Website owner: James Miller
The modern three or four bedroom house with 2000 square feet of living space is a real 20th century luxury. And like most luxuries it brings with it a real burden --- a burden of high mortgage (or rent) payments and high utility bills. How big a house does one really need? How much floor space does one really need? How much floor space do the smallest house trailers have? How much floor space did the log cabins of bygone years have? How about the one-room huts of people living in third world countries? Do they perhaps have about a tenth as much living space as our modern 2000 square foot house? What would be the cheapest way to build a house with 300 to 400 square feet of living space? How much would it cost to build a super-insulated house measuring 16 feet by 24 feet using standard construction with exterior plywood for the exterior and drywall for the interior? How long would it take to build a house like this? How would it be to live in such a house? May 1984
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