Could you live (happily) in a micro apartment?

[Jamastiene]

138. I do like the cabin idea.

You can keep it rather small as far as how much space it takes up at ground level and have a loft area too. I have seriously been thinking about saving up for one of those barn shaped sheds I have seen. Some insulation and plumbing and a small root cellar below it and it would be doable. I'd certainly like it. My only stipulation would be no pressed board for the walls or roofing material. That stuff gets wet and you find yourself living in glue and sawdust with problems galore. I'm a stickler for old timey plywood. If I ever get to remodel this place I live now (if I ever get it paid off), I'm going to redo the floors and at least get rid of the pressed board. That stuff has already messed up and made me have to rebuild the floors in two rooms. That pressed board crap turns any place into a money pit. Add high southern humidity at all times and it is a recipe for disaster.

But, the cabin idea, with a few modifications on the type of wood used, I like that idea. I had a friend who was given a thick beam from an old church that partially burned. He took that and built a guitar out of it. It was beautiful too. I like plain old pine and there are zillions of them around where I live. They grow fast and can be replanted to grow right back to the size they were in just a few short years. Plus, as pine wood ages, it hardens. The only problem is, the sap never leaves the wood and it becomes what we call lider wood down here. It is highly flammable and burns to a crisp at severely high temperatures. Makes great firestarting wood, but you would not want to use it as the regular logs for constant burning, because it pops and sends out super hot embers too much. Still, if there was a way to work around the resin becoming flammable and keep the fact that it gets super hard and sturdy with time, pine would be a good easily sustainable building material for green living.