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Slimmed-down ‘skinny home’ slips onto the DC market for under $600K
NY Post ^ | 05/13/2024 | Kellie Speed

Posted on 05/13/2024 11:27:14 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

We all know what tiny homes are, but have you ever heard of a skinny home?

What originally began as plans to construct a single-family residence in Washington, DC, suddenly shrank when the city unexpectedly changed its zoning laws.

“The developer bought the property, thinking it could be a four-story home that was 15 feet wide; but the city changed the zoning laws, so he had to build this skinny home in its place,” says listing agent Jennifer Young, of Keller Williams Chantilly Ventures. “It had to be scaled down to almost half the width. This home is now just 6 feet wide.”

Listed for $581,903, the slimmed-down, newly built residence has a reimagined design with one bedroom with 1.5 baths. And building the home was not without its obstacles.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: dc; market; skinnyhome; slimmeddown
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To: Red Badger

“It’s like a single-wide mobile home without the wheels..............”

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It’s less than half the width of single wide mobile home, apparently they run 14 to 18 ft wide and this home is 6 ft wide.


21 posted on 05/13/2024 12:28:37 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

Yeah, I was thinking of a Camper trailer..................


22 posted on 05/13/2024 12:32:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: PeterPrinciple

The ‘shotgun house’ was the first thing I thought of when I saw the interior of this thing :-)

‘Shotgun’ is similar to a lot of the typical ‘Florida Cracker’ architecture.


23 posted on 05/13/2024 12:34:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: pburiak

#18; never picked up on that shotgun shack. Looked it up. Apparently Elvis was born in a shotgun shack. You’re never too old to learn something.


24 posted on 05/13/2024 12:44:01 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: pburiak

25 posted on 05/13/2024 12:46:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 21twelve

There are some brilliant ‘tiny home’ designs now. Certainly not for everyone, but very nice for one person, maybe a single retiree, who doesn’t want a lot to deal with:

https://www.livingbiginatinyhouse.com/episodes/


26 posted on 05/13/2024 12:59:37 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s Washington DC - a narrow home is harder to hit in a drive-by shooting.


27 posted on 05/13/2024 1:00:58 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Jamestown1630

I know a couple that live on a “houseboat” in Seattle. Small, but luxurious 2-story place. Lots of custom woodwork, stain glass, etc. They had to adjust to the smaller space but love it.


28 posted on 05/13/2024 1:04:38 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: 21twelve

We have a couple here on FR who live on a sailboat in Alaska; or at least, they used to be here.


29 posted on 05/13/2024 1:12:23 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: AlaskaErik

... and there’s no room to store ammunition ... an absolute “must” for living in the historical swamp (i.e., DC).


30 posted on 05/13/2024 1:17:16 PM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Skinny” home. “Tiny” home. All marketing BS to cover for the fact that no one can afford a decent home anymore. at some point, the public is going to wake up from all the media spin to realize that our standard of living is in decline. Kids aren’t going to live the life that their parents or grandparents did.


31 posted on 05/13/2024 1:29:33 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My truck camper is 80” wide.


32 posted on 05/13/2024 1:30:51 PM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: null and void

BUTT ASS UGLY


33 posted on 05/13/2024 1:41:40 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: PeterPrinciple
This home is now just 6 feet wide

A BS article. Here is a picture of the bedroom. Keep in mind that beds in the United States are 75 inches or more. Notice the space between the foot of the 75 plus inch bed and the wall?


34 posted on 05/13/2024 2:06:44 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s the new American way...Spend more, get less.


35 posted on 05/13/2024 2:31:25 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

$600K ???

Ain’t no way.


36 posted on 05/13/2024 3:16:11 PM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LA building small studios for the “unhoused” 800,000+ each.


37 posted on 05/13/2024 7:22:44 PM PDT by coalminersson
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