“WE SIT IN the “cafe area” of Steve Sauer’s minuscule apartment enjoying the view from the home’s only window, street level. Dogs on leashes and legs on humans pass by on a warm Lower Queen Anne evening.
Sauer stands up. This is to demonstrate that at 6-foot-2 he has a no-more-than-needed 2-inch clearance between his head and the ceiling.
Sauer likes this precision. Awkward spaces, wasted places annoy him. Two alarm clocks, two music sources, extra furniture. Needless, needless, needless.
“What I really wanted was one place with exactly what I needed and wanted. Quality is more important than quantity for me, and extra space only a problem,” he has written, describing his nearby too-big-for-him, one-bedroom condo.
To me he says, “I tend to like things in their place.”
And that explains it: The uber-cool, fully functional 182-square-foot home for two on the basement floor of a 102-year-old apartment building that Sauer is finishing after seven years of work. It could also have something to do with his line of work — airplane interiors engineering for Boeing. And education — a master’s degree in whole-systems design.
Sauer’s tiny Seattle home is remarkable.”
Read more at The Seattle Times (Thanks Christopher C)
Cool! All students will want that too .. and loads of other people who are not into large houses (lots of cleaning to do there …)
Although he probably does not have much sex in his bed … or will have different moves in there while performing .. I for sure would have needed more space between me and the ceiling ..
he’s right about space-saving techniques in boats. also in campers.
Good unless you want to have a taller friend over
This is definitely a copy from Seinfeld where Kramer was going to design his apartment with different levels like this.
noticing the bed in the top right, and more importantly the structure and framework below it….. I don’t think that bed would survive “recreational activities”. Or maybe thats just me…
Alright, its crass and obvious, but valid nonetheless – you’ve got no chance of concealing a fart in that place, and that bloke looks 30ish -nearly all 30ish men have two things in common-Pink Floyd, and gass-go to an Ale festival if you doubt me.
I could live there if it had a turret on it.
I’d love to live in a place like that, it’s amazing.