Houses used to be taxed according to the width of their street frontage in Amsterdam. In the expensive areas you can see wide, wide houses stretching along the street, an extravagant announcement to the general public that not only could the owners afford to build a big house, they could also afford the bigger tax that went along with it. The more thrifty Dutch built their houses tall and thin, the width going back from the street being much longer than the width that went along the street. Clever, they still had a fair amount of room but the tax was less.
Just around the corner from us, one of the Amsterdamians took this to the extreme. Can you see number 7 up there (bordered by the two red lines)? Yup, it's the width of a door, and no more. But I'm pretty sure that it goes back and expands. Now, that's one way to stick it to the man.
3 comments:
What a cute little house. You have to work out how to get in and have a looky see. Flash your breast or something. Just get in!
Can you tell it's late. I need to go otherwise I will start talking about bottoms......!!!!!!
Wow how funny and how shrewd! Can you imagine if Kt lived there in those days?!?!? We would all have to lose weight to try and squeeze sideways through a tiny hole in a piece of plywood and end up with splinters in our cleavages and tummys!!!!
ha ha ha yep!!!
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