Check out Stephen Marshall’s website about new regulations for small homes in the backyard, Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs); permits have gotten easier in California:
www.manufacturedhomeinstallation.com
Also, Mike Litchfield’s excellent book on the subject,
In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats: Your Guide to Turning One House into Two Homes
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
glad to hear…It will make life better for lots of folks.
here is a small home I like almost as much as yours, Lloyd…(don’t care for the price, though)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8379763/One-Londons-skinniest-houses-goes-sale-1-9million.html
https://www.petaluma360.com/news/11006637-181/petaluma-revises-rules-for-building
I like all of this! But I was most interested in the trans lift. Useful piece of equipment. Always love learning something new.