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I don't like huge sprawling rooms on an everyday basis.  I like to sit in a cozy den sized room in the evening.  We have a fairly large house, but find ourselves never using the living room and dining room, three of the bedrooms and two bathrooms.  Our son is at college and we are basically living in the kitchen (large), den sized TV room, master bedroom and master bath (and half bath near TV room).  We virtually never go in the finished basement.

Sure, it's nice to have the other rooms when people visit (and we use the living room for Christmas once a year.   I don't think we'll move quite yet (moving is a hassle and we like our yard).  But eventually we will get something smaller.  [/quote]

We're in a similar situation where we never use the dining room and the living room is empty.  However, [b]we wanted a certain sized MBR, kitchen and family room and in order to get that size we had to buy a 3,600 sq. foot house[/b].   [/quote]

I thins is a smaller original house with a blowout addition, making the kitchen and family room bigger on the main level and making the master bedroom, MBR bigger on the upper level. Ideally, the previous owners did it and had good taste![/quote]

Nah, it's a regular ol' 90s colonial Stanley Martin tract home.  The MBRs on the 2,400 sq. ft. houses that we looked at were just smaller than we wanted.[/quote]

OP Here.  This is what is pushing us towards a larger house.  We have large extended family in the area that we would like to have over a lot (20+ people at a time) and a great circle of friends (12+ people at a time), and we would really like a large kitchen and family room because that's where everyone hangs out.  If the house had a completely open layout, I think we could certainly be comfortable in a much smaller home.  But since we are looking at a bit older homes (the new homes in the area we are looking have much smaller backyards), to get the size kitchen + family room we want we're looking at nearly 6,000sq ft and the formal dining and living would probably go unused (unless we can think of a different use for those rooms...)[/quote]

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