It’s going to take me a bit of time to get used to small quarters; this house is a smidge over 800 square feet, although it feels a bit bigger. I’ve just spent 6 months in a three-bedroom house with a bathroom that’s bigger than my current bedroom. I think that house was a bit over 2,000 square feet.
Still, there’s a story in today’s Washington Post that describes the mansions being built by some people in the Washington area — one is 23,000 square feet. That’s equal to almost twenty nine of my house.
I can already see that my new goal is to become smug and self-righteous about my little house and how efficiently I can live here without thousands of square feet to clean and fill with stuff.
While I do like large rooms and my studio is 3,000 sf, my space requirement is work related. In the same vane I wouldn’t mind a 2,000 sf garage for working on cars.
But for living space the house I bought was 840 sf no doubt very close to what you have now and when we moved up we moved to a 1,200 sf house which really wasn’t that much bigger we just added a third bedroom. We found we used the 2nd bedroom as our office and we didn’t have space for guests in the 2bd rm house.
When we moved from Alaska to Oregon again regardless of what we qualified for we bought a small 900 sf house again converting the 2nd bedroom to an office and keeping the third for guests. Though this time we tore out a wall so the office is more open to the living room.
I can’t imagine needing more than 2,000 sf unless you have more kids than the Brady Bunch
I don’t know whether I am going to blog the ‘houses bigger than a Third World village’ article or not. Sometimes I read something that disgusts me so much I have to leave it alone. This is such a situation. Ironically, I was reading Hurricane Katrina survivor stories right before I read the mansions piece. Apparently, there are no limits to selfishness for some Americans.
I believe you did a find job of explaining why a lot of space is really unnecessary.