forgotten_aria

My parents' house (outside of San Diego) is over 3400 square feet, I think, and it feels *huge*. When I'm visiting I feel like I never leave the kitchen third of the house, which also includes the guest room. (The middle third is the living/dining room; the far third is the master bedroom/bathroom/closet complex and office.) When they and we both bought our houses, and we had two tenants, they had twice as much space for half as many people. It was kind of insane.

Even our current 1700 is almost a little too much for just the two of us, though we have been trying to keep the amount of random crap in our lives down. We do have the flexibility to redo rooms one at a time and just not go into them when their project winds up stalled for six months, which at least is nice. I could definitely see something smaller feeling very cramped, particularly if you did have more stuff or wanted to take part of the house out of service for whatever reason.

If I was going to try to rearrange things, I'd want more "uncounted" space for workshop, greenhouse, model railroad, bike shop sorts of applications. We could probably shuffle the basement into "enough" space if we really wanted to and were willing to get rid of more stuff.