Micro-Chic: The 76-Square-Foot House

A designer in Munich has debuted what may be the smallest all-inclusive homes in the world. At just 76 square feet, the tiny cubes come complete with two double beds, table seating for five, a kitchen, storage space, a toilet, and a shower.

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April 26, 2007, 1:00 PM PDT

By Nate Berg

"This isn't just a dressed-up shack; the m-ch is the BMW of small homes. For $96,000 a cube (including delivery and installation anywhere in Europe), owners get a fully integrated interior teched out with everything from a flatscreen TV to a dining room table that seats five. In the future, solar panels and a roof-mounted horizontal-axis wind turbine generating 2,200 kilowatts of power a year will make m-ch models self-sustaining."

"Since late 2005, students and staff from the Technical University of Munich, where the homes were designed, have lived in the first mini-home hamlet of seven m-chs, and a 16-unit village is being developed for a site near Vienna, Austria. 'There's no reason to have all that space anymore,' says Gregory Paul Johnson, director of the Small House Society, an Iowa-based advocacy group."

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