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8'-6" wide house (post #175919)

renman on Sun, 10/16/2005 - 21:18
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 I have just recieved approved plans for a house on a 16' X 200' lot in vancouver, BC. The house will be as large as allowed by the city. The result is house that is 8'-6" X 80'-6" with two two floors on a full basement with a rooftop deck.


Does anybody know what the narrowist freestanding house built is?

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by woodguy99 in reply to renman [original] on Sun, 10/16/2005 - 23:29

Wow, that's narrow.  A few years back Fine Homebuilding featured a very narrow house, as I recall it was 10' wide, and Dwell magazine has narrow houses quite often, but you may be the winner for narrowist house.  You should submit a story to FHB, Inspired Home, and Dwell when the house is done.  What kinds of things have you done to allow such a narrow design?

 

 

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by Cole22 in reply to Anonymous [original] on Tue, 10/18/2005 - 02:15

Wow that is tiny.

I have seen 10'-12'.

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by Isamemon in reply to Anonymous [original] on Thu, 10/20/2005 - 01:04

yikes


think of stairs, there goes 3 feet minimum


would love to see the final design as we are a design build, and that would be an interesting one

Trick question?   answer (post #175919, reply #4 of 6)

by Clewless1 in reply to renman [original] on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 18:00

Trick question?   answer 8'-6"?

There ain't NO free lunch. Not no how, not no where!

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by DanH in reply to renman [original] on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 18:18

I think Ive seen pictures of reasonably liveable houses about 4' wide, though I doubt you could do that and meet codes.


We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. --Thomas Edison

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by bldr72753 in reply to renman [original] on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 12:22

Don't laugh but consider building a shipping container house but  finishing the exterior. Go to google and type Container Home. I converted a 40 x 8 container to a construction field office and it was very nice. If your a skilled person it would work. You could cantilever the 2nd floor past the first floor. Don't knock it till you look.