Feb 27, 2010: Narrow House
 

Stormieweather thought you might be as fascinated as she is, by this narrow house.
It certainly would require a huge change of lifestyle for most people...
especially a family of four. :eek:

http://cellar.org/2010/narrow.jpg

I guess a "terrace home" would translate to row house, here.

A 6ft by 10ft garden wouldn't grow much more than flowers to look at out the window, but not paying for heat is a big plus. :thumb:

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Oooh, ahhh, luxury, that is. When I were a lad ....

Those camouflage curtains are hideous.

i'd freak the fuck out

“Oh, if only I could be so lucky as to have a house as wide as my master’s door.”

I wonder if the TV police could zero in on that place?

...we lived in the lake!

Don't switch on the heat..
Notice what they're all wearing?

I hope they're not hoarders.

Rachel is touching herself in both pictures.

Gotta keep warm somehow

What's the big deal? When I was a kid, me and my 2 half-brothers and our cousin and the cousin's baby and Ma and Pa (whenever he was on parole) all lived just fine in our trailer. And we didn't need to turn on no heat neither, because whenever it got too cold, we just went to Walmart and walked around in there for awhile. At Christmas, Ma would even buy us a bag of popcorn from the snack bar!

I've heard that folks in England don't turn their heat up to 72 the way most Americans do.

We keep our heat at 67. And mostly we wear sweatshirts during the winter.

I think it'd be fine for a single person.

If they closed the two open windows, it would be warmer. And sandwiched in between two other houses like that, you could probably get away without heating it because the neighbors would heat you. Just have to have good insulation in the roof and exterior walls.

It's too small for a family of four, but for a couple it might be OK. Depends entirely on the bathroom quality though. If it's like an airplane bathroom, that would be a deal killer.

at 6 feet wide, how could it NOT be?

2 floors for a whopping 252 sq feet. If the basement is finished, 378

no way they live there full time. that's a treehouse without the tree.

I get claustrophobic just looking at those pictures. No thanks!

Shower room, and a bedroom? It's better than living in the car I guess... maybe...

When I was five, four of us lived in a one car garage for a year. A sink in the corner with a pitcher pump, a wood burning stove, a hide-a-bed couch for the folks, and bunk beds for sister and me.

The following summer they built a cinder block kitchen and bathroom into the side of a hill, then dragged the garage up on top with horses and a homemade tractor. The steps up & down were six stone steps set into the hill and seven wood steps up to a wood deck the length of the garage, outside. We lived there for a couple years, then almost 2 years in the cellar of a new house, until there was enough money/time to build the rest of the house.

Most people have way more room than they actually need, and most of that is used to house stuff they don't need and seldom use.

The Dutch have them beat. Narrowest house in Amsterdam. I saw it on a recent business trip there. There are actually many many contenders there for 2nd place as well; loads of unbelievably narrow row houses, many less than 2 meters wide!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagatell/128061040/

I fart bigger than that.

That place is so small, you'd have to go outside to change your mind.

That place is so small, the roaches have to crawl along the wall because the floors are too narrow.

That place is so small, you can't cuss a cat without getting four feet in your mouth.

That place is so small you can actually find your own ass with two hands.