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[quote=Anonymous]We have 2200 sf (4 br/2.5 ba) with no basement, but an attic over our garage.  It could use 1 or 2 more rooms (I would love a room for our exercise equipment), but as we keep clearing out the little kid crap, we are making more closet and attic space available.  We can certainly live in this space fairly comfortably.  Our home lacks a decent entryway, mudroom and laundry room, but that is a layout problem rather than square footage.

My childhood home was a tiny ranch house (3 br/1ba) with a gigantic finished basement that was our rec area.  We moved into a larger home when I was a teen that was about the size of our current house with a large unfinished basement that was basically a dumping area.  My husband lived in small houses with no basements (they just aren’t a thing where he grew up due to flooding issues), so we aren’t upset with no basement as long as we have a storage space somewhere (which is how we use our attic).  My family has pack rat tendencies and I am trying not to be so bad.  Not having an enormous space to fill with junk helps.  I have enough clutter now - I can’t imagine how much crap we’d have in a bigger space.

I am with many other posters saying 2500 is a sweet spot.[/quote]

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