I have been wanting to showcase more older small/tiny houses and Lindsey from Portland, Oregon wrote me about a friend of hers who is selling a Vintage Bungalow-style Cottage and I thought it fit into the style of home I was looking to share with you.
I want to thank Lindsey for getting the nice pictures to share with us and I hope this gives you some idea of what you might find in your location of an older small home that might be just what you are looking for.
This bungalow was built in 1925. It has about 500 square feet of finished space: a cozy living room with fireplace, one bedroom, an amazingly compact kitchen (with miniature vintage stove and minifridge) and a surprisingly spacious bathroom (clawfoot tub!). There’s also a mudroom by the driveway that’s perfect for kicking off your boots and parking your bike, and a partially-finished basement (about 200 square feet) that holds the gas furnace as well as washer and dryer (included).
The house is located at 7905 N. Seward Avenue, in a quiet neighborhood, on a roomy corner lot with a big beautiful fir tree and a gazebo. It’s within 5 blocks of 6 bus lines. It’s listed at $175,000 by Vintage Real Estate.
Thank you Lindsey for bringing this to my attention and sending the nice pictures that really showcase this house.
Photo Credit: Carmen O’Brien
Love it! Anyone know where that small table in the kitchen is from? I’m looking for something of that size and shape for my 315 sq ft place.
I actually used an old sewing machine table and bought a nice piece of wood for on top. Very easy and I love it! So it basically only cost me $15, for the wood top.
The house is gorgeous!
@emmy – the table looks like the Ikea Bjursta dining table, 19Lx35W.
all photos other than the top/outside view are actually taken by the amazing Carmen O’Brien: http://weddingphotographyoregon.com/
I’ll make that change thanks for the information…Kent
I really like this little bungalow. especially the fact that it has a real tub. (being vintage , i would expect it to have exactly what it shows- a real ball and claw foot tub. If I could have gotten my hands on one of those I would have installed it in my own tiny house (on my website) but instead I ended up with a large (double wide) modern fiberglass tub. Lots of folks opt for showers instead in houses as small as this (and mine) but having a tub is also practical for other reasons too. Nice house! And VERY well kept- maintained.
Wow, I LOVE that house. I want it!
This house is amazing. A cabin in the city.
In my area, Carmel by the Sea has a long tradition of small homes under 500 sq ft that for the most part have retained their charm and original lines. Clients that own these are fierce about seeing they remain true to the original architecture in a world gone over the top with Tuscan revival, spanish neo colonial and FL Wright mega mansions by the sea and dotting the Big Sur coast.
Is no one but me gasping over the property being listed at $175 K???
I’m glad someone mentioned it!
Wow! Me, too. $175K in South Central Texas will buy a lot of house or a lot of land. But I must admit that this is one terrific bungalow.
Love this! I really hope you do a lot more like this. I prefer older houses to new houses, they have so much character and history.
And yeah, $175K? OUCH. That is not a price I’m used to here in my little midwestern town!
Actually I was thinking that is a good price. But I live in Portland, so know how expensive housing is here. Great house though 🙂
What a BEAUTIFUL home! So lovingly furnished. Right on about the price…here in Berkeley, CA it would never make it to being listed-it would be snapped up by a greedy realtor who would sell it in 4 days for double the price. I sometimes wonder where I am going to be able to retire and be anywhere near my kids and grandkids- I have a terrific house here in Berkeley, but having my whole retirement check go to the mortgage would be a drag. I think the tiny house movement is a great idea, but it is still difficult to find reasonable land prices on the West Coast. I had a professor that moved to the Texas Hill Country when he retired. He was a travel writer and said after going all around the world it was like heaven on earth there. Plus he could afford to live a decent lifestyle. We still have the hurdle of land price to deal with in this movement.
Here in Delaware taxes are very low, but what about Portland? I visited there some years back and loved it (Powell’s would be a huge temptation, though). If it’s cheap land you want, go to NY State — Ithaca area has lots to offer culturally (Cornell, Ithaca college, Wells College), and land is incredibly cheap. But then, there ARE those winters. If you ever visit that area, stay at a B&B in the Eco-Village.
I’d be curious to know how the professor is doing in the Texas Hill Country two years later. If the bugs–including rabid fire ants, the poisonous snakes, the cedar fever or the fundamentalists haven’t gotten to him, surely weeks (and weeks) of 100-degree-plus temperatures have or will. Yes, it’s cheap land—-for a reason. Been there, done that. lol.
Do you have a floor layout for this little cottage It looks about the right size for me.
This was actually the first house I lived in when I moved to Portland. I answered a classified ad that read, “Do you want to live a dollhouse with a gazebo?” i did & I lived here for two years from 1997-1999, I think. Great memories, glad to hear the gazebo is still there.
do you have any other pictures of this place?
I was thinking of building a little house similar to this if I could get a floor layout…
That does seem like a rather steep price for something this small. It’s adorable, though and the claw foot tub is a huge bonus. I wish there were pictures of the kitchen and any yard, if there is much.
$175,000? For 500 square feet??
I hope the property comes with a lot of land, or else this is just a 2006 “housing bubble” price. The kind of pricing that crashed the market oh so nicely.
I was thinking of building a little house, a floor layout…I’m glad someone mentioned it!