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Poll: Ideal house size
I was just reading responses to this poll on another board and was curious to see what the responses for the area we are in would be.
Re: Poll: Ideal house size
ETA: we have 3BR/2.5BA.
b/t 2k and 2500 sf ... big enough for us to host our HUGE families but not so huge that we can't take care of it.
We live in a 2/1, 1050 sq. ft. For the most part, it's fine for our current needs (though it is way too small/not properly furnished for when we have a lot of people over for a party or a meal.)
In an ideal world, we'd have a separate laundry room, a two-car instead of one-car garage, another full bath, and a third bedroom so that we could separate the office/where we keep DH's animals from the guest bedroom. Once we have kids, I'd like them to have their own rooms and a separate bathroom.
I try to balance all this "want" with the knowledge that the more space you have, the more space you have to clean, heat and cool, and the more stuff you tend to accumulate.
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Our house is about 1,700 sq feet. Our last apartment was 720. I spend so much extra time cleaning and yet we only use about 1200 square feet of this house on a regular basis! I sometimes really miss that apartment. It was so quick to clean!
I feel like our house is a little large for us right now, but I know I'll feel different when we have kids. I think the largest I'd want is 2500 square feet, but around 2000 would be best (again when we have kids).
I also think it depends a lot on the layout. I don't think we have the worse layout ever, but there are some things I'd like different.
Ideally I'd like 5 br 4 ba, and in the 2400-2800 sq foot range. Although it would be a *** to clean that much I'd love more rooms!
We currently have 3br 2 ba and it's just about 1600 sq ft, it's adequate for us but we don't have a lot of extra space.
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Our condo that we sold (and on Friday officially no longer own) was 1200 sq ft and just a little small for us (though it was only a 2bd 2 ba)...
The house we are in now is 2124 sq ft. 4 bd 3ba
It is too much house for us. We have an entire empty bedroom that we just closed up and blocked the vent to. We made the 3rd room into an office and craft room and it is honestly too big for it (its a large room). Our master swallows up the cal king bed. The master closet is barely filled, the linen closet (which is almost a walk-in) is empty...all the bedrooms have walkin closets and all but the master are completely empty.
Our lowest level (tri-story sorta, the first floor is a split level) aka the family room we turned into a workout room and it is WAY too big for that. The main living area is the only area that fits us...except our dining nook is completely empty.
So we are discovering that we have TOO much space now. So we are thinking 1600 sq ft might be perfect when we buy our next home. Until then we will just not buy any more furniture and not add to anything and keep doors closed to closets and empty rooms to ensure we do not accumulate more crap. We are also not pack rats...we are purgers...so that helps, we require purpose for everything in our home.
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