In Belarus small homes are not new — in the villages many of the log cabins with an area of about 40 square meters. Now build a small house of about 100 square meters — this is easier to heat. Most modern homes is at least 150 square meters. Based on the bedroom for the parents and each child, plus a living room and a spacious kitchen-dining room. What does the “little house” in other countries?
Village it people with small homes — less than 90 square meters.
Magazine houzz has collected some interesting data around the world.
UK
A small British house is a popular Victorian buildings like the one where is located the Museum of London Sherlock Holmes — with a tiny bathroom canisters and narrow staircases.
Photo website pda.diary.ru
Those who have the opportunity to compare, say, that even Khrushchev sometimes benefit in comparison with other Victorian houses (this, of course, on size). Many of these homes are operated today.
Biburi. Photo website geoscope.info
According to the Royal Institute of British architecture in 2013, the average house size in the UK amounted to approximately 86 sq m and had three bedrooms. This is almost two times less than it was, for example, in the 1920s, when the country was a new housing boom, mainly focused on the middle class.
For new homes meets even more modest figure — 76 sqm, this modern small house has received from journalists nicknamed shoebox homes — “house the size of a shoebox or cage for rabbits” (rabbit hutch).
So the Brits are considered owners of the smallest homes in Western Europe. For comparison, the area of the average new home in Ireland 87,7m2. In the Netherlands, 115,5m2, Denmark at 137 square metres.
France
According to the National Institute of statistics and economic studies in 2013, the average area of house in France is of 112.2 sq. m. this average home the average home to 2,5 people on average have five rooms excluding kitchen and bathrooms. Which is pretty good. It is no coincidence that separate houses represent 56.6% of the total number of housing. With regard to the surrounding land, there is a rule: the farther away from big expensive cities, the lower prices — and a plot, usually more.
Photo website agence-provarim.com
In France tend to point out the reverse of the British: the area of houses in the calculation of a person does not decrease but grows: since the 1980s years has increased by nearly 10 sq. m. this trend is Especially visible in private houses owned by the owners, where, according to the same study, an average of 45 sq. m. Another interesting trend: the residents over 65 the figure is higher — 60 sq. m per person, while in people under 30 — almost half the size.
Germany
In Germany average living space in a house designed for a family (one family house Einfamilienhaus), according to official statistics from 2013, is 128,5 sq. m. However, we must note that this figure is given in the whole country: West Germany at home on average more (136,3 sq. m), and in the East less (114,7 m).
A Suburb Of Frankfurt. Photo website votpusk.ru
In the single-family homes, located usually in the suburbs, small towns, villages and rural areas, live 65,9% of German homeowners.
Preserved in Germany and bast of the village. But at home they hard to called small. Photo website stroitelistvo-bani.ru
Italy
The average size of houses in Italy range from 70 to 80 sq. m. it is assumed that a person must have at least 28 sq. m. For comparison, country house luxury (such in the country, is 0.23 percent of the total) starts from 160 sq m and must have a private garden or Park.
Another Italian architect Maria Chiara d’amico — calling all country houses are less than 160 sq m small, and as the average size of the suburban real estate gives a figure of 350 sq. m.
In Spain housing legislation is very different in different regions of the country, hence the wide variation and confusion in the figures. Colleagues from Houzz Spain, however, believe that little can be called a country house, which has an area less than 70 sq. m.
Spanish village. Photo сайтаstroitelistvo-bani.ru
Photo website stroitelistvo-bani.ru
USA
In the United States consider not the average size and the most common size of the houses. According to the 2015 year, the typical new building of the number built had an area of 229 sq. m, and the standard new house is about 234 sq. m.
Photo website redfin.com
However it should be borne in mind that most of the housing stock in the United States are not new houses but old ones that are smaller in size compared to the above figures.
While new homes typically have more bedrooms and bathrooms. This is typical of such States as Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas and the region on the East Coast from Florida to Vermont.
