[GBlist] small houses

["Alan Abrams" <awabrams@starpower.net>]

Don't let realtors and bankers bully you into this kind
of thinking.  Boy--makes me sizzle!  I have made more
money faster, and at higher rates of profit building
small houses (as small as 600 sf) than doing
conventional sized houses.  These houses hold their
value at resale, too.

Compare notes with Witold Rybczinski's essay on "Grow
Homes" (was it in "Looking Around?"--loaned my copy to
my brother and never saw it again) --14' wide, two
story--the upstairs is unfinished intentionally.  the
demonstration project sold like hotcakes

http://www.sheridanc.on.ca/~randy/design.dir/house.dir/
witold.htm

Alan Abrams, AIBD

> <excerpt>=A0 Also, we fall prey to the dictum that
for a house to be
> marketable it must have certain features, namely
formal living rooms
> and dining rooms, rooms that are rarely if ever used
but occupy a
> large amount of space and decorating dollars.=A0 I
have heard this over
> and over again.=A0 In the past, I have accepted it
and allowed it to
> shape my choices in housing.=A0=20
>



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