At only 1 meter wide, this house is possibly the narrowest in the world. It certainly is the narrowest in Brazil where it has turned the tiny town of Madre de Deus into a tourist attraction.

While there certainly have been other narrow houses built over the years, The Spite House in NYC comes to mind, I can not recall any of them being freestanding, instead wedged between buildings or anchored on one side to an existing structure.

It has three floors with plans to add on a fourth.  And contains all of the modern amenities that one expects in a home.  It is just narrow.

I am fascinated by the fact that the owner chose to build a house like this. I have not been able to find anything online that specifically says why the house had to be built on such a narrow footprint.  I assume that it was because of the availability of land, but I suppose it could just have been for the aesthetics.

It definitely brings new meaning to the phrase the walls closing in on you.

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