I bet the neighbors didn't see THAT coming when they didn't buy the extra lot.

It's a shame the cladding had to be stark white instead of something a little bit more earthy or perhaps a dark green so that it doesn't stick out and look like a giant refrigerator.

I feel like this was just built as a middle finger for all those housing regulations

This reminds me of how houses in dense areas in Vietnam are built. Instead of building apartment complexes, houses like this with one room per floor are built. My aunt's place is like that and it's 5 floors high.The benefit is everyone has their own front entrance facing the street to easily park their motorcycles. Also people in Vietnam tend to use the first floor of their home to run a business.

*man tries hardest not to complain about Toronto’s zoning laws.

I can imagine how much the neighbor complain about how this building blocked all the sunlight in their back yard.

An extreme amount of regulations and they still let him build that cereal box

Praising the fact that the bathroom has "complete privacy" as a euphemism to "we weren't allowed to put in any windows" cracked me up 🤣

the home looks so small yet in the inside it has enough space its crazy and also gorgeous

Am I the only one that actually likes it? Like give this guy a break, he saw an opportunity and took it. He’s not hurting anyone and he designed an incredible home on a tiny piece of property HIS property. That’s the perks of owning land. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This house looks like a killer ass pc tho

I literally can see the neighbor's garden dying from lack of sun.

This house is like someone squeezing between two people on a two person bench.

I can't believe the city of Toronto wouldn't let this guy add another window but let my neighbours build a 30 foot, 3 storey extension, eliminating 100% of their green space and leaving me in the shadows staring at a cinder block wall

It's listed at $2.7m. Too much for that neighbourhood.

Imagine a whole neighborhood of these, it would fit so many houses

All its missing is an Intel Core i7 processor and 1TB hard drive.....!

"Well i wanted to build something that made sense, but building codes" kinda vibe of this video.

At that point when your house is THAT close to other people’s you might as well live in an apartment and save a couple 100,000

Very creative. I like how the squirrels can jump from the tree into the bedroom.

Please do an interview with the neighbors. I’m very interested what they have to say.

“Has a nice view of everybody’s backyard”

Yes what a beautiful view of others backyards and cars

The inside is amazing, the outside just doesn’t fit in with the neighbourhood... poor neighbours

And it blends in with the neighboring houses so well...

Damn, those poor neighbours. Must absolutely hate him. Great house, though.

Im sure the neighbors loved you building that eyesore

From the inside, looks fabulous, love the design. From the outside and from the neighbour's point of view, looks bloody awful. Doesn't fit with the rest of the landscape at all. I'd be very unhappy if someone built this next to me.

I would live in a house like this if the neighborhood also had similar houses, but the contrast is so odd

Excuse me where's your bathroom? 3rd floor to your left.

After reading comments and posting earlier, I read an article from the Star that outlined the battle to create this house. The original person who bought the property to reinvent the space bailed out, selling and almost doubling his output. When the new guy bought it, neighbors counteracted when designs came in and tree limbs from the neighboring tree were cut without permission. There was a battle at every turn. Then he was asking $3 million for the house. A similar situation happened in Milwaukee where an alderman built an absolute monstrosity in an older part of town. Unless your design reflects the ambiance of the neighborhood it should never be approved. Just saying.

7:16 "You get a nice view of everybody's kind of back yards" - I am surprised you got a permit to build such a tall structure in this neighborhood. Nobody has any privacy in their back yard anymore. Also the architecture doesn't match that of the other houses.

I love the house, but not for that setting. It’s makes the neighborhood look very odd.

this reminds me of my cousin joining my minecraft server and builds something right in the middle of all my builds

Inside is amazing but the outside needs a serious makeover.

this house is rude, squeezing in like that between two decent houses.

Personally, I would have built it just 2 stories with a roof top deck

"Hi, yes, do you have any listings of 4 shipping containers stacked on top of each other with views of an old alley? Preferably around 3 million dollars. Oh and I'd prefer for my neighbors to think I'm an asshole as well."

This house is like a loud, fat third wheel on a romantic date trying to ride a tandem bicycle

I love the fact that in order to build you must have at least a 50% of green going on :)

I heard a whole lot of "they wouldn't allow us..."

If i was his neighbor, I'd buy a projector and watch movies on this guy's outer sidewall. Then invite others then sell popcorn. Rofl!

