Sweet spot of square feet for a family of 5?
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Anonymous
| How many square feet do you think is perfect for a family of 5? Meaning not too ginormous, not too small? In your perfect world. |
Anonymous
| 800 square feet a person so 4,000 sq. Feet. May depend on the kids ages. I’d want at least theee full Bathrooms. |
Anonymous
This sounds about right to me. |
Anonymous
You can easily do 4 bed / 3.5 bath in 2500 Sq ft |
Anonymous
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Think about how many home offices you need, guest bedrooms, and space for hobbies and kids to play.
We have 5,000 for a family of 4 and it feels right. |
Anonymous
I'm guessing you also claim to be middle class. |
Anonymous
| Our entire house is 800 square feet. I'd say 3000-3500. Nice to stay together. |
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Anonymous
| Family of five and our whole house is 1000 sq feet. I’d love more room. |
Anonymous
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Let me offer some notes on what we’ve experienced.
We lived in 1800ish. Not enough. We live now in 4000-4500. Too much for me. Great on spreading out space, great for guests (both overnight visitors and party guests). Too much for us to clean and maintain. Not necessary. Btw, the sqft on Zillow shows as 3500, but I’ve totalled the appraisal including basement which is mostly finished. The house I wanted to get, but DH had good reason for wanting this one, and it worked out in a crazy real estate summer…. The house I wanted is 2,700. No basement, so that should be accurate. It wouldn’t be quite big enough for spreading out and guests. But much easier for us to maintain. |
Anonymous
Sorry! The last paraphrase was terribly written. I wanted the 2700 sqft house. It’s in the next neighborhood over. So I still think about it 
We had an In on this home. Part of the negotiation was a rentback, which we were able to do. It was a crazy summer that year. Hot sellers market and it was hard to get into a home. The houses were listed the same, DH’s choice was bigger which was a plus for him. He is right that it’s helping us as we begin the teenage years. I wanted the same cost of home, newer, easier to maintain. He won out because of the rentback question made it easy to secure the home. We actually put an offer on each at the same time! Negotiations stopped once we got in on this house. I don’t think the other owners were going to choose us anyway. |
Anonymous
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4,000. We've had both 4,300 5BR/4.5 BA + office and 4,100 4BR/4.5BA + office with our family of 5.
With 4,300 it was over 3 levels and not every room was used on a daily basis. Our current 4,100 SF house is all one level and every room is used on a daily basis. |
Anonymous
| So much depends on layout, work from home needs, and acceptable size of bedrooms/owners' space. Anywhere from 2500sf to 4000sf. |
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According to Zillow our house is 3000 sf but I’m never sure if that includes the basement or not. I think it’s all in how the space is used. I wish our kids bedrooms were a bit bigger but our master bedroom was smaller, our master bath was smaller, and we had more closets. I don’t know why they put so much square footage into master suites — we don’t have toys or trophies or endless crap like the kids do. I swear I could do aerobics in our master bath. Why?? But there’s not a great way to slice off any of the space to give to the kids.
Our problem house hunting was that the third kids bedroom was always tiny tiny. If you have boy girl boy it doesn’t work well to share rooms long term. The age gap between the same sex kids is too far apart. |
Anonymous
| I don’t think square footage matters as much as layout. I would want 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a dining room, eat in kitchen, and 1-2 smaller rooms that can be used as guest room/offices. |