"The average floor area per home in Tokyo is 65.18 square meters."
What in tarnation is thatThat house is huge! They should move to London - £90,000 ($110,500) for 7msq... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...est-microflat-sells-for-80-above-asking-price
Giving priority to the location, they purchased a 10 tsubo (33 square meters) plot of land in their desired location that fit their budget. Although the initial plan was to build a two-story house, the wife, who had read in a book that a commoner's row house in the Edo period at that time was 9 shaku 2 ken (9.6 m2) where a family of four lived, said "6 tsubo is too big," which led to the planning of a one-story house with a total floor area of 19 m2.
Somehow I sense a contradiction of cosmic proportions when I think of minimalism and McIntosh (to say nothing of record player).I like it, they live a life of minimalism. Except for that record player, he would be better served by getting rid of the records and freeing up space. Streaming gives you a massive music "collection" and takes up hardly any space at all.
You guys heard of Parkinson's Law? Demand rises to meet supply. Examples are, expenditure rises to meet income, time dilates to meet a deadline, appetite expands to meet the size of dinner. With housing, the amount of crap that you hoard expands to meet your living space. This is definitely true, after I moved to a larger house it only took me a few years to fill it up with crap again. I was telling the wife that we should move to a smaller house so that it would force us to get rid of all the crap.