I find narrow homes cozy. They remind me of my first apartment, so there’s a nostalgia factor.

I’d love a charming old row house. I still remember the poster Kevin’s house (in Philly, iirc)…. wish he’d check in and show us his current house!

When I saw this photo, I also thought it looked so cozy....!

it's cute but tiny! that couch is stuffed all the way into the corner-- no room for a side table. which also means shoes would be piled up right there at the foot of the chaise. or you would have to ask everybody to go to the back door. I wouldn't love that.

I'm sure a certain "pro" would yell about how high the TV is mounted, IMO.

It isn't cozy to me at all-- it can't be more than 6 ft wide. I can appreciate a small, cozy room but there's a point where i just get twitchy. I could be wrong but I believe Kevin's row home had much more width.

It did, definitely. I was just dreaming of a row house like his, I miss seeing it. :)

It's nine feet. It's not particularly common. The upstairs is probably 12, it has an unusually wide privy passage. But it's a rather deep house. Kevin's house is probably 12, no privy passage, but shallower. The houses directly behind me are about 12x14 or so. Three rooms stacked. One of the houses behind me was home to 10 people in one census. Now the max is 2 people and if they have a baby they move.

This is the entire footprint of one of the houses behind me. It has a front and back door which is rare, and the person taking the picture may actually be standing outside the front door on the stoop, if not just crammed against it.

Ohhh, those floors!

The bar height table in the second one would drive me crazy, other than that it looks very liveable.

It's the stairs that would prevent me from living in a house like this. The ones in a house with a privy passage, if they are on that side of the house, can be particularly treacherous.

These are not the stairs in either of the houses shown, but they are the stairs in a house which widens on the second floor over a privy passage: The top of the passage is under that white boxed area. The stairs then continue to the second floor (just those few steps at the bottom) and then up to the third floor. (The steps at the top of the picture).

This would be me on those stairs:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cdm4HUov_re/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

(Hopefully link works.)

If it doesn’t:

Just like living in the dorm. Does anyone use the second floor as a living space, and the first floor for kitchen and dining?

Look at the little dog standing on the stoop!

Sometimes the entire first floor is kitchen, the entire second floor is bedroom and bath, and the entire third floor is the living room

Those stairs over the privy passage are the descendants of stairs leading to the cupola of an Italian Renaissance church — although missing dozens of other sightseers going to and from the dome (all proceeding faster than you feel is safe).

That is not a cozy room. It is a small soulless space.

Pal, I have a friend who lived in townhouse with the same floor plan. I spent the night and I swore I'd never go back unless she moved. She did.

It's not the size of the room but the way it's decorated which makes it look cold and depressing.

I know privy can be a toilet or or something private, but WTH is a privy passage? ⚜ Never mind, it was easy to figure out. lol

I am not really paying attention to how these rooms are decorated, I think the first one might be staged, unless they literally have no possessions. I am just showing how "small" some people in this city live, and have lived for 200 years (because that's about how old these houses are).

The passage, as I understand it, is not so much to let people in and out (although there are passages like this that lead to whole courts of houses) but if it leads to a couple of enclosed yards, it allows the people who clean the privies access without have to carry the contents through the house.