Do you use every room every day?

[Anonymous]

If you use less than 60% of the house, consider downsizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1800 sq ft, 3 bedrooms, and we all hate the guest room and only go in there to get stuff out of the storage closet. I realize from this thread that I need to make the guest room more appealing so it's not wasted. We got stuck on the idea of having to have one, but maybe we should put in a Murphy bed and make it into something else that we can all enjoy.

Yes. Multipurpose.

[Anonymous]

I have a 2100 sf townhouse and there are two of us - parent and child. We don’t always use the lower level rec room, the third bedroom, and the two powder rooms every day. There’s just so many rooms two people can use on a work/school day.

[Anonymous]

We have a 1600 square foot house with 4 people and we use all rooms daily. I don’t see myself using the kids’ rooms after they move out, but my parents have a 3500 square foot house and they use all of their rooms daily too!

[Anonymous]

We use every room except for the guest room every day. Honestly the guest room could have doubled as an office but when we were shopping for a house, there were no homes for sale that met all our needs other than this one so now we have an office and a guest room separate.

[Anonymous]

We are a family of 4 in a 2500 sqft. Townhouse. 3br/4 bath with a rec room. We use all the rooms every day. The rec room houses my WFH office and workout space.
The only thing we don't use every day is the deck!

[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?

Lol. I feel like my house is quite big (2300 sqf plus a finished basement.) We have 4 kids, but three of them are now out of the house at least for most of the year (college and beyond college.) A few years ago, when they were all still living at home, yes-we used every room every day. Now that they are out of the house, we use every room except their bedrooms every day.

[Anonymous]

About 5,000 sq ft for a family of four. Most of the house goes unused.

[Anonymous]

Family of 4 in 3700 sq ft. Yes on weekdays, but the third floor is office space that doesn't see use on weekends/holidays.

[Anonymous]

Family of 6- 3000SF house. We use every room of our house every day. We sleep in 4 bedrooms, DH and I share an office, one of the kids does homework in the dining room, we relax in both the family room (with the tv) and the living room (no tv) and the kids relax in the rec room after homework. We also have a guest house. That does not get used every day but does get lived in when our oldest is home from college, grandma comes for 2 weeks at a time or we have house guests. We do think ahead to the day when all of the kids are out of the house and we don't use it all. But today is not that day.

[Anonymous]

We live in one of those open plan rowhomes, so yes, we use every room every day, because the only real rooms in the house are the bedrooms and bathrooms, which are all used. The giant living spaces are crossed all the time just passing to get to one side of the house to the other.

[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?

I rarely go into my finished basement and the bathroom down there, but I am in and out of the other rooms every day.

[Anonymous]

Yes; 2,200 sq foot rowhouse. 2 parents WFH (one 2 days in the office); one teen, one tween; one golden retriever and one cat. When we moved in before kids, the space felt giant. Over the years we’ve expanded to fit every inch. large empty spaces make me a bit sad and lonely. Not a judgement, just an emotion.