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[quote=Anonymous]My DH and I live in a largeish house.--about 4500 square feet.  We don't have any kids yet.  Our plan was to buy a house before we have kids, have time to settle in, and get good at managing a household (for me), and have time to decorate it, because I know once we start having kids I won't have time for interior decorating.  Managing a household of this size has been challenging for me.  We don't have a cleaning service, and I will admit I am overwhelmed by the cleaning.  I clean about two hours a day (including laundry), and I never feel that the place is clean or even that neat.

We spent about a year house hunting.  What I like about the house is that even though it's largeish, it doesn't feel cold.  It feels warm and cozy.  I specifically did not want a house with a two-story foyer, because that feels cavernous and cold to me.  Same thing with a two-story family room.  So our house has neither.  It doesn't have a sunroom or a large eating area or a screened in porch.  The bathrooms are quite small.  Although it has a decent square footage, the rooms are all on the small side, which adds to the coziness.  At first I was concerned that the house would feel empty since we don't have kids, in terms of having all these spare bedrooms with nothing in them.  The house has 5 bedrooms.  Besides the master and the guest room, which is fully furnished as a guest room (and which DH sleeps in due to snoring problems), we use two bedrooms for storage and the other is for the cats' litter boxes (we have four cats).  Having empty bedrooms (except for storage) doesn't bother me at all or make the house seem empty.  In fact DH and I feel that we pretty much use every room.  [/quote]

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