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Anon describes their dream home (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

small bungalow

proceeds to list a 5 rooms house

EDIT: ok, apparently i do not know what a bungalow is. Their size ranges from less than 70 square meters up to 130, my mental image was of a large wooden tent of ~40 square meters

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Just a small bungalow with its own private gym.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If you've got two bedrooms and only need one then having a gym in the other one isn't a luxury. Hell, it's less of a luxury than using it as a spare bedroom that is useless except for storage and getting visitors a few times a year.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do bungalows typically have basements?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Regionally dependent, typically based on the weather, terrain, and how populated the area is. In cold places with more than 16 feet to bedrock, you will typically have basements because they're cheaper to heat in the winter and cool in the summer. If the bedrock or the water table is close to the surface, basements are too expensive or impossible. If there is lots of space around you and it isn't too cold, you won't have basements because they cost more per square foot than building on the surface. If you're densely populated (and don't have the exclusion conditions listed above), you will likely have a basements because it costs less to have a second floor (above or below) than it does to buy more land.

    In short, bungalows have basements where it's more cost-effective than having a bigger bungalow.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Which is a small bungalow...

    Ours is 850 sq ft and we've got 3 bedrooms, so if we removed one we would be at 750 sq ft and rearrange the divisions and it could be smaller.

    Post war housing built by the Canadian government was 600 to 800 sq ft bungalows with two or three bedrooms, 70s bungalows around here are 850 to 1150 sq ft with three or four bedrooms...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    My first house was an 800 sq ft cottage - smaller than most apartments. The bedrooms could only fit a Full bed, not a Queen. It had the same number of rooms OP listed and was the perfect size for me. I'm not familiar with a "bungalow" but that's what I'm imagining.

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