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I bought a tiny house for £68K – I have to crawl around my bedroom but it's totally worth it & I have so much space
A YOUNG woman decided to buy a tiny home to get herself on the property ladder quickly.
Bresha Jeanea took to social media to show off her new tiny home but it seemed there was one flaw people couldn't get past.
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The woman who lives in Houston, Texas, had purchased the tiny house for £68,000 and it came to her on the back of a lorry already built.
The stunning home was kitted with a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room and a loft.
But instead of using her bedroom to sleep in, Bresha decided that the loft would make more sense.
The only issue is that the loft is only 3 ft 6 inches high - meaning she was unable to stand up in her bedroom.
This had left millions of people on social media to ask why she even put her bed there in the first place.
Bresha finally revealed why in a recent video posted to her TikTok account @ breshajeanae.
She said: "I live in a tiny home and I get hundreds of questions from people asking me why I chose to make the upstairs loft area my bedroom.
"For context, this is how big the bedroom is downstairs. It's very small, the bedroom is only 8 foot by 5 foot."
Bresha went on to say that her queen-sized bed would barely fit inside the room, let alone her bedside table and other belongings.
She then took people upstairs to the loft which she had turned into her bedroom.
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"Guys, this is the room upstairs. The loft area. And yes, it's not tall at all. It's only 3 foot and a couple inches tall," she explained.
"But it's so big. There's so much room. As you can see, I have my queen size bed, two side tables, a dresser."
She even had room for a small seating area to be put in.
The loft would have been used to store Bresha's clothes and dressing table so she could get ready in the morning,
But she decided to switch the spaces around so her bedroom was now her wardrobe as it made more sense to store clothes where she could actually stand up and get ready.
She continued: "It just made more sense to me to have the downstairs room be my getting ready room where my vanity is and my clothes.
The idea of the bed space having such a small ceiling makes me sick.
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"Rather than trying to get ready upstairs because I can't fully stand up. So I would have to take my clothes, bring them downstairs to the bathroom and put them on."
The clip went viral on her account @breshajeanae and people were quick to take to the comments and share their thoughts.
One person wrote: "Love the logic, makes sense to me. Who's standing in their bed anyways?"
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Another commented: 'I could not do this I'm so claustrophobic."
"I 100% support this. You're sleeping or sitting up there, you're not doing cardio up there, people need to relax," penned a third.
Meanwhile a fourth said: "I know it's not my house but my brain likes the loft space being the room. Love the living room area and then the windows either side. I'd love waking up to sunlight in the morning seems far less claustrophobic too."
"The idea of the bed space having such a small ceiling makes me sick but I'm glad it works for you I see the appeal,' claimed a fifth.
Someone else added: 'It looks so nice, I just get claustrophobic being close to the roof."
