H likes to say it's 5500 square feet, which is technically true, but we rent out the basement and the attic is semi-finished so it's really closer to 3300. We have three dedicated bedrooms and two and a half baths that we use (another full bath is in the attic). Anyway it's a weird house and probably impractical for most people but we love it. And no, hopefully never moving!
~3400 sq. ft. 4 bedrooms, 3 bath, 1 office, living room, family room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, entry way. The full basement isn't finished so that would give us even more room if we finish it.
We have 1 child now (and 2 dogs!) and planning on another in a year or so. This house will be plenty big to raise our children in! We moved here in May and it's large for us now but we will grow into it!
We have a full acre yard that we love and we completely fenced it in for the dogs. We are also in a cul de sac, which was a must!
Our new house is 2700 sqft, 4b, 3b, huge bonus room upstairs, and "office" (playroom) downstairs. I still am not used to all of the space and I often twirl around Pollyanna-style in hallways and closets lol. Our new yard is very tiny but it's exactly what we wanted, and there's lots of green spaces and parks within a 5 minute walk.
We probably could have been really comfortable in ~2000 sqft, but DH insisted on buying "bigger than we need" so hopefully we won't outgrow it. We plan to live here the next 15-20 years and then probably downsize once the kids are older and moved out.
We have 2 kids and won't be having any more, but yes we could comfortably add one more kid here.
Post by turtlegirl on Oct 20, 2014 18:28:48 GMT -5
Earlier this year we sold our house that was 1300 sq.ft. and 3 bed, 2 bath.
We just moved into a 2100 sq.ft. house with 4 beds, 2 baths. It's the perfect size for us.
We have 2 kids and an 80 lb dog. Right now the boys share a room, we have an office and are TTC #3, so the extra room will become a nursery within the next year (hopefully).
1. 4168 sq. ft. Four bedrooms, 3.5 baths, kitchen, living room, and den/playroom. It is not that many rooms; they are just big. We use every room every day.
2. Three kids.
3. No moving for us! We don't plan to have more kids, but we would have room for more as long as the kids shared bedrooms.
It is not uncommon for us to have 4 or 5 (or more) little boys running around here at any given time, and I know that soon enough we will have half a dozen teenage boys hanging around more often than not, so I like having the space.
Post by hilwithonelary on Oct 20, 2014 18:32:23 GMT -5
2500 square feet +a big finished basement. It's huge, but I love it.
We have 4 beds (all upstairs) and 3.5 baths (2 up, 1/2 main, 1 basement). 1 bedroom is an office. We plan on making a guest space in the basement where it will be more private. We have an open kitchen/breakfast room/family room space. We also have a formal living room being used as a playroom and a formal dining room as a library. Besides being the guest space, the basement is also the place for large toys, exercise equipment , and our big TV.
Post by SallySparrow on Oct 20, 2014 18:33:10 GMT -5
2800 sq feet. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bath. I would like a 4th bedroom, but eh. We could be comfortable with one more baby here. If we wanted more, we might have to move. Or convert part of the finished basement into another bedroom. That might work.
We live in a ranch with a basement. We have 1000 square feet in the living space- 3bedrooms, one and a half baths. In the basement, there is a finished room with a full bath. We have one, and we are OAD. We could absolutely have another, although my husband disagrees. I grew up in a single wide trailer with four other people. This house feels like a mansion;)
3600sf, 5 bedrooms. It is bigger than our target sq footage but I won't deny that I like the extra space. One of the extra bedrooms is currently storage and will eventually be a child's bedroom, one extra bedroom is DH's office, and the 3rd extra bedroom is my office/out of season clothes storage/luggage, etc. We also have a formal dining and formal living (formal living is DD's playroom). It's big but it has a good layout and feels spacious but not too spread out.
Our current place is 4,000 sq feet with 5 bedrooms (6 if including the office, which could be) and 3 baths. Our new place is 3,4000 sq feet with 4 and a half baths. I don't anticipate needing to move due to size.
1500 ranch with a finished walk out basement, so 3000 total. I think it must be laid out well because even with just the upstairs I don't feel like it's too small even though it's small by most people's standards. I grew up in a tiny house though, so maybe that helps.
Two kids, no pets. Five bedrooms (three up, two down), three baths (two up, one down), large family room. No formal areas.
We have a lot of outside areas too which adds usable living space. We have a big covered front porch, covered deck we eventually will screen in and a covered pato below.
We have 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in 1800 sq ft plus 1800 unfinished sq ft in the basement. It's a lot smaller than I would like, but MH wants to finish the basement and live here forever.
1700 square feet. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, plus a sun room that we use as a playroom. We could fit another, especially while they were little, but I think we'd look for a little bit bigger house (4 bedroom at least!) if we had another.
We'll have 3 kids in a couple months and I wish we had a 4th bedroom and 2 full bathrooms.
We can all fit in this house but would be more comfortable with an extra bedroom. We won't move though because this is the school district we want and we can't afford a bigger house while staying within the district.
Post by thatgirl2478 on Oct 20, 2014 18:41:32 GMT -5
House is a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath with 1240 'official' square feet and an additional 600 sqft family room in the basement that can't be 'official' because of the various ratios of ceiling height to above ground space or something crazy like that.
We have 2 kids, we would not be comfortable if we had more kids. That would require room sharing with bunk beds (in relatively small rooms to begin with) and neither of us want to push room sharing on our kids.
Post by ginkgoleaf on Oct 20, 2014 18:41:45 GMT -5
We moved last year and our new house has 3400sf. It has 4 bedrooms, master bath, jack and Jill bath, and half bath. It's on 3 levels with a finished attic that is a playroom. It's definitely big enough for us now with 1 kid, a dog, and a cat. We wanted a "forever home" since we're ttc and hope to have 1-2 more kids, plus my parents visit often from out of state. My in-laws lived with us for 9 months shortly after we moved in and it was plenty of literal space (they had the whole third floor/bonus room, but no bathroom up there). It was personalities that we didn't have enough space for.
Old house was 1800sf, 3 bed, 2.5 bath, with bonus room.