How are they stuffing 4 bedrooms in that?
Posted by solidThinker@reddit | Dallas | View on Reddit | 55 comments
How are they stuffing 4 beds 2.5 bath in into 1270 sq ft? That's the size of an apartment. The math isn't matching.
Joy_Sediment@reddit
What do the other 24 photos show?
TacosNGuns@reddit
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2404-Garden-Dr-Dallas-TX-75215/26696380_zpid/
It’s just a house without an entryway, formal living room or study. The hall is a short sub. Basically a box with all box shaped rooms and no extraneous wasted spaces. Reminds me of the little post WW2 houses around Lovefield & Bachmann.
noncongruent@reddit
I remember one of my parents talking about "shotgun shacks" when I was a kid, they were tiny homes where you could see the back door from the front door, straight through the house. If you fired a shotgun into the front door opening the pellets would go through the rear door opening without hitting anything in between.
EmotionalSupportDoll@reddit
The Shotgun design always reminds me of New Orleans
TacosNGuns@reddit
They are all over the south. New Orleans definitely saved more of theirs. Likely built more of them as well.
Houston has an arts charity that save 22 of them https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-HN97
IntotheBroadwayWoods@reddit
This is the sort of house I want.
arlenroy@reddit
You can get kits for shipping containers, that will basically turn 2 to 4 shipping containers into a home very similar. I was looking at that and Barnominiums, before I bought my condominium. If I had more free time I was going to go the shipping container route, but alas I'm hurdling towards middle-age, and after cranking out 25 years in my selected trade I can actually say I have more money than time. Only took a quarter century, 3 herniated disc's in my back, early onset arthritis in my hands, and some wicked varicose veins in my legs from being on my feet for 12 hours plus a day. Still wish I went the Barnominium route, but the drive to work would be brutal because the closest patch of land would be an hour and half drive.
IntotheBroadwayWoods@reddit
First I have ever heard of a barnominium!
reserved_seating@reddit
4 bedrooms
mahsimplemind@reddit
This comment made me chuckle. The listing even includes the floor plan: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2404-Garden-Dr-Dallas-TX-75215/26696380_zpid/
mahsimplemind@reddit
This comment made me chuckle. The listing even includes the blueprint: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2404-Garden-Dr-Dallas-TX-75215/26696380_zpid/
TheRealBadGate@reddit
right lol
blachat@reddit
As a transplant from Seattle, these kinds of houses have become the new "entry level" there where they put 1 or even 2 bedrooms in the space where a garage should go and somehow squeeze in 3-4 bedrooms.
In Seattle most homes built before the 60s were around 1000 sq ft with a garage that wasn't counted as living space. Then the flippers came and said "we don't need a garage here" and thus became this new standard of walling off where there would be a garage for bedrooms.
I hate every bit of it, it's part of why I moved here.
solidThinker@reddit (OP)
Is not new. This is the handiwork of flippers. They buy an old house, turn it into these little monstrosities, then pin it as "New construction" because of all the changes they made.
YaGetSkeeted0n@reddit
The lot had been vacant for a decade:
https://www.dallascad.org/AcctHistory.aspx?ID=00000207820000000
blachat@reddit
Lol didn't even bother to look at the listing but yep this is the same shit they're doing in Seattle
MidnightGloomy7016@reddit
Small house is where it's at for some people. Less shit to put in it, smaller roof to fix, lower tax bill (I would hope). Take away one room and bathroom for a garage and I'd be set.
Mcmansions are losing their luster for smaller families and single people. Screw all that. I just want a relaxing place to come home to, not a neverending list of STDs (shit to do).
IntotheBroadwayWoods@reddit
This exactly! I would love just a small less than 1000 ft cottage. It would still feel huge to me.
adjust_your_set@reddit
Wow, only 1,270 and 4 bedrooms. Those are going to be tiny tiny rooms.
NYerInTex@reddit
I mean, people used to have families of 5 or 6 in 1000-1200 sf homes as the rule of thumb.
God this consumption world is eating us alive
IntotheBroadwayWoods@reddit
My parents have a little over 1400. We had 9 people living there.
TacosNGuns@reddit
Linked to the Zillow above see for yourself.
krollAY@reddit
This bedroom had a sink and a bathtub, this bedroom has a bunch of cabinets and a stove.
chezyt@reddit
There’s a Hedberg for everything.
Saamari@reddit
The floor plan is unreadable but looks like the bedrooms are 10x10 pretty small
not-actual69_@reddit
10x10 room is perfectly adequate for a bedroom…
Saamari@reddit
It is not, but ok
not-actual69_@reddit
Not the best rage bait.
