Japanese Space-Saver Home.

Posted by gail in Architecture on March 19, 2007 at 12:08 pm


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Via Tokyo Times. We used to call  the single-story American version of this a shotgun house because you "could fire a shotgun through the front door and the pellets would fly cleanly through the house and out the back door." (See Wikipedia article)


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3 comments to "Japanese Space-Saver Home."

  1. Jeff
    March 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    My brother lived in a house like this in LA. It was a narrow, triangle-shaped thing that had been crammed onto the last piece of land on the block. We called it the "cheese-wedge house."

  2. chris
    March 19th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    in the south its called a 'shotgun shack'

  3. PJ
    May 7th, 2007 at 11:32 pm

    In LA we call it sliving


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