What the heck does wabi-sabi have to do with tiny houses?
The fundamental principle of wabi-sabi is that nothing last, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect. The lesson in our book Living SMALL is that a small house will (should) evolve over time because it’s part of a process that parallels the evolution of the life that it encloses. As such, a tiny house must be designed to change, move, and not participate the materialistic consumptions of any attempt to be perfect. Like the houses of squatters, settlers, and workers on any country’s frontier, when its time to move on, the energy in a tiny house should melt into the environment, deconstructed, salvaged, captured and embedded in some other form.
