A wall has a footprint, and it takes away valuable space from your total house footprint. Some people never think about the amount of space being taken by walls, assuming that walls are paper-thin, or that the amount of space they take is negligible. But walls actually take quite a lot of space. Take a look at the floor plan below.
This is a log house. The floor plan is 8×12 meters (outside dimensions) and we have drawn some random walls inside the house. Continue reading