Currently we are living in a 400 square ft house that consists of shared kitchen, living and dining room area, small bathroom, an outdoor shower and an upstairs shared bedroom with two queen mattresses and small playroom area.

The house is a cob house, not fully finished yet, the kitchen hasn't been installed and it lacks personal touch but for now it suits our needs. We have very minimal supplies, 4 kitchen plates, 4 bowls, 4 small plates, 4 forks....you get the idea, you want to eat you need to wash your plate. 

The house is surrounded by nature so falling asleep takes some time getting used to, and as soon as you get used to the crickets and birds, the tree frog will let out a loud noise putting you right where you started. Zosia has been waking up every night with a notion that something is crawling on her and screaming like crazy. Crawling in bed with us fixes that problem (there is a crazy story about this but that might be another post.)

The house comes with free range bunnies which are impossible to catch but provide a good entertainment for our kids and neighbor kids are the same age as our kids so when the kids are back from school they stay outside most of the time.

We don't have TV and probably won't have one in the future it feels nice not to have that noisy distraction.

We slowly learn how to make it work. I'm happy to say it only takes few minutes a day to keep the house clean. The fact that there is no mirror on the wall provides for its own mini experiment. But its all worth it. The views are magnificent and being surrounded by nature feels so good. Our favorite part of the house is the outdoor shower (the best time to take a shower is in the rain.)

I believe this space is perfect but Matt is not so convinced. It would all depend on our future climate as well.