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josh_truant
 
location:
MA
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Why was this built?
< on 2/17/2009 6:44 PM >
|  | | | A little while back, a couple friends and I walked by a tiny house that looked abandoned amongst general suburban, occupied houses. The first snowfall was that weekend, so I figured I'd check the place for prints and didn't see any. We went in a couple nights later, and the layout was extremely bizarre: The kitchen was in a basement. There was no bathroom or shower in the main house, but there was a piece that was an obvious extension about the size of a closet with a toilet in it. The house itself was extremely small, with fairly low ceilings. There's a barn in back with a hobo camp set up in the rafters. My best guess is that this was a guest house of a previous larger property and it was split up to be sold separately, but could this architecture indicate any other uses?
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HDCase
  
location:
Catskills
Gender: Male
| | Re: Why was this built?
<Reply # 1 on 2/17/2009 6:59 PM >
| | | | Did the add-on toilet have plumbing, or was it an outhouse? I've visited/lived in (semi) legal squats in the Pacific Northwest that seem similar. If you and some pals decide to set up a working squat you have to work with what you've got. Kitchen in the basement might mean that the gas lines/hot water was down there and it's easier to build close to the source than to run pipe to another floor (especially if the original pipe is broken). Or it might just be some crazy bastard that decided to do the work him/herself and ended up with a weird house.
Get your cut throat off my knife. |
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foxmotorsport
   
location:
Tri-Cities (area) Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Why was this built?
<Reply # 2 on 2/17/2009 7:19 PM >
| | | | Pics?
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It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand.... |
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HDCase
location:
Catskills
Gender: Male
| | Re: Why was this built?
<Reply # 3 on 2/17/2009 7:23 PM >
| | | | lol
Get your cut throat off my knife. |
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IDChris
location:
Southern Idaho Wasteland
Gender: Male
| | Re: Why was this built?
<Reply # 4 on 3/19/2009 8:27 PM >
| | | | I've seen plenty of such small dwellings here in Idaho. Originally, they start out as small 2 room houses built in the early 20th century on big farms. The ones I see have low ceilings, about 6'6", and have bathrooms and maybe kitchens added on. I would say these places are about 300-400 SF.
Maybe these were original bunkhouses for larger farms or people just didn't care for fancy dwellings.
I saw one recently that was torn down (shame on me for forgetting a camera) that had a basement and 2 rooms upstairs. There was no bathroom or kitchen. The architecture places it at maybe 1890 to 1910. It was all beaded-board paneling with knob and tube wiring on the surface.
I'm going to guess it was a bunkhouse if it was about 400 SF or less.
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Lucifer
location:
Hamilton Ontario
| | Re: Why was this built?
<Reply # 5 on 3/22/2009 9:19 AM >
| | | | I know our house always had 2 kitchens as for many Italian homes, we use the basement kitchen over the summer because its too hot to cook upstairs, but yea would love pics then I could confirm or deny lol.
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