Are you happy with the size of your dwelling?

Thanks all for the kind words. Glinda, I wasn't trying to hijack your thread.:)
 

Louis said:
Thanks all for the kind words. Glinda, I wasn't trying to hijack your thread.:)
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Louis, don't even think such a thing! There's a big difference between letting the conversation move around a bit and "hijacking a thread". :)
 
No idea how many square feet our house is but we have 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, dining/living room in one, good size laundry room, kitchen is too small for a table which I'd love, wide hallway, loft the size of the house but you pull a ladder down to get up. There are no basements here. House is 88 years old.

I like the house but would love more room for guests. But I love our 1/2 acre garden, and adore our location facing a loch with a forest behind us.

Nope, not moving.
 

we have an old farm house small about a 1000 sq feet we added a room on the front 12 by 25 ......made it easy to have our five children plus spouses plus 12 grandchildren over at one time....bath and half just right for us.....
 
I'm rather obsessed with the tiny house movement. I couldn't live in 100 square feet or go up a ladder to a loft to sleep. But 300 square feet is very livable. I watch a lot of the videos on Youtube. I think tiny is considered 500 square feet or less. My one bedroom apartment is 600-something square feet. I don't use the living room.
 
Kitties said:
I'm rather obsessed with the tiny house movement. I couldn't live in 100 square feet or go up a ladder to a loft to sleep. But 300 square feet is very livable. I watch a lot of the videos on Youtube. I think tiny is considered 500 square feet or less. My one bedroom apartment is 600-something square feet. I don't use the living room.
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Kitties, I get a newsletter about tiny houses every morning. Drink my coffee, look at the current tiny houses and go into a "if only" trance. I too do not use all the rooms in my house. Only my tiny bedroom, bath and kitchen...and only sleep on 1/4 of my bed. So, I know that I too could live in a very tiny house.
 
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I live with one of my daughters and a grandson in a 3 bedroom one bathroom house, with a small conservatory on the back, I converted the garage into a home cinema some seven years ago and use it as a den/computer room as well.

I find the older I get the less space I seem to need, and could quite happily live in one room. This may be because I currently travel a lot, so am not here a lot of the time.
 
My place is little, so I'm real lucky I'm able to hold on to furnishings on both sides of rooms when I stumble thru it.
In case of emergency all I have to do is open the window or door and scream loudly- the many units and houses surrounding my small hole in the wall will hear it.
Fences everywhere you look are really discouraging to burglars, especially as many -due to age-are close to collapse.
Looking out of my lounge window, I'm continuously entertained by the changing colors of the roof of the nearby child minding centre.
With so many entertaining features, why would I ever want to move?
As hilarious and entertaining some day time activities can be, at 11 p.m. sharp, a deadly quiet descends, not a peep anywhere, you could practically hear a leaf drop, or a bit of paper rustle!
After all, no one wants the police turning up at one minute past 11 p.m.! :grin:
 
Somehow we in the UK seem to think that Americans live in huge houses, while we live in the smallest houses in Europe. However, from reading your posts it's obviously not that simple. It's true that a lot of new houses in the UK are small (c.900 sq ft) and have very little ground, but there seems to be a trend towards bigger (c.1800 sq ft) "executive houses" with very little ground!

My own house is about 1350 sq ft.and sits on 1/5 acre. It was built around 1830 and has relatively few, but biggish, rooms. Outside is another stone building of 300sq ft with my workshop and a utility room.
I consider that as 'Adequate'.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Somehow we in the UK seem to think that Americans live in huge houses, while we live in the smallest houses in Europe. However, from reading your posts it's obviously not that simple. It's true that a lot of new houses in the UK are small (c.900 sq ft) and have very little ground, but there seems to be a trend towards bigger (c.1800 sq ft) "executive houses" with very little ground!

My own house is about 1350 sq ft.and sits on 1/5 acre. It was built around 1830 and has relatively few, but biggish, rooms. Outside is another stone building of 300sq ft with my workshop and a utility room.
I consider that as 'Adequate'.
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The tiny house and garden is common here, but there are also lots of Victorian homes with 2 reception rooms. I'm not in a city or even a town so most of my neighbours have good size gardens and many have large homes.
 
I haven't clue how big my house is, it's quite small.....3 bedrooms, a dressing room, a largish livingroom, a galley kitchen 13 x 8 feet and bathroom and toilet... The back garden is about 100 feet long by 60 feet and the front lawn is open plan about 1/2 the size of the back ..this house is 60 years old. It's one of the smaller houses here, some are huge and cost well over a million pounds.. ( not mine tho') :D

I have a house in Spain which is just under a 1000 sq ft plus a community pool ...my daughter on the other hand has a larger property in the mountains regions of Spain with an added casita behind the main property which sits on 5 acres with almond groves
 
Since this thread is about size, I'd like to say I'm very happy with the size of my living space. It's not huge and it's not tiny, but it is home to me and I feel comfortable and it serves my purposes. I can swing my arms around the living room, do exercises, dance or twirl my baton without bumping into anything. Personally I like some empty space without stuff everywhere.
 
Cookie said:
Since this thread is about size, I'd like to say I'm very happy with the size of my living space. It's not huge and it's not tiny, but it is home to me and I feel comfortable and it serves my purposes. I can swing my arms around the living room, do exercises, dance or twirl my baton without bumping into anything. Personally I like some empty space without stuff everywhere.
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Same here, Cookie, (only I don't have a baton to twirl..lol) I only have 2 bedrooms, 2 baths but the rooms are fairly good size and it is home sweet home, now if I could only downsize this yard...:)
 
ndynt said:
Kitties, I get a newsletter about tiny houses every morning. Drink my coffee, look at the current tiny houses and go into a "if only" trance. I too do not use all the rooms in my house. Only my tiny bedroom, bath and kitchen...and only sleep on 1/4 of my bed. So, I know that I too could live in a very tiny house.
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I don't use my living room either. I usually just walk through it to go out to my patio area. Right now I have my laundry drying out there. Some of those tiny houses are not cheap. There was a TV program on one. where the potential buyers balked because you had to go through the kitchen or bathroom to get from the living room to the bedroom. A strange layout yes, but I saw a continuous racetrack for my cats when they wanted to play and chase. I thought it was awesome and about 300 square feet. The people didn't choose that one. I would have. For the cats. The price on that one was reasonable too.

Capt Lightening, I think that idea is from the McMansions that have been built here. There certainly is that mentality of needing to own a huge space. Keep up with the neighbors. The neighborhood beyond my apartment complex has some larger houses with immaculate yards. They can have it. Makes me shudder just to look at those places. And again while I like the tiny house movement, being a homebody 100 square feet and a ladder can't work for me.
 

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