People Are Intrigued: How Could Anyone Live in This ‘Skinny House’?

You’ve heard of tiny homes, but have you heard of a “skinny” house?

Yes, you read that right, “skinny house.” And no, this has nothing to do with diets or eating healthy.

This peculiar “skinny” home, located at 970 Chestnut St. in Deerfield, Illinois, has gained the attention of the internet. A video of the house shared on TikTok has everyone baffled.

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From this angle, the house looks impossibly narrow. ‘How could anyone live here?’ people are asking.

However, in truth, the house is not just one long line.

The house is actually larger than it appears, totaling 1600 square feet of living space.

On one end of the house, everything looks completely normal. On the opposite, narrowest end the house is only three feet wide!

Thankfully, it culminates in a bathroom, with a lovely bathroom sink and mirror placed against the final wall. So it doesn’t feel awkwardly small.

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In Deerfield, it’s known as the “pie house,” because its shape is more like that of a piece of pie (yum!).

It contains two bedrooms and three bathrooms (2 full, 1 half), and a finished basement.

If you’re interested in purchasing the house, unfortunately, you’re too late. It was purchased on August 5th, 2020, and is currently valued at $261,429.

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When you take a look from the inside, it really doesn’t look that unconventional.

So long as the owners are happy, it shouldn’t matter what the rest of the world thinks. Just because something is different, doesn’t make it bad!

Would you purchase a “skinny” house like this one? Let us know in the comments.

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A Man Built a Tiny Bookstore on Wheels to Deliver Books to Villages Without Bookstores

Books remain a very popular pastime, even in the age of social media. Unfortunately, with the advent of e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle, physical book stores are going out of business. But people remain passionate about the power of idly browsing through shelves of books.

That’s what motivated Jean-Jacques Megel-Nuber to create a tiny bookstore on wheels. Jean-Jacques of Alsace, France hired a tiny home maker to create the portable library in 2015. He calls it Au Vrai Chic Littérère.

Jean-Jacques drives the bookstore all around Alsace, bringing the magic of books to small villages in the area. He often shows up at festivals, events, or other public places where he’s been invited. His goal is to make books more accessible and affordable.

The cozy design of the bookstore was intended to make folks curious enough to go inside, Jean-Jacques says.

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“I wanted a little feeling of a cabin and an aura of a small bookstore, which both evoke a lot of dreaming,” Jean-Jacques told Architectural Digest.

He added to Fortune that he needed “a place that makes people want to enter.”

That tiny space houses around 3000 books. In addition to the bookshelves, the structure contains a small place for Jean-Jacques to sleep while he travels. As you can imagine, it can get tricky to tow the bookstore — it’s a very heavy and delicate load! All those books weigh about 1,300 pounds.

But we’d guess that it’s totally worth the trouble, if only to see the reactions on people’s faces when they get to crawl inside this dreamy bookstore.

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