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xoxoxoBruce 02-26-2010 11:03 PM

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

Quote:

Anyone who claims you can't cram a quart into a pint pot should visit the house owned by Iain and Rachel Boyle. It is only 6ft wide and 21ft from front to back.
Yet in that tiny space is an entrance hall, kitchen and shower room on the ground floor, a first-floor living room and a bedroom in the eaves. Mr and Mrs Boyle believe that the former donkey-cart shed could be Britain's narrowest inhabited terrace home and have written to Guinness World Records to ask if they are right.
I guess a "terrace home" would translate to row house, here.

Quote:

Mr Boyle, 51, said: 'Property is so expensive in Brighton that our tenants have always been thrilled to find a house they can afford with a garden.
'They don't ever have to switch the heating on - it is so narrow that it is insulated by its neighbours.'
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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ZenGum 02-26-2010 11:09 PM

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

Clodfobble 02-26-2010 11:13 PM

Those camouflage curtains are hideous.

lumberjim 02-26-2010 11:21 PM

i'd freak the fuck out

jinx 02-26-2010 11:25 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 02-26-2010 11:42 PM

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

Trilby 02-27-2010 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 637832)
Oooh, ahhh, luxury, that is. When I were a lad ....

...we lived in the lake!

SPUCK 02-27-2010 05:17 AM

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

capnhowdy 02-27-2010 06:53 AM

I hope they're not hoarders.

spudcon 02-27-2010 08:33 AM

Rachel is touching herself in both pictures.

Undertoad 02-27-2010 08:54 AM

Gotta keep warm somehow

newtimer 02-27-2010 09:11 AM

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!

Pete Zicato 02-27-2010 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPUCK (Post 637866)
Don't switch on the heat..
Notice what they're all wearing?

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.

Pete Zicato 02-27-2010 11:56 AM

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

glatt 02-27-2010 12:13 PM

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.

lumberjim 02-27-2010 12:22 PM

at 6 feet wide, how could it NOT be?

lumberjim 02-27-2010 12:24 PM

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.

SamIam 02-27-2010 12:39 PM

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

jinx 02-27-2010 01:01 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce 02-27-2010 02:10 PM

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.

lupin..the..3rd 02-27-2010 02:36 PM

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/

Gravdigr 02-27-2010 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 637947)
2 floors for a whopping 252 sq feet. If the basement is finished, 378.

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.

SPUCK 02-28-2010 04:41 AM

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


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