Man says ‘we have lots of wildlife around here.’ 🤣🤣

"It can be replicated" ... heaven help us all

A nice view of everyone's backyard. And into their bedroom windows. The plot would have been perfect for a tiny house or smt. Personally I wouldn't pay 3m to be the most hated resident on the block.

Looks like a supervillain's house that was lifted by a space ship and brought there

They did an incredible job given the many construction and legal constraints.

Skinny homes have been fought against in Edmonton for years. Many Edmontonians believe that they greatly reduce property values.

An easy fix is the color. Why white? Sticks out way too much. Make it like the rest earth colors, burnt clay, dark orange color, dark gray.. anything but white

I think what he did was cool and I admire his dedication to the project but man what an unsightly building in the middle of a historic neighborhood.

I tried this for a while. Couldn't take the overcrowding in the neighborhood. My driveway was always getting blocked due to the extreme lack of parking spaces. And you always know what your neighbor is doing. It also overwhelmed the sewer system (neighborhood got quite smelly at certain times)

I absolutely love your videos! It's so great hearing from the owners themselves about the houses they've built, filmed in a great way. I don't know how you manage to find the most incredible houses around the world either!

Canada, that country with a seemingly endless amount of space builds homes the size of a bed

This guy was too concerned about whether he could fit a house in here rather than if he should.

Might be a cool idea but you clearly see he had almost no idea what he was doing, it horribly ties into the citys character at that point and architecturally this is an eyesore not only on an appearance level but also the construction lol.

how to make ez money: step 1: build house that everybody in the neighborhood hates. step 2: buy home insurance for said new house. step 3: wait for angry neighbors to set house on fire. step 4: ??? step 5: profit.

If you can't put a greenroof on seems a wasted opportunity to not have a rooftop terrace or something

"The house itself is 14 feet wide" And in Toronto, it'd sell for, what, 1.8m USD?

Our first house was an 1880’s workers cottage in Toronto on a tiny dead end street. The lot itself was 14.4’ by 86’. Interestingly, the front property line reached to the middle of the street, so the home owners on the street actually owned the street itself. This meant that the city would not plow the snow (although they did garbage collection). The houses and the street were truly from another time. We really enjoyed our time there.

Back in my home country there are many houses like these. I think we should start building more of these houses here in Toronto. It makes housing more affordable as well as provides more available shelter for other residents. It might seem small but the height makes up for it. It is good for a small family to live in, and you can probably build a few extra floors for a bigger family.

It's a great use of space but it sticks out and I bet you the neighbours are not too jazzed about this house. I live in an old neighbourhood where people are completely gutting beautiful old houses and putting up these weird-looking structures that completely take away from the historical look of the neighbourhood. Don't get me wrong I think it's great that a space like that doesn't get wasted I just think it looks like a mini apartment building in the middle of those houses.

It would suck to be his neighbor, imagine having nice backyard with lots of sunlight and this guy just build this tower right next to it

“A nice view of people’s backyards” That’s kinda creepy

this is beautiful and I'd live there, lot of room, very gorgeous and well planned/made. That tree is so perfect where it's located

That lot really should've been split between the neighbours either side, but I suspect neither could afford it so instead this towering white box is going for $3m CAD... Doesn't exactly give me hope for the housing market.

Uhg! I lived & worked in downtown Toronto until 2009. When I left, my hypertension was so bad I had to wear a heart monitor for a few months. My wife and I bought 9 acres with a homestead from 1907 in New Brunswick for less than 100k. We have friends who are selling their 1M homes and buying here and retiring, living off their gains. Here, I have deer in my backyard everyday. There, I had to sit in bumper to bumper traffic on the Queen-E just to get home in the Beaches to argue with my neighbors about parking or have the whole house shake every time a street car rumbled by. Watching this video reminded me that I've made the right choice. It cost him a fortune to build in a parking space and he's happy to rise up high enough to see squirrels and birds. I take 50 steps out of my kitchen door and I can be fishing in my own 1/4 mile trout creek full of brook trout. My hypertension is gone and I've likely added years to my life. Toronto if way overrated.

I have no polite words about the zoning. I am truly impressed with what they have done with what they had to work with.

Him: "No room for cranes..." Editor: Let me just put these pictures of them using cranes, cherry pickers, concrete dispensers etc riiiiggght here

How about we rethink city planning instead of cramming people together?

