I'd just install a fireman's pole.
That book? It’s around here somewhere… let me just take a step back so I can scan the AAAAHHHHHHHHHH *thunk* *thunk* *thunk*
This house is “internationally recognised for its unique character,” says the listing. And by “unique,” they mean that there’s only one way I could lie down in it after I fell down the stairs and hit my head and fainted, because the kitchen is 5′ 6″ wide and I’m taller than that. But if you’re an average-sized woman, go ahead and pass out in any direction you like!
Via Google Sightseeing, which links to an illuminating street view here. Slightly more information here (warning! PDF file).
Loveliest comment, by Kate: Does my house make me look fat?
At least they found room for the bidet.
Sorry, this falls into the category “Pretty freakin’ awesome”. Although I would fashion a railing for their stairs.
My thoughts exactly. Very interesting stare case.
“Giant built-in bed” on the top floor. That caught my eye. The idea of anything giant (except up and down) in that house is pretty surprising.
Perhaps the top floor IS the built-in bed.
I grew up around here.
The house is 10 minutes walk from Shepherd’s Bush Green and all its transport links to Central London, 10 minutes walk from the Westfield and West 12 Shopping Centres, the Bush Theatre, the Shepherd’s Bush Empire and all the pubs and clubs – on Sundays the Aussies and Kiwis have a fancy dress party drinking session AND there are some decent schools in the area as well.
Minus – you’d be living in binge drinking party central pretty much every night and the house is situated between two derelict shops.
Niiiiiiiiiiiice.
The vacant shops don’t seem too bad – most shop units seem to be rented out fairly quickly. It seems good to me – you’ve got a pub less than a hundred yards away, no need for a taxi. There are two takeaways that can deliver in less than a minute along with a wine shop. If you get any wine or sauce stains on your best suit, there’s a dry cleaners right next door. Perfect!
Sure, stumble home from the pub … and then through the hole in the floor … or off the side of stairs… Perfect indeed!
I don’t think drunk walking is any safer than drunk driving. This is really off the topic. Just saying.
I LOVE IT! Love that bed, although climbing in and out with an injury would get old pretty quickly.
The perfect home for the hard-drinking, labyrinthitis woman like me.
Does my house make me look fat?
WIN!
LOL
I would LOVE to live in a house like that! Even the kitchen seems pretty awesome, despite its narrowness. Was it my eyes playing tricks on me, or is there a floor-to-ceiling mirror directly in front of the toilet and bidet, just in case you need visual confirmation of ablutionary success?
In four photos I spotted roughly twelve different way for my clutzy self to perish. The house of Traumatic Brain Injury is mostly likely what this place would be, for me.
It’s quite lovely, but dead sober I’d be a danger to myself in there. This is a home for the very sure-footed among us, and that in no way describes me.
Is Kate Moss relocating?
The awesomeness of the back of that stairwell totally distracted me from the gaping hole in the floor directly in front of it. In fact, that’s just the kind of bone-headed mistake I would make in real life, too.
“Oooh, what a cool stairwell! Let me get a little closer for a better loo-AAAAAAGH!” Whump
The link to the pdf isn’t working…
You need to edit out the lovelylisting.com/ bit at the front of the URL
Whoops.
AGGH! That’s disconcerting! Does the concept of “railing” escape them?
I want that house!!!!!!!!
ok, need to win the lotto now XD
Why does it look like the dining room doors are screaming?
Wait, I just noticed the teeny tiny display window in front. So some enterprising Victorian thought this would make a good shop? Maybe they sold corsets.
or maybe they sell rubber bands.. or something else really small
Your link to the “slightly more information here” seems to be munged, but this address yields something:
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Images/06_GoldhawkRoadHouse_tcm21-134681.pdf
“The home of actors, artists and poets in the past, the new
owner will be following in the narrow footsteps of Germanborn
fashion photographer Juergen Teller, the snapper
credited with creating the gritty realism look of the 1990s.”
Never heard of him but it’s still an amazing house.
Thanks — I’ll attempt to fix it…
Wait, wait, wait, there’s a NARROWER house???
you know, that is the first thing i though.. where is there a narrower house. This one is almost narrow enough, but not quite.
Amsterdam has narrower houses including one that’s only as wide as the door:
http://www.studiokoning.nl/Foto_10/Smal.html
(can’t find any info about the property sadly)
Indeed there is.
For example, there’s this fine house in Madre de Deus, Brazil, which is only 1 meter wide at the entrance (just over three feet for the metrically declined).
There’s a dwelling in old city Philadelphia like this. It’s actually an alley that’s been covered over — the interior walls are really the exterior walls of the buildings on either side. It’s been featured in at least one “small living spaces” TV show, can’t remember which one.
Well it says “bohemian” so there you are! I love the firepole idea, and I think it’s a way cool house, esp. the “sunroof” w/ all the greenery overhead, and the apparent greenhouse off of the dining room. Five stories would keep you in shape (unless you installed an elevator), altho the exterior seems to leave a bit to be desired. Overall, I give it a thumbs up. =D
So the stairway is designed so badly and takes up so little room that people could die on it, yet they have this majestic bathroom that’s easily three times larger than it needs to be?
Nice priorities.
If you move into bulimic house, it’ll throw you up onto the street.
But it has a great pic of Chair’s metrosexual cousin!
Is it my monitor, or is that water through a gap in the floor under the staircase?
Design parameters: Brilliantly visionary on one end, brain fart on the other. Interesting dynamics. Btw, did anyone notice Chair’s sleek cousins in the dining room?
I’m queasy just looking at the pictures, makes my toes hurt too…. All I can think is “Giant. Building. Code. Violation….”
In the pictures on the link, the windows appear to be 2 halves poorly photoshopped together. The wood between the window panes abruptly changes height – on both windows. What’s with that?
My thoughts exactly. And if you look at the sidewalk, it also changes along the same line. I have to call fake on the Google Sightseeing photos at the very least. No way is that real.
But the AGA in the kitchen!!! The house price is worth it for that alone!!! [AND it's green.]
WANT.
i think it’s awesome! i’d totally want to buy it if i lived there!
Does this remind anyone else of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”? You know, where #12 Grimmauld Place, is hidden from view?
The Google Streetview image – yes absolutely. It’s even folding a little.
I think it’s pretty neat. But Christmas parties could be a bit awkward…maybe the lack of a railing is so that you can jump over other people to get by them.
This is just simply brilliant use of space! I would adore that house. However, not for that price
Claustrophobia be damned; when do I move in?
I actually think it’s pretty cool. New houses in America are often bigger than they need to be. This is perfect. (Yes, I realize it’s not in America.) Skinny people will love it, and big people might be inspired to diet.
I’m almost positive that I saw this house while I was in London last year. My sister snapped a photo. I’ll have to find it.