Clicky Poll: Sq Ft

[mrs.jacinthe]

Just curious.

ETA: I can't figure out how to modify the poll itself, but choose the smallest you'd be WILLING to live in if willing and able are different.

[housegeek]

Ive lived with a boyfriend in 400 sq ft for a year, it was pretty awful. When it was just me i was happy with 800sqft, and now with 4 of us I'd be happy with a well layed out 1600 sq ft.

[thewop]

I currenly live in 980sq ft and am perfectly happy....so yeah, under 1000 is ok for me! Layout is important though. We have a great layout to our house to where it doesn't feel super tiny. There are other 1000 sq ft homes in the area that I would not be willing to live in due to layout, same with some 1000+ sq ft homes.

[emoflamingo]

We have 884 square feet right now and I think I could squeeze a fourth person in the house with all their crap. I grew up in a house that is 690 square feet (YES) with 6 people (OMG HOW?!*).

*I just looked it up on the county appraiser website and I am dumbfounded it's that small.

[minniebee]

Willing to live in and able to live in are different questions.

Sure, I *could* squeeze into one of those micro houses, the little 200 sf ones, if I really had no other option. I'm able to live there, but wouldn't go willingly. :-)

Given that I live in over 4000 sf now, I think I would willingly go down to 2000. To some, that's still a lot, but to me, that's half the space I have now so it doesn't seem big at all.

[315bride]

H and I live comfortably in our 750 sf apartment. Nothing seems tiny to me, in fact most guests comment on how roomy it is. I would wish for a larger kitchen, though.

[mollybrown]

I didn't vote, because what we're able to live in and what we're willing to live in are completely different. We're currently living in about 850 sq ft (family of 4), and there's no way we would do this if it were permanent. We're waiting for our house to be finished, and most of our stuff is in storage. We could do it, but no way would we want to. I think the smallest we'd be willing to live in would be about 2000 sq feet. Our last house was 1500 sq ft, and that was too small.

I do agree that layout is key. We had 3 bathrooms and a laundry room, but no family room, office, basement, or den. 1500 might have felt more spacious distributed differently.

[kaylie]

If it were just me I could do 400 sq feet. With H, we could do 1000. I grew up in a family of four in a 1300 square foot house with a .12 acre lot and no basement/attic space.

[Deleted]

We currently have just under 1200 sq and I think it is perfect. I would live in smaller if we had too but given a choice I wouldn't want to.

[heygrey]

we currently live in 480 sq/ft and it's fine. i would live here with a small human if i could keep the stuff they require under control. our building plan is ~1200 sq/ft. it's all about the layout.

[vanillahip]

We're house hunting now. Prices are cheap but the the market's thin so it'll take a while. We're looking for 1000-1700. I don't think we'd go less than 1000, we're (hopefully) going to start a family in our next home. (Current home is 1080 and feels TINY but that's because of an unfortunately dysfunctional layout.)

[Deleted]

Our first house was 1700 SF...we now have 3 kid's but we could still have easily survived in that house.

[bethaboo]

Our apartment is (I think) 944 square feet. I would be perfectly willing to live in something close to this size for forever - it is way easier to keep clean. However, when we finally buy, I don't think I will be willing to settle in something less than 1400 square feet.

[lolc]

I put 1500-1750 sq. feet to willingly live in. We JUST upgraded from 1300 sq. feet to a little over 2500 sq. feet. At the moment, it actually seems a little overwhelming. I KNOW we will grow into it... but yeah, it's pretty empty right now!! However, at 1300 sq. feet we were bursting at the seams. It also wasn't the best layout though (and layout is extremely important).

[brooklyn]

For the past year, we've lived in a ~300 sq foot studio, and our stuff fits just fine. We like it here so much that we just signed another 2 year lease. Obviously, we'll move when it's time to have kids, but for the 2 of us, it's perfect. We used to live in a one bedroom, so we did sell/donate/trash a lot of things when we moved. Really made us realize how much unnecessary crap we owned.

[jenni232323]

Our first apartment was around 450 sq ft studio. We lovingly named it tiny house from the Geico commercials www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lomy7xAVDKE . It wasn't bad for the 2 of us. We then chose to buy at the height of the housing market and now we'll be staying in our 1600 sq ft home for many many years. Just the 2 of us and the dog and it feels big. Even growing up in my parents 7500 sq ft home as an only child, I didn't feel like we had this much space.

[aweilba]

Well, I'm currently living in a 1500 sq foot townhouse, and it's starting to feel really small, so I chose that one. I want a bigger house in the next few years.

[megalicious]

We're in 1217 now, spacious for the Boston burbs, but it's tiny compared to what I'm used to being from the Midwest. I wouldn't even consider anything smaller.

[housegeek]

Jul 1, 2012 16:05:53 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

Can't do poll on iPad. But I am looking for a smaller house, and for just me I think that 1200 is about as small as I'm willing to go. Although I fell in love with a house that was only 1000.

Really? I'm on an iPad and I can vote on the polls.

[aprilfool]

We currently live in a 580sq ft sublet, so I selected <1000. Our new house will be about 2,400 sq ft and that seems so big comparatively. I grew up in a house that was about 3,000 sq ft with a huge backyard, but I have been living in very small apartments since I left.

[jena]

With 4 kids, my minimum is north of 2000. With a family of 4 we lived quite comfortably in 1300 sq ft - more comfortably than the 1600 sq ft we had before just because of layout.

And I know people don't always count the sq ft of basements, which to me is totally cheating because we don't have them down here. Yeah, I could live in my BIL's 900 sq foot house with a couple kids... because there was another 400 sq ft of basement.

[emisi]

I'd like to know who put >3000. That's quite a minimum!

[gingerlecoeur]

We live in a 680sq' condo in a fun neighborhood of boston. The size is a trade off for the location. We also have a great, private garden which is rare in the city.
SO and I would love to have a larger place, but really, we have what we need. (And we can't afford an extra $200,000 for a 2 bedroom...)