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[quote=Anonymous]The square footage isn’t what really matters to me.  It’s the space.  I think like you - I only want the amount of space I will use and I am really happy that we use every room of our house.  But honestly, we could do with a few of the rooms being smaller than they are.

We have three kids and they each have/had their own bedrooms, albeit small ones.  We have two and a half baths - one for kids, one for parents and the half for convenience and guests.  We have an extra bedroom that I use for my art studio, which is a necessity for my personal satisfaction with life.  And we have a family room where we have things like a pool table.   That allowed our house to become the hangout house during those years when you want to know what your kids are doing (and, in all fairness, beyond because my college aged kid regularly entertains in that space.  We have no guest room and I am just fine with that.  We don’t have overnight guests often enough to have bought a bigger house.  Someone just gives up a bedroom or we use air mattresses in the family room.

The rooms that are too big are our living room, dining room and kitchen, which is why I think it’s the space, not the square footage that matters.  To get the rooms that we wanted, the house came with large shared space.  And, I think our kids loved that they were large because they have had great parties using this space.

I have found through the years that some rooms didn’t get used very much.  The family room is one of those rooms.  Also, we have a section of the master bedroom that has a couch and chairs.  When the kids were little we used it all the time for family reading - both the 20 required minutes per day and the family reading to each other.  But once they hit their teens, it stopped getting used so much.  [/quote]

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