If for some reason this is real, get some perspective. I grew up in a 1500 sq ft home 3/2 with 2 siblings and parents and i felt perfectly fine. If you’re cramped in a 400 square foot room, idk what to tell you.
Saamari@reddit
That’s great for you I’m happy that you had a wonderful childhood with plenty of space. Happy for you
Upper-Conclusion-274@reddit
I grew up in a 10 x 10 and it’s was pretty cramped as I got older and needed a larger bed and desk.
not-actual69_@reddit
Op, your post history is a wild ride. I hope your future wife will enjoy the house and flaccidity.
EmotionalSupportDoll@reddit
The H in his username was a typo, maybe
TheRealBadGate@reddit
thank you so much for sending me on that ride. nigerian women out there, stay strong
BabyBearMan@reddit
You can sleep in the living room. Boom! 5 bedrooms!
BeKindNotWeak@reddit
Predatory builders
56mustang@reddit
No kidding! My apt is less than 1400 sq ft and is a 2bed/2 bath. I cant imagine how you would get 4 beds. My bedroom are so small there is only room for one night stand.
Joy_Sediment@reddit
Bunk beds! 🤣
roarhergemher@reddit
That sounds like a really inefficient design.
PanzerZeke@reddit
They converted the garage. My house is similar in size but is a 3bed2bath with a 2 car garage. You can tell by the fact that the driveway goes where to the garage used to be.
solidThinker@reddit (OP)
Looks like a single car garage, which should be about an added 240 sqft.
So ~1500sqft for 4 beds 2.5 bath.... Still tight, but I guess someone will live there.
hunnyflash@reddit
I'm renting a house that's about 1200 sq ft and three bedrooms/2 bath, plus they halved the garage into a 4th bedroom. Just depends on how good the layout is really.
Someone else was pretty spot on the calculations. The bedrooms are mostly about 9x9, and then the Master bedroom is much larger. I use two of the smaller bedrooms for my bedroom and office, and my husband uses the master for our Queen bed, and his office. We use the converted room just for storage. Every room has a pretty large closet too which is nice.
We don't have kids, so we're just two people and a dog. It's much more space than we need really.
evoIX15@reddit
Isn’t a “bedroom” a room with a closet? Can’t imagine how choppy that place is to have 4 of them.
sixstringronin@reddit
Years ago my mom and dad were looking to move houses. They found one in the city, good neighborhood with 7 bedrooms. We thought it must have been palace too have that many bedrooms. Turns out it was a 3 bedroom house that the man partitioned into 7...
.. it was terrible.
VIOLENT_WIENER_STORM@reddit
“These stalls are nice.” -a horse
TacosNGuns@reddit
I grew up in a three bedroom 1.5 in the early 70’s that was a 100 sqft smaller. When we moved the a 2000sqft ranch, I thought it was a mansion 🤷♂️
doubtfurious@reddit
"I bought a house, it's a two bedroom house, but I think it's up to me to decide how many bedrooms there are. This bedroom has an oven in it. This bedroom has a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom is over in that other guy's house."
Mitch Hedberg
Careless-Resource-72@reddit
A bedroom can be 10x10 so 4 would take up 400 sq ft. Double the size of the master and you still have 770 sq ft for the rest of the house. Not terribly spacious but you can raise a family in it.
mijo_sq@reddit
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2404-Garden-Dr-Dallas-TX-75215/26696380_zpid/?
It's a deep house.
namezam@reddit
Heh. I am currently in a ~1300 sqft 4bdrm house. Master is 13x11, there’s a 9x9, a 9x10, and a converted garage to room + bathroom that’s whatever that would be single car. Living room right in the front door is where it differs from a lot of houses. It’s like 9x15 and covers the width of the half height wall to the kitchen and a ~3.5’ overlap with the dining room which creates an offset to walk between the 3. One original tiny bathroom between the rooms, then the add on in the converted garage.
Mom had the big room, I had the master, brother in the small one, sister in the other. Chaos, outside, but we all had our own little space.
Gurlie_J_Girl@reddit
Well, the listing you found, has images, even a floorplan.
So the math isn't matching on this post.
masajmarod@reddit
I guess if there was a garage it’s now a bedroom.
Sbeast86@reddit
My home is 1300sqft and 3 bedroom with an absolutely monstrous living room that could be split in half really
honeybakedpipi@reddit
No dining. No garage. The floor plan is on the listing…
solidThinker@reddit (OP)
This is the link: https://redf.in/Kd7lIP The pictures don't look that bad. Pocket dimension?
Donut1984@reddit
super efficient layout