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At home in the world's narrowest home

  • Squeezed into a 5-foot Warsaw alley that actually narrows further to 3 feet, the home itself is just about 50 inches wide in front and scarcely more than 2 feet wide toward the back.
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    At home in the world's narrowest home

    Squeezed into a 5-foot Warsaw alley that actually narrows further to 3 feet, the home itself is just about 50 inches wide in front and scarcely more than 2 feet wide toward the back.
  • <a href="http://yhoo.it/S3rak0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Read more about the Keret Home;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Read more about the Keret Home</a>, which has about 46 square feet of floor space (presumably when the remote-controlled stairs are drawn up), <a href="http://yhoo.it/S3rak0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:on Yahoo! Homes' Spaces blog;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">on Yahoo! Homes' Spaces blog</a>.
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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

    Read more about the Keret Home, which has about 46 square feet of floor space (presumably when the remote-controlled stairs are drawn up), on Yahoo! Homes' Spaces blog.
  • The stairway retracts via remote control.
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    World's thinnest house Keret stairway

    The stairway retracts via remote control.
  • The floor space adds up to just 46 square feet, and that's with the remote-controlled entrance stairs drawn up into their flattened position. The sleeping area, which does double-duty as an office, must be accessed by wall-mounted ladder.
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    World's thinnest house Keret beanbag

    The floor space adds up to just 46 square feet, and that's with the remote-controlled entrance stairs drawn up into their flattened position. The sleeping area, which does double-duty as an office, must be accessed by wall-mounted ladder.
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    World's thinnest house Keret ladder width

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    World's thinnest house Keret kitchen and wet room

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    World's thinnest house Keret stovetop sink

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    World's thinnest house Keret bed

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    World's thinnest house Keret at desk looking up

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    World's thinnest house Keret desk

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    World's thinnest house Keret working at desk

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    World's thinnest house Keret alley

  • This is an architectural rendering of the Keret Home, as is the image preceding this and the one following this.
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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

    This is an architectural rendering of the Keret Home, as is the image preceding this and the one following this.
  • The crowd outside the building on opening day.
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    World's thinnest house Keret crowd outside

    The crowd outside the building on opening day.
  • The Keret Home has no windows in the traditional sense.
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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

    The Keret Home has no windows in the traditional sense.
  • The 5-foot-wide alleyway in Warsaw, Poland, before the Keret Home was inserted.
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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

    The 5-foot-wide alleyway in Warsaw, Poland, before the Keret Home was inserted.
  • Polish architect <a href="http://on.wsj.com/S3qNpv" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Jakub Szczesny told the Wall Street Journal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Jakub Szczesny told the Wall Street Journal</a> that he often walked by the gap and thought, "This is a perfect spot for life to be inserted."
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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

    Polish architect Jakub Szczesny told the Wall Street Journal that he often walked by the gap and thought, "This is a perfect spot for life to be inserted."
  • A computerized rendering of how the inserted house was expected to look.
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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

    A computerized rendering of how the inserted house was expected to look.
  • The following seven photos are of the Keret Home, thought to be the world's narrowest house, in various stages of construction. The house couldn't be build on the site, since the alley is only 5 feet wide.
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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

    The following seven photos are of the Keret Home, thought to be the world's narrowest house, in various stages of construction. The house couldn't be build on the site, since the alley is only 5 feet wide.
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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

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    The world's thinnest building in pictures

Squeezed into a 5-foot Warsaw alley that actually narrows further to 3 feet, the home itself is just about 50 inches wide in front and scarcely more than 2 feet wide toward the back.
<a href="http://yhoo.it/S3rak0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Read more about the Keret Home;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Read more about the Keret Home</a>, which has about 46 square feet of floor space (presumably when the remote-controlled stairs are drawn up), <a href="http://yhoo.it/S3rak0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:on Yahoo! Homes' Spaces blog;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">on Yahoo! Homes' Spaces blog</a>.
The stairway retracts via remote control.
The floor space adds up to just 46 square feet, and that's with the remote-controlled entrance stairs drawn up into their flattened position. The sleeping area, which does double-duty as an office, must be accessed by wall-mounted ladder.
This is an architectural rendering of the Keret Home, as is the image preceding this and the one following this.
The crowd outside the building on opening day.
The Keret Home has no windows in the traditional sense.
The 5-foot-wide alleyway in Warsaw, Poland, before the Keret Home was inserted.
Polish architect <a href="http://on.wsj.com/S3qNpv" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Jakub Szczesny told the Wall Street Journal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Jakub Szczesny told the Wall Street Journal</a> that he often walked by the gap and thought, "This is a perfect spot for life to be inserted."
A computerized rendering of how the inserted house was expected to look.
The following seven photos are of the Keret Home, thought to be the world's narrowest house, in various stages of construction. The house couldn't be build on the site, since the alley is only 5 feet wide.

This Polish home--the world's narrowest--is squeezed into a Warsaw alley only five feet wide. The house is an art installation that pays tribute to Israeli author Etgar Keret's family members, and their experiences during the Holocaust. Keret now lives and works in the house part time.