For years, 36-year-old Anders Boisen lived in apartments all over the city of Aarhus, the second-largest in Denmark.
Despite having a comfortable living situation — a two-bedroom apartment he shared with a girlfriend at the time — and a job working in city development at a local municipality, Boisen tells CNBC Make It he felt confined by his lifestyle and the societal pressure of what life should look like at his age.
“I had this claustrophobic feeling about living in an apartment, not so much because of the size of it but more because of the lifestyle that seems so predefined,” he says.
It took Boisen around eight months to finish building his tiny home in the woods.
Anders Boisen
During that time, Boisen came across a YouTube Channel that featured people living in tiny homes that were totally off the grid.
“I thought it was very inspirational, and it opened my eyes to a new possibility …