20 feet
16 feet
20 feet
12.5 feet
Find a room big enough and stretch the string out, making a rectangle with a door-sized opening at one side.
Measure a bed, a dresser, a table, a stove. Mark the furnitures’ dimensions on butcher paper and arrange it inside your string rectangle.
What do you have?
A furnished soddy! Imagine a family living together in this small space.
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Interesting to imagine. And to think of all we feel we must have now.
Yes! It’s quite a shift, isn’t it?
WOW. And so many people today feel cramped in 2,000 square feet.
Wow. Makes you realize what we have, huh?
I know! When I was researching for this book, I often thought of trying to spend the day in one room of my house, just to see if I could get a small taste of living this way. I never got around to it, but I’ve thought often of what tight living that must have been.
Imagine feeling like you needed some private space, if only for a minute. Where could you get it? Outside, I suppose.
Wow! That sounds like a tight fit.
What a simple yet elegant way to get that across. Wow!
My first apartment wasn’t much bigger and I couldn’t stand to spend too much time in it! Of course, I wasn’t married then, so it was just me. I couldn’t imagine four people in that tiny space.
What a great exercise for the kids to do! Would make them realize that they need less than they think!
This would be a super fun thing to do with my kids over Christmas break. They love to play “poor people” and this would make it all more real. LOL!
Amy, take a picture if they do!