I just looked at a local listing a few days ago that was listed as 0 bedrooms and 1 bath but also mentioned an office and spare bedroom in the description…
Turns out there really isn’t an actual bedroom at all… The “main” bed is in the living room where most people would have a couch and it’s wide open to the kitchen.
Then there is a shed out back that has a bed in it and electricity wired to it… This was elaborated on in the description to be either a “spare bedroom, office, she-shed, etc… The possibilities are endless”.
Then there was a stackable washer dryer unit in this rock and dirt basement that looks like some torture chamber where you’d expect to find a body or two buried.
Built in 1909… Tiny lot… Maybe .04 acre at best… $350K
There actually was one relatively normal bathroom though.
Well, let’s give it the best possible chance at being a room. And say that at the top and bottom of those stairs is a door.
The toilet would need to be at least 15" from the wall to the center line, which let’s also say it is exactly.
The smallest a bathroom can be is 15 sq feet. Stairs don’t count, and it’s probably fine, because stairs have to be 36" wide, and landings need to match that. So that passes. Cielings must be at least 80" and because this is actually a fucking stairwell, and ceiling minimums are measured from the nose of the first stair, they will more than pass.
So sadly, this is arguably a 1/2 bath. Honestly I’ve seen smaller.
However this still violates code. Stairway landings need to have clear space at least as long as the stair is wide. And building permanent structures on landings isn’t allowed inside that space.
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Depending on your perspective this can be:
So i imagine when the sale gets posted it wil list all of the above with a ✅ rather then a count.
Multi purpose mezzanine 😂😂
Yea, 1 or 2
Technically more than 1 purpose.
That’s funny…
I just looked at a local listing a few days ago that was listed as 0 bedrooms and 1 bath but also mentioned an office and spare bedroom in the description…
Turns out there really isn’t an actual bedroom at all… The “main” bed is in the living room where most people would have a couch and it’s wide open to the kitchen.
Then there is a shed out back that has a bed in it and electricity wired to it… This was elaborated on in the description to be either a “spare bedroom, office, she-shed, etc… The possibilities are endless”.
Then there was a stackable washer dryer unit in this rock and dirt basement that looks like some torture chamber where you’d expect to find a body or two buried.
Built in 1909… Tiny lot… Maybe .04 acre at best… $350K
There actually was one relatively normal bathroom though.
the whole second floor is a bathroom
Well, let’s give it the best possible chance at being a room. And say that at the top and bottom of those stairs is a door.
The toilet would need to be at least 15" from the wall to the center line, which let’s also say it is exactly.
The smallest a bathroom can be is 15 sq feet. Stairs don’t count, and it’s probably fine, because stairs have to be 36" wide, and landings need to match that. So that passes. Cielings must be at least 80" and because this is actually a fucking stairwell, and ceiling minimums are measured from the nose of the first stair, they will more than pass.
So sadly, this is arguably a 1/2 bath. Honestly I’ve seen smaller.
However this still violates code. Stairway landings need to have clear space at least as long as the stair is wide. And building permanent structures on landings isn’t allowed inside that space.