Advocates and cities see challenges and opportunities in tiny homes? path to the mainstream ?Of course, ?tiny home? is a term that has no meaning.?
Dan George Dobrowolski firmly believes that the best spaces are small spaces. Owner of Escape Tiny Homes, a Wisconsin-based tiny home manufacturer located in Rice Lake?in the sparsely populated northwest corner of the state?Dobrowolski started building small homes 25 years ago.
Dobrowolski has never understood the trend toward excessive suburban homes, the hubris of building a ?palace of Versailles with 80 percent wasted space.? That?s one of the reasons he began to build smaller decades ago, creating a business that now cranks out hundreds of homes a year.
He?s also never understood why people write off tiny homes as a fad. Of course, on one level, he understands: HGTV shows, the pull of twee cabin for Brooklyn millennials, the explosion of builders jumping on the bandwagon of an emerging trend (?three guys in the backyard trying to toss these things together?).
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The Vista model tiny home by Escape.

But he thinks there?s so much more to tiny homes than a lifestyle choice. With today?s economic pressures, this is a market ready to explode. As one of the nation?s larger tiny home builders, Escape has seen business grow by roughly 200 percent the last few years, with plans to add two more factories to eventually ramp up production to thousands of units a year.
?Nobody has a fix on this,? ...