The Cellar - Feb 27, 2010: Narrow House

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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:

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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.

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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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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?

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 637832)

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

...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!

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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.

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.