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RE: Amsterdam Insights: Houses as Small as a Front Door
There are a lot of houses with fronts under 3m , in my town and 3 more I know it. I think in my town it's 2,20m.
I always wonder how you get big things - like a bed - up and down in those houses.
In Amsterdam, through the windows. At the top of the house they usually build a hook and with a rope goods were/are lifted up and pulled through the window of the floor it needs to be. Several hundreds of years ago, many houses in the city centre of Amsterdam were storage houses, ie not for living. Boats would bring goods brought and collected from all over the world to these storage houses through the so many canals we have build for that purpose. These hooks at the top of the building were invented to bring the goods to the right floors. Still today, many of bigger goods are lifted through the air in and out of the houses through the windows. Throughout the city you can rent the so called "Hout en Blok" translated to English something like "Rope and Block". This is a long rope with a hook on one of its ends and a pulley that needs to be attached to the hook at the top of the house.
Image: Guy hanging the Pulley at the Hook on top of a House
Yeah, but that small house has that not and definitely not the ones here where I live.
You mean your small houses are a lot bigger? :)
no, they just have nothing where you can move things up outside and into the window (often having windows where you would have a hard time climbing through so small as they are)
Ok ok, than I guess they build the big stuff insight the house, maybe go to Ikea and get their products. Most pieces will fit through small areas and then build it together in the house itself. Like Lego :)