Tiny houses have become big business in the holiday industry with COVID-19 luring many travellers into the countryside to try out simpler, more minimal living in back-to-nature surrounds.
Many hosts can t keep up with soaring demand to rent the super compact 14.4 square metre spaces from people eager to get away from it all – including their possessions. We thought we d maybe get bookings for weekends, but COVID changed everything, says Margo Keenan, who installed a tiny home on her Malniri Park thoroughbred horse farm at Freemans Reach on the Hawkesbury, about an hour s drive from Sydney.
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Photo: Jason South When we opened up again in June after all the lockdowns it went like wildfire and we found sometimes it was being rented out for 28 nights a month. We just couldn t keep up with demand.