The would be really cool as a complex of homes like this in uptown’s or in college towns

Hideous beyond belief. It would be more chic to live at the YMCA.

If I was the neighbor I’ll graffiti his white wall

"A nice view of everyone's back yards".....that are all fenced in for privacy.

man imagine having construction THAT close to your house, poor neighbors lmao

It may look practical, space-wise but it’s scary to live in skinny 🏡, looks not structurally strong.

This would be such an awesome apartment complex or townhouse

It looks so out of place in its environment :/ Big white box with with black stripes planted in a tree filled neighbourhood full of neutral and earth-tones. I don't know why he went for that colour. It really magnifies its imposing height.

3 millions for a tiny home in a low income area? Did I get that wrong?

Yards that were one brightly sunlight are now shrouded in shadow thanks to this building. Other than that, y’all did a good job working with the given dimensions. This would be way cooler in a slightly more developed area, not in a short suburb.

Not gonna lie id love to live here, I clicked on this expecting a super tiny house but the inside is genuinely pretty spacious, like even TWO bathrooms! And beautiful views of nature and other houses. I know people like to complain about tiny houses but if you've seen some of the videos I have, this is genuinely a pretty normal sized house, just vertical space vs horizontal, and it doesn't sacrifice anything like some tiny homes do, it feels like a genuine house.

I have mixed emotions about this one. It is amazing how it was built to accommodate all the random zoning. It seems that it is not considerate of the neighbors. But they each had the opportunity to purchase the vacant lot before he did. You can’t build over tree roots, but blocking the sun it needs to survive is no problem. I think this one has found the limit in the universe for being logical and ludicrous at the same time.

On the one hand, it's brilliant ingenuity in the face of city regulations. On the other hand, it's obnoxious and cheap-looking in build and design and inconsiderate to the neighbourhood and the neighbours. if it stays up for any substantial length of time, i will be genuinely surprised.

That building has blocked the neighbour's garden from all sun. They must be fuming

I feel bad for the closest neighbours though, if it's me I will never have a heart to build towering house like this.

It’s so out of place with those low income houses that are kinda falling apart and you have This tall ass futuristic house

I bet his neighbors hate him for building his house like that lmao. It sticks out like a sore thumb

What amuses me a little is the fact this house is still for sale from what I've seen and yet the guy was talking as if it's a unique house that's going to sell fast unless it did but then the new owners realised how small and bad it was so have decided to sell it.

Very cozy, very trendy, different. City living on a tiny lot . Good idea

8:24 😄😄😄 “you get to see the East side of Toronto” (camera zooms in on several houses across the road)

“A nice view of everyone’s back yards.” Yikes... 😬

Beautiful home. Such a creative use of space.

I have watched this video more than once as well several others (faircompanies) about areas in Toronto, Canada, including videos about Canada in general. What you have managed to construct with a small amount of space available within the constraints of Toronto's city-building ordinances in a neighborhood of traditional houses in an urban subdivision is wonderful. It works for you in Toronto with your specific build, with the fact of the cost of property and limited available space including the city's building constraint. With your build, you didn't change or infringe upon the rights of other homeowners in the subdivision. You took a small amount of available space with what appeared to be a dilapidated small house and constructed something with a small footprint upward, creating what you needed in a home. It didn't change the overall appearance of the subdivision nor decrease pre-existing property value. My comments do not pertain to a prototype of future builds or additional similar constructions. I have watched similar faircompanies videos in other parts of the city of Toronto. The fact you were able to build and not damage trees, have outdoor space( a yard) and create a parking pad on such a small amount of land..great.

And it's only $2,999,000 asking. LMAO You can keep your Toronto.

Other than the grass, this house reminds me of the efficient use of space that homes in Tokyo use.

That’s a great use of a tiny space. I would have loved to seen the bottom floor used as a garage. Side note, my grandpa built and installed a small elevator in their house to help my great-grandpa get up and down stairs. It was always a lot of fun when grandma let us ride up in it.

And yet still vastly larger than most houses in the UK.

Another reason why Toronto needs better urban planning.

imagine being those neighbors and all of a sudden every view you’ve ever had is gone

I just love the concept saves a lot of space and you have everything you need.

Fantastic solution for a narrow site and great that local planning policies allowed such a development. I doubt very much that my local authority planning dept. would on the west of Scotland would allow something like this for a similar site