How big is the algore's house?
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 04:35 PM
frazzled (8,869 posts)
10. 5000 square feet for two people seems like ...
way more square feet than is good for two people to live in, whatever one's income. I say that not with malice but with advice to a young couple: too much space breeds distance, not togetherness. Unless of course, you end up just using the 1500 or so square feet in which you eat, sleep, and lounge. What you do with the rest is your business. But then don't talk to us about ecological matters or global warming. (Or income inequality.)
Oh how I rue the day I bought my home. I bought on what I could afford with out giving thought to the future. Should have bought on need at the time. Two of us, livingroom, kitchen big kitchen, bedroom with private bath, laundry room, 1/2 bath. All we needed at that time and all we need today.
To go back in time I would have bought half the home we did. Too big for just us two plus with 2 extra bedrooms and a family room, for 15 years we had family moving in and out one adult stayed 14 years !!
All these years we gave up our privacy to family on both sides moving in and out. Result is 1/3 of our home is now used for storage, Over night visitors best bring a sleeping bag and sleep on the carpet.
Cost to heat and cool unused rooms is huge, lots of problems that if we down sized to smaller quarters would solve.
Reason I have been looking into the micro homes. I would give up a second bedroom for a wrap around porch or a half bath for a full cellar to turn into storage.
To each their own for us average people, higher low class those making under $60,000 a year for two.
Things were different in the past when I needed a home for 2 boys and two girls. We needed lots of room but today with no one but Hubby and I, heck we could live most well in an Airstream and if we did not like the neighbors, we could move on.
