Walked through a display garden in Austin that had a tiny patio with a full size pizza oven

I was visiting a botanic garden in Austin last weekend and they had this model backyard setup that was totally wild. The whole patio was maybe 10 feet by 12 feet, but they crammed in a pizza oven that looked like it could crank out a 16 inch pie. There were also these tiny little bistro chairs that barely fit two people, and a fire pit the size of a dinner plate. Made me laugh because it felt like they were trying to show off every trend at once, no room to move. Has anyone else seen those overstuffed display gardens that just don't feel realistic?

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joseph_ellis851d ago

Man that reminds me, I went to this home show last year and they had this "tiny house" setup that was supposed to be super efficient. They had a full washer dryer combo stacked in the bathroom but the shower was literally a wet room with no door. And the bedroom loft had like a queen mattress but the ceiling was so low you couldn't sit up in bed. I get that it's a demo but sometimes they just throw in stuff to look cool without thinking about how you'd actually use it day to day. Like who needs a pizza oven if you can't even have three friends over to eat the pizza?

joel_butler1d ago

Flip it around though, what if the pizza oven is actually the point and the bed is secondary? Maybe the whole house is designed around being a weekend cooking getaway rather than a place to sleep. I wonder if we're judging tiny homes by normal house standards when the people who buy them have totally different priorities.