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I think 1400-1600 square feet particularly in an indoor/outdoor state like FL is perfect for a family of four. I live in Brooklyn and there are upscale families of four in my building with less square footage. However it's a pre-war building so the layout works - enter into the shared living space plus kitchen (sometimes a dining room too) then the bedroom and bathroom (s) are off down a hall. Generally lots of light. None of my neighbors in those spaces seem to feel cramped. My Aunt and Uncle raised two kids in about 700 square feet and it worked - the layout was great.

This house though. The layout is dire, they have set it up so there's no flow and as usual their decor choices are off-scale and the aesthetic is a miss. I think they will stay in FL - they have always skewed beach-esque and this move was just admitting it. BUT the choice was a miss. Should have just razed the thing, gotten an architect and started over.

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Agreed 100%, I grew up living in tiny apartments and condos as a kid, and we were a family of 5 making it work. The homes and apartments were small but at least had some kind of flow and we didn't try to fill the space with out of scale furniture. The upsidedown home (living space upstairs and bedrooms downstairs) is a classic old school beach home layout on the Jersey shore, with the point being that you can get beach views everyone can enjoy from the top floor. The YHL beach house has no beach views so the layout doesn't make sense even in the "classic beach house" realm. There isn't even a stair off the upper deck that would allow some kind of flow with their yard or pool. At this point, their outside deck makes zero sense with the pool being where it is ... so you go make your lunch in the kitchen downstairs, go up to the second floor deck to enjoy eating outside, then go back down to go back to the pool? What? Why would you ever even use that deck??[/quote]

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