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BY JANET WHITMAN
Finding a home for your tiny home Tiny homes are becoming a big deal in Atlantic Canada, but you can’t just plunk them down wherever you want
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ed tape abounds when it comes to finding allowable locales for tiny homes, which are often built on flatbed trailers with wheels and run about 2.6 metres by 6.8 metres (anything wider requires a special permit to move on the roads). Restrictions and regulations vary from municipality to municipality, town to town, and, sometimes, from civil servant to civil servant. Chadwick Dunsford says he and his girlfriend, Sarah Bulman, initially thought about building a tiny home on wheels (a THOW in tiny-house lingo) and parking it in a friend’s yard in or near Charlottetown. “We both work in town, so it would be convenient,” says the P.E.I. native. “But bylaw officers will shoo you away pretty quick.”
Chadwick Dunsford and Sarah Bulman cleared the space for their 24ft tiny home by hand. They positioned the home south facing to make the most out of the sun for their solar panels and did their best not to interrupt the natural rhythm of the area.
SPRING 2021
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