How big is your house (# of rooms and square footage)? Â
How many kids do you have?Â
Will you need to move to be comfortable if you have more kids?Â
*brought to you by a client asking me if we wanted to buy their home but I think it might be too big for us*
4300sf We have 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. We have two spare bedrooms that aren't used that often but I like being able to give family and friends actual space when they come. One bedroom is my craft room. We have one child. DH has an office downstairs. The only room we don't really use is our dining room. The formal living room is the playroom right now till we finish our basement.
Post by barefootcontessa on Oct 20, 2014 19:25:33 GMT -5
3700 sq. ft., no basement or garage. 5 bedrooms (one used as a craft room) and 3 full baths. 5 kids. In addition to the master, two of the bedrooms are large and house two kids each. My baby has her own room. We renovated the house and added onto it to make it fit for our family. It is not ideal but it functions quite well. We have a large yard.
Post by cherry1111 on Oct 20, 2014 19:27:30 GMT -5
1644 sq ft, 3 bed, 2 bath. No basement.
1 kid. It's enough space now but I'd like a little more storage room. We likely won't move until we are done with kids in daycare (so another 7ish years if things go as planned). 2 kids will feel tight but I know people do it with much less space and many more kids.
Post by suburbanzookeeper on Oct 20, 2014 19:31:19 GMT -5
Just under 1700sqft 3BD/2BA - we're in Southern California so a basement isn't an option to add on. It suits us fine since we're done having kids although I would have loved a 4th bedroom to make the office more private than it is now.
1200 square feet, 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath with two kids. I don't need anything bigger. Cleaning more bathrooms makes me twitchy. I might change my mind about that when the girls are older though and we are all trying to get ready in the morning.
1196, 4 kids, 2 small dogs in a 3 bedroom and 1 bath. We will be moving within the next few years as this was a steal of a house and we figured we would buy and sell later to make some cash. <script type="text/javascript" src="safari-extension://com.ebay.safari.myebaymanager-QYHMMGCMJR/2b7279d/background/helpers/prefilterHelper.js"></script>
Post by Ashley&Scott on Oct 20, 2014 19:40:27 GMT -5
1600 sq ft - 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. I don't think we would move if we had another baby but more space would be nice. Our basement isn't finished so there's always the potential to do that.
About 2900 sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, 2 kids, no pets.
We wouldn't need more space with more kids, but I wish our space was divided differently to make the house more functional. (The room in the "right" place to be the guest bedroom is HUGE while one of the main rooms is small and arranged poorly, leaving barely enough room for a twin bed & dresser. We also have a really odd dead space between the kitchen and living room that is worthless for anything other than collecting junk.) When we move, I don't want much (if any) more space, but I will pay A LOT closer attention to the floor plan and room sizes.
How big is your house (# of rooms and square footage)? 3,000 square feet if you include the finished basement - 2,000 without basement. 3 bedrooms 2.5 baths
How many kids do you have? 1
Will you need to move to be comfortable if you have more kids? No, but if a guest stays over they will need to sleep in the basement and/or on the first floor. We only plan to have 2 children.
2300 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 3 bath. Just one kid so far, could be a couple more eventually. We have no local family, so one bedroom (with private bath) is the guest room one is DD's, and one is my office (I work from home fulltime). When we have another, I'll give up my office and use the dining room instead.
Post by wanderlustmom on Oct 20, 2014 19:53:36 GMT -5
2,500 square feet, traditional colonial four up and four down, 2.5 bath and a bonus room over the garage--no basement, one acre lot. We have an older house and I used to put it down. Now I love it-- it's like the right for you boyfriend that takes awhile to recognize. And we have two kids but could have three. The original owners had four.
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!
I love your house so much. I want you to AW it way more!!
This is not a post I want to win with the smallest house
Where are the other ppl that live in a box?
Oh, I've got your back on this one.
We live in a 500 sq ft apartment - 1.5 bedroom, 1 bathroom, and exactly 1 closet.
We're currently 2 adults, 1 kid, soon to be 2 kids.
I gave my husband a 3 year commitment to NYC and we don't plan to leave this apartment during that time, although I wouldn't exactly say it's going to be comfortable (but it will be fine).We love our neighborhood and aren't willing to pay any more than we do now. More kids are on the table, but not while we live here.
When we lived in Covent Garden in London, DH and I lived in 380 sq feet. It was tight, but fine for two working professionals. It's amazing what you don't actually need!! We think we saved so much $$$ by living there! We never bought excess stuff that we didn't need.
12something sq ft for two adults, one toddler, and two indoor dogs-3 bedrooms 1.75 bathrooms (the downstairs bathroom has a shower stall but no bathtub). I think if we could stay on top of purging stuff we'd be okay staying here for a good long time but the lack of basement is going to be what eventually does us in assuming we have a second kid.
We have about 2000 square feet (3 bedrooms). We have two kids and a hypothetical third may follow in a couple years. We "could" make it work if we have the boys share a room, but I think we will outgrow this house and likely move in a few years.
Post by catsarecute on Oct 20, 2014 20:02:29 GMT -5
2300 sq ft. 3 bedrooms (and a loft) 2.5 baths. 1 kid, 1 cat. I think we would be fine if we were to have another kid. We would lose the guest room but we don't have guests anyways.
Post by oregonpachey on Oct 20, 2014 20:02:54 GMT -5
720 sq ft. 2 kids who share a room. It is too small but it wouldn't be that bad if my husband didn't border on hoarded territory. The entire house is clean, organized and tidy and then there is his computer area. I should take picture.
Maybe when we can afford to move, we might double our space but I doubt much bigger than that.
Post by fortmyersbride on Oct 20, 2014 20:04:25 GMT -5
About 4500 sq ft finished space. We have 5bdr, an office/den, and 5.5 bath. Technically the exercise room in the basement could be a 6th bdr. We have playroom areas in the basement and the second floor loft, which are a huge part of the appeal of our house.
Soon we'll have three kids and we'll be just fine here. I *think* we're done at three, but I can't say that 4 is completely out of the question. At some point the kids may share a room(s) so we can have an au pair when they're older.
If we move it wouldn't be b/c of the kids it would be to shorten DH's commute or have an IL suite type set-up for an au pair.
2 adults, 1 kid, 1 dog. 2400, 4 br/4 baths, unfinished basement, plus a mudroom that we converted from a small bedroom . We bought a year ago and our old house was 1400 plus 500 finished basement plus another unfinished basement, 3 br/2.5 baths.
Out old house was plenty big for just one kid but we wanted to move to a different part of town and potentially have my parents live with us for a couple years. We'll see about that one because that space is now the playroom and we love it.
1200 sq ft? Only 1 kid, room for another. We have a finished basement so when we have a second kid we will move the guest room down there.
We are toying with the idea of moving in the next couple of years. I really like our house and our neighborhood but the layout of our house is not ideal. It's technically 4 different levels and that makes it hard to use a lot of the space we have.