Living Small – publication New York Times By Tim McKeough
\nJan. 26, 2024<\/p>\n
The Best Part of Tiny Living? The \u2018Freedom We Have Created for Ourselves.\u2019
\nWith a little house in The Hague, a compact getaway on the Italian island of Sardinia and a well-designed camper van, who needs a conventional home?<\/p>\n
Who says you have to live in one place? Maybe a few tiny homes would be preferable.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what Robert Losonsky and Edith Wassenaar discovered when they traded a typical home in the Netherlands for several smaller ones, adopting a peripatetic lifestyle \u2014 one that prioritizes activities like surfing over work \u2014 in the process.<\/p>\n
Oddly enough, their embrace of small-scale living began with a hunt for more space.<\/p>\n
In 2017, they were living in a 1,500-square-foot apartment in an upscale neighborhood in The Hague. \u201cBut we started to work more and more from home,\u201d said Mr. Losonsky, now 54, who had a career in sales at Microsoft, while Ms. Wassenaar, now 49, worked as an independent marketing consultant and business coach.<\/p>\n
Inevitably, there were conflicts. Ms. Wassenaar, for example, might want to entertain clients in the apartment while Mr. Losonsky was on a conference call. \u201cSo I thought, \u2018Well, why don\u2019t we find something small on the side, so we don\u2019t always have to disturb each other?\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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