It was about 16 X 16, and the interior was dominated by a wood cook stove, the remains of a small table, a chair, and what we would call a day bed. the walls were planks, with cardboard on the inside, probably to keep the wind out and for just a smidgin of insulation.
You could walk about three paces at most without running into something.
Now, imagine spending your winter in those quarters--granted you'd have to go out for firewood/coal/whatever you were using in the stove, and to take care of the animals, to use the privvy (if you didn't use a chamber pot--which would have its own air about it, and to get water (likely from the pond nearby). No teevee, no radio, no internet, few books aside from maybe a Bible, and little entertainment. Meanwhile, the temperature out dips to -40 and the wind howls past your abode at 30 to 40 miles per hour...day after day.
Yep, those folks were tough. No doubt about it. I salute them.
My Great Grandparents homesteaded on the Southern plains of western Oklahoma. My Dad and I located their old farm place and measured the rock foundation at 16 feet by 20 feet. Supposedly there was a half loft where the kids slept, all nine of them, and the parents bedroom was below along with the kitchen-dining area. The two hole outhouse was out behind the house somewhere, but my Granddad said a pee bucket was kept upstairs and downstairs during winter. Drinking water came from a nearby creek and a cistern that the family dug. They raised most of their own food, mainly hogs, chickens, and garden vegetables. Each kid got one new pair of shoes per year, and each kid started working off the farm at 14 or so, often staying week nights at the places they hired out to. What a life!