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Little Houses in Big Cities: Dave Sarti's Red Box
"Say yes to small instead of no to big."
Karrie Jacobs, author of The Perfect $100,000 House, described in Metropolis how zoning regulations in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver are being modified to promote infill, smaller housing, and to "say yes to small instead of no to big."
One small house that she loved was Dave Sarti's 800 square foot little red box in Seattle. "It's a sweet fire-engine-red box planted in the backyard of a Central District home. I walked down the grassy driveway past an unremarkable blue traditional home and was surprised to see this Bauhaus cube where another yard might have a swing set. The red HardiPanel siding made it look very much of the moment, but the efficiency of design and small size were reminiscent of the workers' houses that Gropius and his contemporaries built in Europe between the wars."
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One small house that she loved was Dave Sarti's 800 square foot little red box in Seattle. "It's a sweet fire-engine-red box planted in the backyard of a Central District home. I walked down the grassy driveway past an unremarkable blue traditional home and was surprised to see this Bauhaus cube where another yard might have a swing set. The red HardiPanel siding made it look very much of the moment, but the efficiency of design and small size were reminiscent of the workers' houses that Gropius and his contemporaries built in Europe between the wars."
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