Adventurous tourists and prospective homeowners alike come to the first tiny house hotel — located in Portland, Oregon— to experience living small.
Founded in 2013, Caravan is unlike any hotel we've seen, featuring six 170-square-foot-or-less tiny houses (for perspective, that's less than half the space covered by a standard semi-trailer truck). A night in micro-paradise costs $145 per unit.
If it sounds like something straight out of "Portlandia," that's because it is. The show's Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein filmed a sketch on microliving at Caravan in 2014.
Let's take a look inside.
For 13 years, social justice worker Deb Delman lived next door to a lot that hosted everything from repossessed cars to an outdoor hookah bar. Nothing stuck around for long.
In 2011, she and partner Kol Peterson set out to transform the lot into a tiny house hotel. "This had never been done," Delman says. "There was no precedent."
They worked with city officials on zoning and obtained the first legally permitted commercial application for a tiny house.
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