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From the moment I heard about the tiny home concept, I was in love. Unfortunately, my husband was not. It’s one of those married challenges:  The standoff on where and how to live. However for 35-year old divorcée Megan Lockhart, she no longer needs to worry about such standoffs. Instead, she is embracing the tiny home idea, not just for her own pleasure, but also as a learning opportunity for her two kids. (1)

416-Square-Foot Tiny Home

As a single mom, Megan decided living in a 416-square-foot home in the mountains offered a turning point for her family. “I know it sounds really cheesy, but I wanted to show the kids that you can literally do anything,” she says. But she also wanted them to know “stuff” isn’t everything. (1)

“It’s so cliché and so common, but you don’t need stuff, you really don’t,” she says. “I wanted them to learn life skills, like how to be outside, to know what that plant is, how to build a treehouse, how to just make their own playground outside. And they were doing that.” (1)

Tiny Home Perfect After Divorce

It started when she got divorced and realized she could make her own choices. She did experience initial “sticker shock” when she found tiny home does not equal tiny price. “You have to look at the value, you have to look at the market, you have to look at how popular they’re becoming,” she says. “It’s all perspective. You can build a tiny home that’s $300,000 or you can build a tiny home for 20,000, but it’s up to you.” (1)

Her career offers the luxury of working from anywhere, now that she is no longer tied to a husband stuck in a city and an office-bound job. She was free to work where she wanted, which meant she was free to live where she wanted. The idea of downsizing appealed to her. She found she could have the best of everything she wanted without the need to invest in a massive home. She decided to shed the big house and literally head for the hills. (1)

Tiny Home Perfect For Three

Tiny living saves money and simplifies everything. She owns 40 acres of land in Golden, British Columbia, Canada, and a home she can take with her if she decides to sell the property.  Along with her kids aged 9 and 6, she moved to her new home in January 2020 and never looked back. (1)

The tiny home has three bedrooms, a bathroom, and a full kitchen. What it lacks in square footage it more than makes up for in functionality and practicality. The kids each have cozy loft bedrooms. “You don’t have a lot of room to cover, so you get to choose the things you really want,” she says. (1)

“Going through the decision process was difficult because you don’t know what you don’t know,” she says. “You make one small change and everything else has to be adapted to it. Every detail was really thought out.” (1)

Even A Bit Smaller

“You don’t have to completely release everything that you love in your current life to go tiny,” she says. “Sometimes I think the kids and I could’ve gone a little bit smaller,” she says. (1)

The lifestyle suits them fine, bringing them closer together and releasing Megan from a big mortgage. (1)

Moving in just ahead of the pandemic, she found her tiny home appealed to people fleeing the city. She temporarily rents her home, dubbed “The Tiny Rosehip” to pay it off, and plans to move back in the summer of 2021.  (1)

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