How big is your current living space?

[HoneySpider]

How many sq ft (approx) is your current house/condo/apt/whatever you live in?

[MrsMB]

1,759....I happened to look at the appraisal the other day because I had a question on materials.

[Deleted]

850 with an additional 90 sq ft office in the garage.

[katiek]

H thinks it's about 1100 sq ft, but that excludes the finished basement. We don't really use that for anything but storage and laundry, though. We probably will eventually. It's a house.

[wanderingenough]

1800sq ft

[katespade]

Ours is about 1200 sf.

[awick14]

1150 each floor. (We only use the first floor though as the basement is rented out.)

[HoneySpider]

Ours is 900-something, I forget exactly. When we moved in here we downgraded from a 1550 sq ft house.

Now I think if we move we're going to have to downgrade again. IDK if I can do it. 

[wanderingenough]

Jul 28, 2014 14:38:07 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

Ours is 900-something, I forget exactly. When we moved in here we downgraded from a 1550 sq ft house.

Now I think if we move we're going to have to downgrade again. IDK if I can do it. 

Just think how much less it will be to clean!

[Deleted]

I have no clue lol. I asked DH and he said around 900 sq ft.

[awick14]

((HoneySpider))

I don't think I could go down any more then your current 900.

Our last place was 500sq ft. It was a bachelor suite. (In an expensive area, it cost us more then half of our current mortgage in rent.)

[grover]

I have no idea.

[HoneySpider]

Jul 28, 2014 14:39:53 GMT -5 wanderingenough said:

Jul 28, 2014 14:38:07 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

Ours is 900-something, I forget exactly. When we moved in here we downgraded from a 1550 sq ft house.

Now I think if we move we're going to have to downgrade again. IDK if I can do it. 

Just think how much less it will be to clean!

This logic would work better if I was actually diligent about cleaning 

[zarapipe]

1350 I think.

[wanderingenough]

Jul 28, 2014 14:45:50 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

Jul 28, 2014 14:39:53 GMT -5 wanderingenough said:

Just think how much less it will be to clean!

This logic would work better if I was actually diligent about cleaning 

Hmm...closer quarters with your kitties?

[travelbug]

Is not big enough a plausible answer lol it is definitely under 500. The whole guest bedroom is taken over by scrapbooking supplies and overstock that we will need when we have a home of our own!

[pooh8402]

2150 sqft, I think.

Eta then I read the rest of the thread. Damn I have a big house. I would call it average for my area.

[estrellita]

I think it's around 920 if I remember right. Hopefully we can save up enough for a bigger place by the time our new lease is up!

[tacocat]

It's a little more than 1500 I think. We'll probably stay another 3-5 years and then move to something a little bigger.

[Deleted]

Mine is just under 2500. I live in a very low cost of living area and bought at the height of the recession when housing prices were at their lowest.

[bk1]

Current house: about 1000 sqft

New house: just over 1700 sqft

[melsamoony]

1500ish sqft

[cactuscookie]

Jul 28, 2014 15:16:16 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

2150 sqft, I think.

Eta then I read the rest of the thread. Damn I have a big house. I would call it average for my area.

I was thinking that part of the reason the house sizes on this board seemed skewed toward smaller spaces is that it's a relatively young group.  I can't remember where you fit on the age spectrum of this board though.  Of course, I'm sure it helps that everything is bigger in Texas.   

[grover]

According to Redfin, 1180 sqft is finished, with another 512 unfinished.

[luv2rn4fun]

Our house is just over 2200. Before we moved we lived in the condo I bought before meeting DH, which was about 1100 sq ft.

[MrsMB]

Jul 28, 2014 16:17:19 GMT -5 cactuscookie said:

Jul 28, 2014 15:16:16 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

2150 sqft, I think.

Eta then I read the rest of the thread. Damn I have a big house. I would call it average for my area.

I was thinking that part of the reason the house sizes on this board seemed skewed toward smaller spaces is that it's a relatively young group.  I can't remember where you fit on the age spectrum of this board though.  Of course, I'm sure it helps that everything is bigger in Texas.   

This AND acreage. Some may have smaller homes on bigger plots. That eats up budget. 

[MrsMB]

Jul 28, 2014 16:45:20 GMT -5 jjwritergirl said:

750 currently. It's tiny!

Looking at houses around 2000ish.

That's gonna be so AWESOME!

[pooh8402]

Yea, it's Texas for sure. I have a bigger lot for living in town but it's not ridiculous big, about .25 acre.

Also, DH and I do skew older in this particular group, 30 and 35. I was living in a 1000 sqft duplex a year and a half ago, when we were in between houses, and a 850 sqft condo before we got married.

[winecheery]

1550 plus whatever the garage is.

ETA: It's a 3/2 and 2 car garage for visualization

[estrellita]

I think there are quite a few of us that live in apartments/condos, so that definitely affects the size considering we wouldn't have basements or anything. We're definitely going to outgrow this fast, but I can't make up my mind about wanting to stay here and buy a house or start looking on/after ML for a job somewhere in between our parents. Moving there would cost more for sure so we wouldn't get anything huge, but the pay should be more too. We'll see what happens! I'd love something 1500+ sq ft!