From houseboats to shipping containers, there's a whole host of innovative ways to downsize and start living small.

Meet the Mayes family, who did just that, moving from a 5,000 square-foot (465sqm) house in Illinois into a stylish 250-square-foot (23.2sqm) converted school bus, which they called home for two years as they travelled around the US.

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