Small Space Solutions | Not Everything is Bigger in
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In 2006 Brad Kittel expanded his salvage business, Discovery Architectural Antiques, in Gonzales, Texas, to include diminutive, one-of-a-kind houses built almost exclusively out of the vintage materials he stockpiles; typically only the plumbing, electrical systems, and insulation are new. Each one of his Tiny Texas Houses evokes a period style, whether its a Queen Anne dripping with gingerbread trim or a gambrel-roofed Dutch Colonial.
Kittel is among a growing group of builders and designers who are challenging the long-standing belief that a bigger house is a better house. But unlike many of his peers in the small-house movement, whose contemporary mod-pod designs seem to be inspired more by the future than the past, Kittels approach is decidedly Little House on the Prairie. Just like a frontier farmhouse, his Rustic Ranch with a loft bedroom, pullman kitchen, and single bath could be used as a permanent home and then added on to later as needs change.
