What is the smallest residence you have resided in (for a length of time)?

[uppityperson]

Poll question: What is the smallest residence you have resided in (for a length of time)?

What is the smallest residence you have lived in? I don't mean what size tent you camp in, unless you have lived in a tent for an extended period of time.

I spent a couple years in a 8X18 ft travel trailer (144 sq ft), and a few in a 10X12 ft cabin (120 sq ft). Smallest full house, meaning with bathing room and cooking facilities, was 20X20 ft (400 sq ft). How about you?

[Sparkly]

1. Do dorm rooms count? nt

[uppityperson]

2. oooo, tough one. I want to say no, because then you would have to

take into consideration the hall, bathroom, etc, and dorm rooms are usually temporary, but that would apply to apartments too. Decisions, decisions. Let me say no, unless you have lived in 1 for over 6 yrs (pulling # out of the air). No. But if you want to include that, if that has been your residence since leaving parental home, count it and post about it. Thanks.

[Sparkly]

12. I had to go "under 200 sq ft" anyway.... First apt in NYC.

(First I had to get Husb to show me about what that looks like.)

My first apartment in New York, when I took a "break" from college to dance there, was a TINY place in the West Village. Room for a cot, a dresser, an 'alcove' they probaby counted as a 'room' where I fit a teeny frig with a hot plate on top, and a bathroom with tub (had to wash dishes in the tub!).

All the water ran brown -- I mean BROWN -- and everytime it rained, the fuses blew out.

It was horrible!!!

[librechik]

3. I lived in a tipi for 18 months

it was a twelve footer--similar to a dorm room except more fresh air

[Atman]

13. You don't live in Washington State by chance?

Julie...is that you?!

(LOL! I must hang in hippie circles. I own a yurt, one of my old h.s. friends has a tipi in Washington. Freakin' weirdos!)

[Radio_Lady]

14. Um, what's a tipi? Is that a teepee (Native American or canvas)?

I just didn't want to miss anything.

Here's a pretty one -- right into the DU Lounge you go!

[uppityperson]

17. yes, just a different spelling.

[JuniperLea]

4. The first house I bought was 802 square feet

Two small bedrooms... a Spanish stucco affair built in 1928. It was so cute... a lot of arched doorways... so much character. I loved it. Before that I rented much bigger places... before that I lived in my parents' much bigger home.

[NMDemDist2]

6. my first was 902sf

sweet little post war California bungelow

[JuniperLea]

19. I love those!

My Dad had one that was just over 1000 feet, restored to mint... so sweet.

[NMDemDist2]

5. i had a one bedroom apt once that was less than 200 SF

you literally had to crawl into the double bed from the door and nothing else fit in the room

I had another garage apt with one bedroom and you literally couldn't twirl with your arms extended with out hitting the walls. I could reach across the entire kitchen and place my hands on both walls flat

and I lived in a 10x12 tent in Denali for 5 months, but plumbing wasn't included

[uppityperson]

10. My 1st apt was like that too, shared with a friend

fold out couch filled up living room, table/2 chairs filled up kitchen, bath in hall. Moved to bigger apt when friend got involved with someone so we could have room for me to be home and them having sex not under my nose.

[Warpy]

7. Does my summer in an Econoline van count?

Then there was a period I lived in a 10x16 room in a rooming house in Boston while I was apartment hunting. That was OK except for the fights in the hall, the broken front door and the blood all over the walls.

Poverty sucks. Poverty is a WMD.

[Atman]

8. I have a yurt now which is bigger than my first apartment.

My yurt is over 300sf. My first studio apt. featured a bathroom and a "living space" with a kitchen-ish type space...couldn't have been more than 200 sf. But it was on the beach in Florida, so I didn't care.

[lyonn]

28. A Yurt! How fun

My daughter has promised me my own yurt at her place when I come to visit. Saw them on the internet and they are cute.

[Radio_Lady]

9. 200 sq. feet was about the size of my two bedded room with a roommate...

during a hospital stay in 1960.

[rubberducky]

11. 500 sq. ft. rental home!!

4 years. Of course that was back in the day! Didn`t own the amount of stuff I have today! Now 4 bedroom home barely contains all the "stuff"! But, best times of my life were in that little house. Funny how it worked out that way.:)

[skids]

15. I once subletted my livingroom closet to a gay guy.

And no, he never heard the end of the "in-the-closet" jokes. :-)

[mcscajun]

16. I spent a few months in a rooming house when I was first married.

The first room had no kitchen facilities, and shared bathoom. The second room we moved into had a self-contained kitchen, but we still shared the bathroom with the other roomers.

I'm in a pretty small house now; it's about 900 sq. ft. Hardly enough room to swing a cat. :bounce:

[rogerashton]

18. 200-500

but I was thinking of the whole house -- I definitely have lived in dorm rooms smaller than that for a couple of years.

The small house was a dog-trot shack -- 2 cabins (about 15 on a side) with a breezeway in between. My Dad was something of a self-sufficiency nut, figured that he could live the way his pioneer ancestors did. Mother was not so sure ....

By the way, why was this locked and shifted? probly the lounge is more appropriate, but this is a pain in the neck.

[Joe Fields]

20. I lived in a Datsun B210 for three months, once.

[idgiehkt]

23. I bet you win, then.

I rented a room in a friend's house that was just essentially a hallway between two rooms with a sheet hung up in the doorway. I liked it. I like small places. But a Datsun is a little too tight for me.

[Crabby Appleton]

21. What - no one in a 6 by 9 cell !

[Nay]

22. when our baby was first born, we lived in a school bus converted

to a camper. Baby slept in a pulled-out dresser drawer padded with towels.

I grew up with parents and brother in an 850 SF home in Fla. Wish I still had the place.

[greendog]

24. I did the truck & tent thing for six months...

truck:

tent:


...and I spent a summer in this little trailer (kitchen & bathroom in another building)


...and I spent a Montana winter in this little cabin (300 sq ft)


...but the smallest place I ever lived was the cab of an 18 wheeler (4 years)

Now I live in a converted horse shed (400 sq ft) :)

[Jackpine Radical]

25. How 'bout 2 ponchos with the hoods tied shut

stretched over a foxhole? But only when it rained. Otherwise just the foxhole. And a different foxhole every night sometimes. Then for about 3 weeks we got a veritable Hilton accommodation: a sandbag bunker about 6x8 feet.

[acmejack]

26. This was a crowded one, eighteen people in here.

The room was only about 200 square feet. Sailors back then were allowed less cubic feet per man than federal prisoners. That's room for twelve that you're looking at, sleeping and storing all your stuff.

[msongs]

27. a sears garden shed in hawaii - wood pallet floor, hanging bulb, PLUS

a bar fridge. and the cost, only $100 at the time, now worth about $350 probably.

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