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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes I grew half my life in a ~6000sq ft house on 5 acres.
Yes its cold and expensive to heat. We never used foyer, foyer bathroom, formal dining room, formal living room, library,4 acres of the land but still cut the grass. It was the worst thing that ever happened to our family because it was making us house poor , everyone had their own wing that they stayed in the majority of the time. The only thing i loved was the time (years ) we spent searching for the perfect house (marble open foyer, hardwood, privacy, big kid bedrooms,3car garage,open family room,pond. It was ahuge jump from our rambler on 1 acre.Cleaning and maintaing was a nightmare $600/mo elctricity, hard water, FFX prop tax, HOA.

I will never live in anything over 2000sqft[/quote]

I think the amount of use the rooms get depends on the family's lifestyle, age of children, etc. At my parent's house, the formal living room is used daily b/c it's my mother's favorite place to read and write (she still keeps a written calendar :) My father preferred reading in the library - I think he was hiding from a house full of women. I hung out in the family room with my friends. The formal dining room was used at least twice a week, one family dinner, and one take out dinner. The other times were when my we (my parents, my sister, and/or I) had friends over at dinner time. It got lots of use because it was a big accommodating space. We weren't a "formal" family at all. The house is also old and the layout was different from today's houses. All the rooms were compartmentalized, so maybe that's why they got used more often[/quote]

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