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Broad demographic to head to Scoresby from 4-6 March for this inaugural annual event
The popularity of Tiny Homes has exploded over the past three years with many suggesting they could be a solution to the housing affordability crisis.
From 4-6 March (9am-5pm) at the new ‘Event Central’ outdoor location in Scoresby, formerly Caribbean Gardens Market, approximately 30 businesses involved in Tiny Homes will showcase their expertise, products and services. Guest speakers throughout the day will present on topics relating to designing, purchasing, building and installing a Tiny Home.
Exhibitors include:
- Approximately 20 builders with their display homes including homes on wheels, domes, backyard pods, airbnb units and ‘granny flats’;
- Off-grid businesses who cover incinerator and composting toilets, water tanks including grey water, solar power and stoves for heating;
- Consultants who address issues such as how to build your own tiny home, financing and loans, rules and regulations, where and how to find land;
- Passionate Tiny Home ‘livers’ who relay their journey; and
- Market stalls and food trucks.
The Tiny Home Expo is the birth-child of event organiser Phae Barrett who has been involved in exhibitions for more than 20 years. The first Expo held in Brisbane in October 2021 was a sell-out with a Sydney Expo in April 2022 to follow the upcoming Melbourne event.
“There’s a long list of the types of people who opt for a Tiny Home,” said Ms Barrett. “It’s easy to think they would help the homeless, and of course they would, but there is so much more to Tiny Homes. We expect to see visitors who are looking for an affordable way to own their own home or independent living options for children and elderly parents, older couples who want to downsize, potential airbnb hosts, those who are looking for a more sustainable and eco-friendly lifestyle, and many who want to get out of the rat race and ‘go rural’. Interestingly, at the Brisbane expo, not a hippie was in sight. Tiny living has definitely gone mainstream.”
The cost of a Tiny Home can vary greatly from $80,000 to more than $150,000. While there are hundreds of Tiny Home builders in Australia, the demand is so strong that some new buyers are facing a wait time of almost a year for custom built homes.
“The range of Tiny Homes are really diverse in terms of size, shape and mobility. Some tiny houses are not so tiny with 36 square metres not being considered unusual. For example, one builder has a Tiny Home that is nine metres long by four metres high and up to three metres wide with upstairs bedrooms you can stand in.
“Today, we rarely see ladders to clamber up to a loft bed; you can now gracefully climb stairs that double as your kitchen cabinets, to a landing with bedrooms at either end,” she said.
The Tiny Home Expo welcomes the Australian Tiny Homes Association as an exhibitor with ATHA’s founder Ric Butler and current President Janine Strachan speaking every day during the Expo.
This Covid-safe event is ticketed ($20, $25 and $35 depending on the day and time of arrival) with children under 16 free of charge. It runs from Friday 4 March to Sunday 6 March from 9am to 5pm. The Expo features a staggered entry system to reduce long queues to view each house: AM-arriving between 9am and 1pm and PM-arriving after 1pm. The AM visitors do not have to leave at 1pm.
Event Central in Scoresby is conveniently and easily accessible via EastLink and Stud Road and is serviced by bus public transport.
Tickets can be purchased from https://tinyhomesexpo.com.au. It is highly likely it will be sold out so advance purchase is recommended.
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