Do you use every room every day?

[Anonymous]

1100sf plus finished basement, and yes, for the most part. The only rooms I’d say I maybe don’t use every day would be our laundry room, basement family room, and basement bathroom.

[Anonymous]

2000 sq ft 3 bedroom/3 bath. Family of four.

Yes, every room every day.

[Anonymous]

We just moved out of Bethesda from a house that size OP. We hardly ever used the formal living room. We used the family room, kitchen, dining room, study, bathrooms and everyone used their own bedroom. But the formal living room just sat there gathering dust. I think a lot was to do with the pandemic and not having people over in the same way.

We now live in a slightly smaller house, 2000 sq ft single story (without a large, formal living room at all) and we do indeed use every room every day.

[Anonymous]

1400 sq feet row house in the city. Family of 3. Yes except the guest room but we use that room as storage for a few things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1500 sq ft, two kids, definitely.

+1. Every room, every day.

[Anonymous]

1600 sq foot rowhouse (and sq feet includes the finished basement), family of 4. Generally yes, every room every day except there may be a few days nobody goes in the basement if no laundry and no kids play down there without time after school. But every week, yes, because we do laundry and kids toys downstairs.

Looking at 1800-2400 sq foot SFHs in the burbs where the sq footage does NOT include the basement and they seem luxurious to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a relatively small house (2600 sq ft plus an unfinished basement) and we use every single room every single day. We have 3 kids and have a 4 bedroom/2.5 bath house with one full time work from home spouse and one who works partially at home.

I think about my dads house that is 4600 sq ft that he lives in with his wife. They will sometimes go a month without going upstairs! Master is on the first floor and he only uses like 40% of the house on a given day.

Do you use your whole house? Or do some rooms sit untouched for days?

You sound judgy. What difference does it make to you? And yes, I use every room every day. Where is my prize?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1100sf plus finished basement, and yes, for the most part. The only rooms I’d say I maybe don’t use every day would be our laundry room, basement family room, and basement bathroom.

+1, this is us too, except our laundry room is in the basement and I do a load every day. 3 kids. Lol at a 2000+ sq ft house being smallish.

[Anonymous]

3000 sq ft sfh, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths. Every thing is used every day. 4 adults.

One finished basement with gym, family room, bathroom, bedroom. DH uses it every day to WFH and also we entertain there.

The main living area has several seating areas and somehow, we all spread out every where.

[Anonymous]

We have a large house with a guest bedroom suite in the basement that we rarely use. During a recent renovation we discovered a largish space under the stairs that had been walled in. We turned it into a proper little room and are using it for storage. I went in there every day at first to soak in the “secret room” vibes, but probably only go there once or twice a month now.

[Anonymous]

Yes of course.

4bed/3bath, dining room, kitchen, and living room. No basement

Family of five

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a relatively small house (2600 sq ft plus an unfinished basement) and we use every single room every single day. We have 3 kids and have a 4 bedroom/2.5 bath house with one full time work from home spouse and one who works partially at home.

I think about my dads house that is 4600 sq ft that he lives in with his wife. They will sometimes go a month without going upstairs! Master is on the first floor and he only uses like 40% of the house on a given day.

Do you use your whole house? Or do some rooms sit untouched for days?

We used to use all rooms when kids were growing up (like you) but now they are all grown and moved out and use no more than 1/3 (like your parents). It will happen to you too. Don't worry.

[Anonymous]

No, not even close. Our house is 2600 sqft not including basement - we probably use 25% of that every day. Just me and DH, trying for kids but none yet. 5 beds / 3.5 baths plus main floor office, formal LR, sunroom, dining room, den and basement. Tbh the emptiness makes me sad as it’s a reminder we still don’t have kids - but we bought it for a steal off market and keep telling each other we’ll live here for 30 years and grow into it.

[Anonymous]

2000 square foot house, no kids, two adults who work from home - and yes, we use every room every day.

Our guest room - which would otherwise be the room we don't use a lot - doubles as storage and a pantry.

[Anonymous]

No, three of us in 4k sq ft. It’s more than we need, especially this time of year when I think about heating. But this is the first house I’ve ever lived in in which we don’t use every room daily. I try to walk through the unused rooms once a week to check for anything out of the ordinary, like a roof leak.