how many people really live in a 8000sqft house?
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
Hmmm - 6500 sq ft house here. 2 kids, 1 small dog. Some rooms I only visit weekly just to make sure nothing has sprung a leak. |
Anonymous
6500 sq ft. - His office - Her office - Home gym - 2 large storage rooms the size of bedrooms - Home theatre - Downstairs Bar/Pool Room |
Anonymous
|
9000SF 7BR 7FB 2HFBA- Family of 4 + nanny. We started smaller but wanted large bedrooms, large walkins, lots of storage rooms and a bathroom for each bedroom and a 3 car garage.
Upstairs: Master is Bedroom 1 Bedrooms 2 and 3 are each for the kids Bedroom 4 is a playroom Bedroom 5 is a guest room First Floor: Family Room Living Room Bedroom 6 is an office that can be a bedroom for elderly Powder room off the mudroom Basement Bedroom 7 is the nanny's Rec Room, wet bar and game room Home Theater Room Work out room Basement Powder Room |
Anonymous
sorry forgot the kitchen Upstairs: Master is Bedroom 1 Bedrooms 2 and 3 are each for the kids Bedroom 4 is a playroom Bedroom 5 is a guest room First Floor: Kitchen Kitchen eating nook Butler Pantry Dining Room Family Room Living Room Bedroom 6 is an office that can be a bedroom for elderly Powder room off the mudroom Deck and Screen Porch to the pool Basement Bedroom 7 is the nanny's Rec Room, wet bar and game room Home Theater Room Work out room Basement Powder Room |
Anonymous
| After DH divorces me I'll be in 8500 sqft alone. |
Anonymous
| I do! Or wait a minute your not including the lot are you? |
Anonymous
|
My ILs in CA "downsized" from 7500 sq ft to just under 6000 and my FIL moans about the loss of space. It's just the two of them. No pets.
Of course, if I lived with my FIL I'd want that much space too so I could hide. We have 3600 with 4 people here and we don't use several rooms more than a couple times a year. |
Anonymous
| I would think for a house that size that grandparents/some other extended family live there (or visit half the year). Otherwise it's just a pain in terms of upkeep. |
Anonymous
If you don't live in certain rooms you don't have to clean them every week |
Anonymous
Essentially it's all about luxury and imitating the lifestyles of the wealthy, e.g. having a separate room for every activity, having dedicated guest rooms that serve no other purpose, multiple recreation rooms, office for each adult, even if they don't work from home. If you have money, I get it, you also pay someone to clean. |
Anonymous
Butler's supersize room? An average self respecting butter is too tired to excresize, and an average self respecting Potomac owner owner is too cheap to have a buttler. |
Anonymous
|
My parents have a 10,000 SF home in Potomac. It doesn't seem "too big" IMHO, but maybe that's cause I grew up in it and it just seems to be the right size for us? I don't know. (We do always have a constant stream of guests from our home country so the house is never empty / unused)
Main Floor: Foyer Powder Room Formal Living Room Library Family Room Sun Room Kitchen Formal Dining Room Pantry / Storage Room Office (Additional Bedroom if we have lots of guests) Mud Room Laundry Room Full Bathroom Upstairs Wing 1: Master Bedroom w/ Spa Bathroom Bedroom 2 for Me w/ 3 Walk-In Closets and Spa Bathroom Upstairs Wing 2: Bedroom 3 for Middle Sister w/ Library and Spa Bathroom Bedroom 4 Youngest Sister w/ Darkroom and Spa Bathroom Basement: Bedroom 5 for Guests Bedroom 6 for Guests Home Theater Room Dance Floor Secondary Kitchen Secondary Family Room Secondary Dining Area Bar Gym Full Bathroom I do love that my parents let us each have a huge spa bathroom and allowed us to add one thing we love to our space. I'm a shopper and was going through my "Clueless" phase so I went w/ tons of closet space. My middle sister is a voracious reader so she had a huge library area added to her room and my youngest sister is into photography so she had a darkroom added in with a little gallery area. Even as adults we still appreciate these areas when we come home. |
Anonymous
|
We have 6800 SF with one kid.
It's big but we don't notice it. Two offices, large LR, Fam Room and Kitchen, DR - 5 BR - finished basement, exercise room etc. Generally the same number of rooms and uses as our last house which was 5000 or so, everything is just a little larger. Other than the guest bedrooms we touch every part of it throughout the week. This is the part of the area we want to live in and the house is normal sized for the neighborhood we wanted so that was the key decision point to getting more house than we needed. |
Anonymous
| 10,000 sqft for our family of six, three generations. We were fine in a 6000sqft home, and certainly squeezed in a 2000sqft one without going crazy. We are flexible, but the larger home is nice, not gonna lie. |
Anonymous
No gift-wrapping room? |