{"id":3779,"date":"2015-03-19T09:36:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livinghouse.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2015-03-19T09:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:36:37","slug":"how-small-is-too-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livinghouse.co.uk\/blog\/how-small-is-too-small\/","title":{"rendered":"How small is too small?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like it or not, visionaries are cashing-in on the housing shortfall by utilising gaps in the property market to bring us small, narrow and unsatisfactory homes.<\/p>\n

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As the trend for converting non-conventional spaces into homes continues, are we really equipped to live in these confined spaces? Or has modern-day living given us a taste for space that we\u2019re unwilling to compromise on when looking for a new home?<\/p>\n

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Slim pickings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who can forget the ultra-slim house featured on Channel 4\u2019s The British Property Boom last year? Measuring just 6ft 11 inches (2.1m) wide, the very narrow house in the London borough of Haringey somehow squeezes in two bedrooms, a bathroom, reception room, kitchen and wait for it…a roof terrace. Well, a small balcony really.<\/p>\n

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Haringey house from ‘The British Property Boom’<\/p><\/div>\n

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Seeing is believing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly it garnered lots of media attention and interest from the disbelieving public, but funnily enough potential buyers were not eager to get a foot in the front door. Probably because this house is nothing more than an elongated corridor that just about manages to pack in the essentials required for modern-day living.<\/p>\n

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As far as we know the house is still on the market, but any interested purchasers will have to be creative with interior design and not partial to swinging cats in order to live in such a unique space.<\/p>\n

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Take a look at the BBC\u2019s video<\/a> for a guided tour of this, um, scary example of the extreme housing available in today\u2019s property market.<\/p>\n

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Nothing to see here<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlike the Haringey property, a 301sqft flat in Mayfair was snapped up in just 40 minutes without even being viewed. Offering a similar petite layout to the narrow house, the flat\u2019s letting agent received over 200 email and telephone enquiries within the first 15 minutes of the property being available for rent.<\/p>\n

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Featuring only one bedroom, a kitchen-cum-dining-cum-lounge and no roof terrace, the Mayfair flat on Pollen Street was secured with a \u00a310,000 deposit by the manager of a nearby five star hotel.<\/p>\n\n\t\t