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Hmm, I thought you wanted to found the MT.O Nation or something I love small houses with brilliant furniture to use whatever space there is.
I Really like the design and ideas that go into making living in a tiny house possible and i think quite a lot of that could be applied to normal houses. The home office I'm sitting in now is 167sqft and I'm running out of space fast.I like the idea of having one as a holiday home though. Plus I have lived in a lot of small places in my life, I'm not sure I could go back to it.
Well said. Our new house is from the mid 40's. Although, it's only two bedroom, so I doubt it was intended for a family of more than 4, and probably more reasonably 3 (unless your two children were both boys or both girls, or one of the kids didn't mind living in the basement).Before we were house owners, and a few rented apartments before that, we had a place that was... I want to say... like 450sqft. It was an apartment in a building that had once been a hotel. It was about the size of 2 hotel rooms put together. VERY small. TOO small.But a lot of times, square footage isn't a great measure of the utility of the space. A well thought out 200 square feet can be more useful in actual living than 400 awkward square feet. And, as VictorLouis just pointed out, cabinetry design can make a big difference. So can picking good multifunction furniture.I personally think I could dump a bunch of crap I don't need, and comfortably live in 120 square feet. I DON'T think hubby and I could comfortably live in twice that, though. I don't think the notion of a 'sleeping loft' would ever fly with him. He gets up a lot in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and is not exactly what I'd call extremely coordinated. Like... he trips on flat dry sidewalks. So going down a ladder while half asleep is right out.
I would downsize tomorrow really I pay a lot of rent for my place and when the tenancy comes up in about march I'm sure I'll go smaller I could quite happily live in one of those sitted caravans or a boat, Melanie my better half on the other hand... =Sent from the astropathic choir.