out and the 4 family members share 6 spaces: the parents' house, two separate houses for Lennox and Brodey (the two children), a house with two bathrooms, a pool house (house with a swimming pool where the family gathers) and a small office.

The parents' house is not only the most expensive of the property (it cost little, however, only 9 thousand dollars) but also the largest (in any case just over 26 square meters, the others are only 15 square meters).

This family builds a small village: a tiny house for each teenage child

Foto © Lennox Brinks

Spaces are small but that doesn't stop the family from having a well-equipped kitchen and full-size bathtub.

Foto © Lennox Brinks

If they want then get together all together have available la pool house, with different areas where the family can relax or play together. Opposite there is also an above ground swimming pool, very used during the summer.

Foto © Lennox Brinks

We said that it is a sustainable village. Small houses are in themselves a great way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and represent a more ecological way of living than a standard home also because many use solar energy. In choosing the structures, the Brink family was also attentive to details, the parents' house, for example, was modified to allow maximum sunlight to enter.

Tiny houses are easier to heat and cool thanks to the small spaces. Furthermore, the family, in the context of its sustainability choice, only produces a lot of waste a week.

“The reason we have so little garbage is that we try to respect the very important rule of the RRRR: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle. We almost always reject plastic food bags and use cloth bags. We compost almost all of our food. We feed our leftovers to the chickens. We recycle anything that can be recycled. We rarely use our tumble dryer, ”said Keli Brinks.

Foto © Lennox Brinks

Only downside is that the houses of the two children have no bathrooms, so the boys have to go to the nearest house which has two. But they don't seem to be living it that badly:

“It looks a lot worse than it is. I wear a coat if it's cold or raining. I'll just cover up and run over there, ”Lennox said of the outdoor bathroom issue.

The property also includes a barn and a chicken coop, an integral part of the sustainable lifestyle that this family has chosen.

Source: Insider

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