What is it like to live in a large house?
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Anonymous
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Speaking of the Beverly Hills housewives, what is life in a large home like? Do larger homes feel warm/comfortable?
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Anonymous
| No. Every larger home feels cold and clammy. Every single one. |
Anonymous
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I've been in large homes that feel warm and inviting and in small homes that feel cold and unwelcoming. I have been in large homes that are cold and unwelcoming and small homes that are warm and inviting.
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Anonymous
| yes, large homes feel warm and comfortable provided you have certain kinds of padding under the carpeting and use green rated heat pumps and/or a gas furnace. |
Anonymous
| OP is asking what it is like to LIVE in a large house. Not visit one. |
Anonymous
| Isn't this subjective? What constitutes a "larger home" OP? Besides - it really depends on the home and what the owners have done with it. |
Anonymous
I personally like it. It may not be for everyone. My house is painted in colors that make it warm. The furniture is comfortable and cozy and I have had many people say they like to just "chill" at my house. While I like to think my house is warm, I am of course biased. I have been told that it is though...for whatever that is worth. Our house is approximately 7,000sf on 2 acres of land. So it's large, but not large by Beverly Hills Housewives standards. |
Anonymous
7000 sq. ft? Are you out of your mind? |
Anonymous
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Interesting thread. What do big-home dwellers DO with all that space?? (Say....more than 3500sqft for a family of 4). Do you really use all your rooms?
Signed somone who lives in a 2000sqft home with family of 4... |
Anonymous
What's the reason for the assholish response? If you're concerned about wastefulness or a negative environmental impact, why not say that instead of insulting the PP by asking if she's out of her mind? I live in a tiny apartment that's like 1/14 of the size of the PP's home, but the ridiculous bitchiness is out of control on this forum. |
Anonymous
| OP here- yes to LIVE in a large home (day to day life) and by warm, I mean inviting. In particular, homes with large open spaces. I have lived in apartments, so really any house would be large. But by large, I would say any house where people would visit for the first time and say, "Wow, this house is large, huge, etc...". |
Anonymous
Then stop reading, Think Skin. 7000 sq. ft. is going overboard. I can't express my thoughts? |
Anonymous
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I grew up in a large house, and even as a kid, wasn't completely comfortable. It WAS hard to heat (and it was designed with ease of heating in mind-- passive solar and whatnot) but it was the big spaces I didn't like. My parents spent lots of time in the three-story living room with the greenhouse walls; I always preferred the smaller, wood-paneled study.
When it came time to choose my own house, I went for an older, more traditionally-scaled and designed one. |
Anonymous
Start spell checking. If you think 7,000 square feet is going overboard, why don't you state the reasons why instead of being snarky? Maybe you'd actually give others something meaningful to think about instead of just bitchiness. Of course you can express your thoughts, just like I can respond to them. |
Anonymous
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OP - this depends on soooo many factors.
FWIW, I think we live in a large home (at least by my standards) - about 3,700 sq. ft plus an unfinished basement. But I also think if feels warm and inviting (at least most of the rooms do) as we have a large family and the rooms are - for the most part - all utilized. I find that the homes that feel "cold" to me are the ones where there are rooms upon rooms that are rarely used. |