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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have almost 3000 ft for three of us. It’s not so much the size but the way some of the space is ill-designed. For instance, we have a giant master suite with a semi-separate sitting area. That space is unused, while the kids’ bedrooms could use a little more square footage. [/quote]

Layout is everything. Our best friends lived in Berlin for the last decade and recently moved back and are really frustrated by how poorly laid out everything is here. They lived in an apartment in Berlin (as most people do) and never felt crunched for space. They did not have a huge kitchen or big closets, but the actual living spaces were laid out just right -- the apartments there are designed for family living, entertaining.

Here, everything is designed for like one person to live in it. Here is your enormous master bathroom, here is your huge walk in closet. But then the second and third bedroom are charmless boxes. The kitchen is massive but somehow not conducive to cooking. Everything is open concept so there is never anywhere to just go read or have a quite conversation if someone is watching TV nearby. And the newer builds are the worst.

We live in a 2-bedroom house (1 kid) and have looked at bigger homes because we'd like more outdoor space and a guest room/home office. But most of what we look out is just so much wasted space. Our current house is laid out perfectly. I just want it to have one more room and a bigger patio or a little yard. Like instead of 1100 sq ft, I wish it was 1400 sq ft and a slightly larger lot.

It doesn't seem to exist.[/quote]

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