Airdate: Tiny House Australia
Andrew Winter presents a new series with prospective buyers viewing three small-scale properties for sale.
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Andrew Winter’s new series Tiny House Australia begins on Monday.
This is an 8 part series that celebrates the ‘tiny house movement of extreme downsizing’ as buyers view three small-scale properties for sale.
It’s a movement that’s sweeping the world – ‘going tiny’ as people trade in space for simplicity. And now Australians are embracing small too as Selling Houses Australia’s Andrew Winter discovers in this intriguing local series, Tiny House Australia.
In a country like Australia where homes are among the largest in the world, with an average house coming in at 243 square metres, tiny houses – with some measuring just 10 square metres – are proving that size doesn’t matter, it’s creativity that counts.
Each 30 minute episode follows real prospective homebuyers on a quest to find their mini dream home. But even though these homes are small in stature, the challenges of finding the perfect mini-home is as big as, or even bigger than, any real estate hunt.
With three homes to choose from in each episode, our buyers will have a tough choice deciding which small space to go for, because picking the right one is a huge decision.
Viewers will meet Alanna and Zeb, who hope to leave big-city Brisbane and move two hours away to small-town Kin Kin, QLD. They’re on the hunt for a simpler, stress-free life, and a tiny home with land so they can raise livestock and live sustainably. But with her strict budget and his need for a big kitchen, will they be able to find the right home to fit their family of five?
Then there is Taylah and Thomas who, after dating for three years, have decided to buy their first tiny home together. Thomas is a high school teacher and Taylah is just starting college, and although this young couple wants to go tiny, they want a home that’s spacious enough to each have their own private space. With a small budget and differing views, will they find a home to suit their individual tastes, or will going tiny be a recipe for disaster?
From a 29 sqm tent house to a 37 sqm tiny tower loft, our families soon learn that despite being small, the tiny house movement isn’t necessarily about sacrifice.
Monday January 4 at 9.30pm on LifeStyle HOME.
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7 Responses
OK here’s something to follow up for the series…let’s find out which “buyers” actually purchased one of the Tiny Homes on offer?
My bet – Zip, zero, Nil.
This is staged people , don’t believe a thing !
Sorry to disappoint. First ep shows family several months later living in one of 3 homes viewed.
I want to know if it is staged like House Hunters, where the buyers already have to be in escrow for one of the three houses and pretend to like the other two the show finds. I am also put off by misspelled names like ‘Taylah’, so another negative.
Heard the rumours about house hunter style shows where people looking for the house already have picked a house and looking at others just for the show. Then I recall an episode I watched on hgtv on fetch of either Hawaii life or House Hunters (same idea) where the couple looking for the house didn’t pick any of the houses they saw and went with an alternative not really shown. So who knows? At the end of the day almost all tv shows have some form of “manufacturing” and therefore viewers have to have some degree of scepticism. Is it realistic for say a couple to sit in a coffee shop and have a two minute conversation on a house that could have big lifestyle and financial consequences? These shows are probably just an excuse for a viewer to pass 20 or so mins watching a variety of housing in the some part of the world with not much thought as to who is buying / renting.
I’d rather a slightly contrived program where a house still gets chosen over that ridiculous Escape to the Country show where they never reveal what the couple decide to do.
good to see a local version come out. I just wished it was on FTA.
I’ve watched the US version (well, similar version of the show) on 9Life called “Tiny House, Big Living” – the only show I have regularly watched on this new channel. It’s a great little gem of a show.
I like tiny house, big living too.
I wonder is the foxtel version will find an audience. Going tiny is about saving money and for many foxtel is a luxury item. So will viewers interested in tiny living be foxtel subscribers?