A year and a half ago, Lindsey and Adam Nubern rationed their earthly belongings to friends and storage facilities and set out on an adventure that would take them around the world.
They first traveled the U.S., living out of their 2008 silver Honda Accord and a tent. They went backpacking in Hawaii and lived five months in a camper van in New Zealand. It was there that they realized they liked being outside in the elements and, despite their middle-class upbringing, living small.
What if they could do it forever?
They were in Thailand, when Lindsey, a 29-year-old Suwanee native, decided on a whim to email officials with HGTV's "Tiny House Hunters." They'd never been on a television show before but figured they had as good a shot as any to make a good impression and, well, they did.
HGTV liked their application.
“We were so shocked and really excited,” Lindsey Nubern told me at her parents’ home in Suwanee the other day. “And nervous, of course.”
That was in October. In November, the couple returned home to Georgia to begin their search for the perfect tiny home. With the help of Lindsey’s real estate agent mother, they quickly narrowed the field to three: a 200-square-foot urban cottage with shingle siding and a loft, queen-size bed, reading nook, normal-size kitchen and bath, priced at $22,000; a 100-square-foot white Casita travel trailer with a full-size bed, two sitting areas, a little kitchen and a wet bath, with a price tag of $12,500; and a $27,000, 150-square-foot midcentury modern cabin with cedar siding, bathroom, sitting area, loft and kitchen.
By now, fans of “Tiny House Hunters” have probably met the Nuberns.
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