Book Mobile Homes

Time and again, in discussions of tiny houses and mobile homes , the same complaint appears in the comments: the readers are enthusiastic in principle about the idea of a tiny house, think they would find the space livable, but the houses just aren't designed to store books. And they have lots of books. Fret no more.

Our new line of small prefab houses and mobile homes dispenses with such unnecessary traditional concepts as 'insulation', in favor of providing library space. Lots of library space. Every wall is constructed with built-in shelving for its full height. Walls that don't have to accomodate, say, a window, are build with double-depth shelving - exterior shelves behind plexiglass doors, which swing out to reveal a second set of shelves behind. Or get the double-depth shelving all around, and have lots of window seats. The celings are also designed to accomodate books, via a cunning swing-down shelf mechanism that still allows the use of most of the celing space. (Plexiglass is employed here as well, to make the contents of the celings visible.)

Paper is an insulator, so the shelves should do a workable job of keeping the interior comfortable and quiet. If not, you need to buy more books, obviously. (You can fill the shelves with fleece if you wish to cheat.)

More traditional storage space is available in a few selected areas (a wardrobe, for example, and some cabinets near the stove and sink). Floors are as one would expect floors to be, unless you spring for the deluxe model in which they are effectively a continuous set of storage bins for all the things you would otherwise have to keep in cabinets that would take up precious wall space.

Built-in reading lamps, needless to say, are everywhere.