Tiny & Small Spaces …at not so small prices!

About two weeks ago I heard on the radio about a very small apartment in Rome, Italy that can be yours for $68,000 USD. It’s located in one of the most expensive cities in the world. But it’s not very small, in fact it’s tiny! For $68,000 USD, you get a 55 square-foot pad (or closet), which consists of a ground level bathroom with a tiny shower, sink & lavatory. There is a small platform above with just barely enough room for a tiny compact-size bed, accessed to/from by a ladder. There is only one window in the apartment. To open the window, you have to climb up the ladder then crawl over the bed to get to the window. I’m pretty sure that some idiot will cough up the money for this closet!

Earlier this year, there was a small house that went on the market. A very, very small house!

In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, there is a bungalow house, a livable house that sits on a small piece of property: less than 850 square feet of land. The bungalow is a 1-bedroom, 1-bath home. The house exterior dimensions are just 7’-3” x 47’-0”. The interior has a whopping 310 square feet of livable space (a bit more manageable than the Rome apartment). The whole house consists of 5 rooms:

* Living Room

* Kitchen

* Bedroom/Den

* Bathroom

* Basement

Inside the house, there is ample headroom with the floor-to-ceiling height of 7’-9”. 

The bungalow house was built in 1912 (the same year that the cruise ship, the Titanic, sanked). History has it that a driveway was designated in a narrow strip of land between two regular-sized homes. But since the city of Toronto never built a curb to access the driveway, the owner of one house decided to make use of the small open space. The bungalow was constructed over a piece of land that was designated for a driveway. City officials never objected and the bungalow stayed.

In March of 2010, the bungalow house was put up for sale by its current owner. The asking price was $179,000 Canadian Dollars. This bungalow home is ideal for someone who has no more valuable belongings than a homeless person!