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.
Great, I was looking for an “in-between” home!
Actually, I know some couples living on boats with cabins about that size.
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.
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.
There is a market for very small, and very nice, homes.
http://tinyhouseblog.com/
I have a cousin in Tokyo who lives in a house about that size.
where I live, long time ago, there were lots of
houses like that (not so much now),
except they were three rooms long.
You could, take a crap, cook supper, and do the laundry all at the same time.
128 sq ft in Arkansas? The perfect home for Tornado Alley....
House was really cool, BTW.
How long before Obama says “ Nobody NEEDS that much house” ?
bflr
Interesting. Good posts, thread, links. Our maid’s quarters are bigger than that.../joking...I ain’t got no steenkin’ maid’s quarters.
Dangerous, high capacity houses must be banned. Anyone — excepting important government employees and trade union bosses — who live in houses larger than 128 SF are ENDANGERING THE PEOPLE, and must be EXPROPRIATED. Now I believe in the right to have a home. Under my plan, no one will lose their home. We merely “ask” that everyone contribute their fair share by sharing their homes with other American — and international — families. Experts — including former VP Gore, tell us that at 128 SF per family, we can meet the norms of impoverished third world nations, quickly and efficiently. We can get it done!
-—Coming Soon, to A Teleprompter Near You
Ah, small house!
Mine is over 2000sf, way too big for me, so I often dream of downsizing.
But if you’re going that small, and you have over $20k to invest, get an RV and see the country.
Where I live, a 1000sf home doesn’t cost more than $10k; yep, a yard, a garage, and a 3-br, single family dwelling. At a sheriff’s sale it’d be around $1k!
Twenty grand for a dollhouse is just insane.
