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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in 2800 sq ft, and I find it small. But two kids will be out of the house soon, so it will be fine for DH and me. I looked at larger houses, but I thought all that space would depress me when the kids are in college.

DH and I lived in an 800 square foot house with one child, and it was fine.

Usually when people live in those huge 5K+ mcmansions, they actually "live" in the smaller rooms. Those enormous entries and huge great rooms just sit empty while everyone piles into the "office" or whatever they call the small room off the gigantic great room. Huge houses are not on a human scale.

My relatives raised 3 kids in a 1K square foot apartment in Manhattan. It always seemed huge to me, but that's because they kept the decor spare, and never acquired a lot of stuff like most Americans do. Plus the layout was really efficient. It was a prewar apartment with three bedrooms plus a maid's room. No giant family room, but they made do with the living room and a small entry hall for playspace. What you "need" is so relative to how you live. [/quote]

I'm not sure you know how the space is configured in larger homes today.  Part of the reason we have around 5,000 is precisely because there's no gigantic great room with a cathedral ceiling, and the foyer is very much on a human scale.  There are a lot of rooms, and you can't  be in two of them at the same time, but you can certainly take advantage of the space. [/quote]

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