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84 square feet, 305 possessions.
The New York Times uses that tally in a Home & Garden story to sum up the day-to-day existence of Dee Williams of Olympia, Wash.
Williams, 51, runs Portland Alternative Dwellings, which builds small houses for people seeking to simplify their lives. That issue is literally close to her heart. Williams began downsizing after suffering a heart attack a decade ago. She sold her three-bedroom dwelling and lives in a "micro-house" the size of a large garden shed, which she built on a trailer and parked in the backyard of a traditional home owned by two close friends.
"I started seeing 'congestive heart failure' in my health records," Williams recalls.
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