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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends! Ten years ago with a toddler, I would have said 3000 sq ft was insane, because we were doing great on 1500.  Fast forward, and he is a man sized 12 year old, and more importantly DS and I both work from home in very intense zoom-heavy jobs, and our 3000 sf house is not enough (and has a bad layout to boot). I spend 60 hours a week working, and I don't want to have to co-locate my office into the master bedroom or my son's dirty hangout tv room. We also both workout from home. We constantly use every inch of our house.  We are looking to do a Reno and addition. [/quote]

You’re saying 3000 isn’t enough for 3 people? I’m in a 2600 sf home with 3 people (teenage son) and we have so much space. 4 bedrooms gives us an office, a guest room (with desk), and a sunroom (which is where I generally work). [/quote]

It's layout dependent, and use dependent.

We have four bedrooms, and the rest of our house is basically one big open space (subdivided into different zones - dining, living room, tv room).  The four bedrooms are: master, son's room, son's old playroom now tv room, and my husband's office.  That means I (a work from home attorney making seven figures a year) have a laptop in the open concept main room and scramble from room to room for zoom calls when son gets home from school.  We want a separate room for my son's tv/playroom because his bedroom isn't big enough to handle it all and we don't want a tv in his bedroom - and we don't want him watching tv in the main room when mom and dad are hanging out quiet time. Also as mentioned, DH and I since age 45 have both incorporated a really intensive workout routine that we are going 5-years strong on. That consumes half of our garage (which doesn't have a/c).  We don't have the time nor inclination to go to a gym, and I feel like if the workout system works well for us, we should embrace it.

Also you say four bedrooms gives you an office (1), guest room (2), sunroom (3) and then presumably a master bedroom (4).... so where does you third person sleep?  I think you mean you have four bedrooms plus a bonus or extra room of some sort.  We don't have the extra room. We don't even have an extra nook.

Point being, yes 3000 sf seemed like an insane amount to us with a toddler.  And when we bought this house we thought it would be plenty. But with the layout of our home, all of our spaces are heavily used and we are constantly on top of each other.  [/quote]

I’m sure layout makes a big difference. We also work out in the garage, fwiw. We have a master bedroom, our teen son’s room, a dedicated office, and a guest room (that’s the four bedrooms), plus a sunroom, which I work in a lot and which also has a tv. I could really just live in there, honestly. I don’t make 7 figures, but I don’t really like being in the office all day. I just move my laptop around to wherever I feel like being. When my husband works at home he usually just sets up in the dining room. We then also have a separate family room and a separate living room, and then the sunroom, which makes three separate spaces for tv if we all wanted to be alone watching tv.

People hate on split levels, but I really love everything about ours. [/quote]

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