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December 19th, 2007

Little house not on the prairie…

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough

tiny-extra-100.jpgBlog Guy, I’m an elf who is looking for a very small place to live during the off-season, when I’m not with Santa. Any ideas?

Sure. Turns out there is a teeny-weeny place for sale that might be just what you need. Our small house specialist, five-foot-tall Claire Sibonney, checked it out and pronounced it “adorable.”

It has a kitchen - located sort of in a hallway - and a bedroom that is seven feet wide, where you sleep on a Murphy bed, which by coincidence is also seven feet wide. Claire says the “impossibly narrow” bathroom has a door that looks as though it was cut in half.

Plus, if you’re worried about furnishing it, follow this slideshow to an array of other small stuff suitable for tiny house use, and click here for Claire’s full report:

tiny-360.jpgThe littlest house in Toronto, a 300-square-foot home squeezed into what was once intended to be a parking space, is shown for sale in Toronto, December 18, 2007. Built in 1912, it was bought and renovated this year, and is back on the market for $172,000. REUTERS/Mike Cassese

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11 comments so far

Only $173,000? Holy Toledo!

(Or have I been living in Calgary for too long?)

- Posted by Charlene

Looks like that house could actually be flipped.

- Posted by John C Abell

Obviously, this house was not breast fed.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Home is where the
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is.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Build it small and only a few will come.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

First base is the fire hydrant. Second is the Murphy’s car’s front license plate. Third is the Kelly’s house and home plate is this Yugo.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Dear Mr. DeVito…

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Is it a house or a gyrocopter hangar?

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Q. How many Torontonians does it take to build a house?

A. Idiot! Why couldn’t you just hire someone from Calgary to build it?

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Hmmm. $174K. I have a stapler, seven cardboard boxes and four and a half rolls of duct tape. So long, suckers! I’m off to Toronto to earn my fortune.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

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- Posted by I have a home, but there’s a hitch… - Oddly Enough

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