Posted on 03/30/2013 10:27:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A whole two-level home in Arkansas is on the market for less than the cost of many brand new cars, but there’s a reason. It’s only 128 square feet settled on 43,124 square feet of property.
The Dover home, which is described on the listing as like a “doll house,” has its living room, full kitchen and bathroom in the first level. A bedroom is in a lofted upper level.
The house is on the market for $22,900....
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To me 1,280 sq/ft is an absolute minimum for 2 people!!
128 in the back yard for the dog!
I am planning on down-sizing my home when the kids move out, but this is ridiculous.
This is wrong for most people, but don’t dismiss it entirely.
For a short while I lived in a beat up, over the cab camper as I traveled around the country, it had a shower and toilet, tiny kitchen, not a bad refrigerator, and a stove, etc.
People would ask me if it was tough living in such a small house, but at that time in my life, at that age, living the lifestyle I was living, I pointed out that as a house, it may be small and tight, but as a bedroom, it was a palace, with a master bath, a full (but small) kitchen, a full bed, a dinner table, great windows and views.
In some ways, living in a Swiss Army Knife, house, is very cool and streamlined.
We have seven in 1605 sq. feet.
“One of my favorite TV shows was “CHiPs” in the late 1970’s where Ponch lived in a motorhome and, IIRC, he drove it to work early in the series until he “parked” it somewhere.”
Jim Rockford comes to mind.
Great, I was looking for an “in-between” home!
Actually, I know some couples living on boats with cabins about that size.
No kidding, you would be on your computer (today) and radio gear, sitting at that little fold out dinner table while able to open the fridge and grab a beer without getting up, and your bed would be just above your head and a foot behind you.
Hello ansell,
My apartment is a semi-efficiency. Two small rooms and a bath...walk in closet off the bedroom too and outside open deck.. I took this when I first moved to the area because I needed a place fast and it would work temporarily. That was five years ago and I’m still here and loving it!
I learned through this time a bigger place simply meant filling it. I have all I need....and can have my family here when I use an extra table I have under my bed.
It helped that the landlord designed this remarkably well. I even have a love seat beneath the storage cupboard.
There’s a two seater snackbar seperating the kitchen from the living room....but it’s all one room.
I truly enjoy it here...though I had for a time considered taking a larger place.
Small living, for one, has many advantages I have found.
I lived in one of the last beach shacks(an actual 1890s carriage garage converted into a beach shack around 1920, never a legal dwelling) in Southern California, until an owner of the land finally beat the Coastal Commission and got the permits to build a $3,000,000.00 dollar house on the lot.
Rockford was living in a palace in a way.
I had been saving up for a nice spot of land, but decided to cut my expenses in half. The wife and I just went from a 1600 sqft house to an 800 sqft apartment. Many things are going in storage. But the cost is less than half, so we’ll be able to put in a lot more to the dream of a paid off piece of land with whatever cabin we want on it.
If smaller living is in the plan, let the plan move forward.
I lived on a house boat for a while.
It was cool, but if you have pets...not so much.
Back in the (1990s?) when the giant house thing was going on I sometimes suggested to my rich, elderly customers that rather than moving to another giant mansion when they were selling and retiring, that they think about a smaller place, (appropriate to their wealth, 2,000 feet?, 3,000?) and spend their money on quality workmanship and materials instead.
That instead of going for 6 car garages and mansions, that they think of building a smaller home purely for themselves and creating an environment of rare quality and expense purely based on their own internal selves.
A friend of mine rented a small place that had been a slave shack on Franklin Ave. in Chapel Hill. It was a mansion compared to this shotgun shanty.
And Gonzo Gates, off of Trapper John MD.
someone with a big fork lift will come and scoop it up and cart it off.
In fact my father built my sister and I a playhouse that was at least 3x that size, with a front porch and windows with window boxes. It has power and running water (no bathroom though).
He built it with my grandpa who was terminally ill with cancer. And it is impossible to tell you all the great memories we made in that little blue house! Now it serves as the cutest potting shed in the history of the world. :p We've built several out buildings with family members since then. We recently finished a 400 square foot studio at our house and it ran us just short of 18k. But maybe things are just cheaper here in Louisiana.
Better still is when you’ve moved beyond expensive accoutrements. What too many people do is go through the process of filling a big house with expensive stuff before they discover that small and simple is better.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
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