The 9 x 6 metre shed that we lived in after the bushfires came after several years of very simple living for me.
I lived in this portable unit on my first orchard/farm for several years:
Yep, that's a single room.
For my second stint on the orchard (after six months in Canada), I lived at a nearby property (a 6km commute one way -- and I was car-free). This was the first place I slept and lived in:
Then I moved to what was the old manager's office on the property -- essentially two rooms. It was palatial compared with what came previously.
Then it ended up like this:
Then I lived in this for around four months:
Which had a view like that from the front door.
And after Machka moved from Canada, we lived in this:
Which had these wonderful facilities:
I did move the bath and toilet indoors in the 12 months we were there.
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All this was over 5-1/2 years. Of the posters here, I think I am well qualified to say that living the simple life off the grid is a grand dream, but the reality can be really, really tough, and it's not a way of life I would return to willingly unless I had a bucket full of capital and could set it up so it was comfortable and without a huge workload.