This $118K Micro-Cabin Is as Elegant as It Is Efficient

When Lee Loewen and Payam Shalchian started Instead, an Ontario, Canada–based tiny home design/build company, they sought to enable people to live more closely connected to the land without being pushed beyond financial means. "We were tired of disposable consumerism and having to design for it, and we wanted to pare down our own possessions to only the things we use," Loewen says. "More recently, our disillusionment with the runaway cost of housing and senseless property values pushed us to create something different."