Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is about that size, just across the river from McLean. We're a family of 4.

It's not that difficult to fill. You end up with rooms for a specific purpose, like his and hers home offices; exercise room; children's playroom, and so on. Then we have 2 guest rooms since we have visitors from abroad who visit every few months.

This.

His office
Her office
Butler's office
Butler's exercise room
Children's playroom
Children's butler office

Easy. How can anybody live with less than 9,000 sq ft?

6500 sq ft.

- His office
- Her office
- Home gym
- 2 large storage rooms the size of bedrooms
- Home theatre
- Downstairs Bar/Pool Room

No gift-wrapping room?

10,000 sqft for our family of six, three generations. We were fine in a 6000sqft home, and certainly squeezed in a 2000sqft one without going crazy. We are flexible, but the larger home is nice, not gonna lie.

We have 6800 SF with one kid.

It's big but we don't notice it. Two offices, large LR, Fam Room and Kitchen, DR - 5 BR - finished basement, exercise room etc. Generally the same number of rooms and uses as our last house which was 5000 or so, everything is just a little larger.

Other than the guest bedrooms we touch every part of it throughout the week. This is the part of the area we want to live in and the house is normal sized for the neighborhood we wanted so that was the key decision point to getting more house than we needed.

My parents have a 10,000 SF home in Potomac. It doesn't seem "too big" IMHO, but maybe that's cause I grew up in it and it just seems to be the right size for us? I don't know. (We do always have a constant stream of guests from our home country so the house is never empty / unused)

Main Floor:
Foyer
Powder Room
Formal Living Room
Library
Family Room
Sun Room
Kitchen
Formal Dining Room
Pantry / Storage Room
Office (Additional Bedroom if we have lots of guests)
Mud Room
Laundry Room
Full Bathroom

Upstairs Wing 1:
Master Bedroom w/ Spa Bathroom
Bedroom 2 for Me w/ 3 Walk-In Closets and Spa Bathroom

Upstairs Wing 2:
Bedroom 3 for Middle Sister w/ Library and Spa Bathroom
Bedroom 4 Youngest Sister w/ Darkroom and Spa Bathroom

Basement:
Bedroom 5 for Guests
Bedroom 6 for Guests
Home Theater Room
Dance Floor
Secondary Kitchen
Secondary Family Room
Secondary Dining Area
Bar
Gym
Full Bathroom

I do love that my parents let us each have a huge spa bathroom and allowed us to add one thing we love to our space. I'm a shopper and was going through my "Clueless" phase so I went w/ tons of closet space. My middle sister is a voracious reader so she had a huge library area added to her room and my youngest sister is into photography so she had a darkroom added in with a little gallery area. Even as adults we still appreciate these areas when we come home.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is about that size, just across the river from McLean. We're a family of 4.

It's not that difficult to fill. You end up with rooms for a specific purpose, like his and hers home offices; exercise room; children's playroom, and so on. Then we have 2 guest rooms since we have visitors from abroad who visit every few months.

This.

His office
Her office
Butler's office
Butler's exercise room
Children's playroom
Children's butler office

Easy. How can anybody live with less than 9,000 sq ft?

Butler's supersize room?
An average self respecting butter is too tired to excresize,
and an average self respecting Potomac owner owner is too cheap to have a buttler.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:9000SF 7BR 7FB 2HFBA- Family of 4 + nanny. We started smaller but wanted large bedrooms, large walkins, lots of storage rooms and a bathroom for each bedroom and a 3 car garage.

Upstairs:
Master is Bedroom 1
Bedrooms 2 and 3 are each for the kids
Bedroom 4 is a playroom
Bedroom 5 is a guest room

First Floor:
Family Room
Living Room
Bedroom 6 is an office that can be a bedroom for elderly
Powder room off the mudroom

Basement
Bedroom 7 is the nanny's
Rec Room, wet bar and game room
Home Theater Room
Work out room
Basement Powder Room

sorry forgot the kitchen

Upstairs:
Master is Bedroom 1
Bedrooms 2 and 3 are each for the kids
Bedroom 4 is a playroom
Bedroom 5 is a guest room

First Floor:
Kitchen
Kitchen eating nook
Butler Pantry
Dining Room
Family Room
Living Room
Bedroom 6 is an office that can be a bedroom for elderly
Powder room off the mudroom
Deck and Screen Porch to the pool

Basement
Bedroom 7 is the nanny's
Rec Room, wet bar and game room
Home Theater Room
Work out room
Basement Powder Room

Essentially it's all about luxury and imitating the lifestyles of the wealthy, e.g. having a separate room for every activity, having dedicated guest rooms that serve no other purpose, multiple recreation rooms, office for each adult, even if they don't work from home. If you have money, I get it, you also pay someone to clean.

Anonymous wrote:I would think for a house that size that grandparents/some other extended family live there (or visit half the year). Otherwise it's just a pain in terms of upkeep.

If you don't live in certain rooms you don't have to clean them every week

I would think for a house that size that grandparents/some other extended family live there (or visit half the year). Otherwise it's just a pain in terms of upkeep.

My ILs in CA "downsized" from 7500 sq ft to just under 6000 and my FIL moans about the loss of space. It's just the two of them. No pets.

Of course, if I lived with my FIL I'd want that much space too so I could hide.

We have 3600 with 4 people here and we don't use several rooms more than a couple times a year.

I do! Or wait a minute your not including the lot are you?

After DH divorces me I'll be in 8500 sqft alone.

Anonymous wrote:9000SF 7BR 7FB 2HFBA- Family of 4 + nanny. We started smaller but wanted large bedrooms, large walkins, lots of storage rooms and a bathroom for each bedroom and a 3 car garage.

Upstairs:
Master is Bedroom 1
Bedrooms 2 and 3 are each for the kids
Bedroom 4 is a playroom
Bedroom 5 is a guest room

First Floor:
Family Room
Living Room
Bedroom 6 is an office that can be a bedroom for elderly
Powder room off the mudroom

Basement
Bedroom 7 is the nanny's
Rec Room, wet bar and game room
Home Theater Room
Work out room
Basement Powder Room

sorry forgot the kitchen

Upstairs:
Master is Bedroom 1
Bedrooms 2 and 3 are each for the kids
Bedroom 4 is a playroom
Bedroom 5 is a guest room

First Floor:
Kitchen
Kitchen eating nook
Butler Pantry
Dining Room
Family Room
Living Room
Bedroom 6 is an office that can be a bedroom for elderly
Powder room off the mudroom
Deck and Screen Porch to the pool

Basement
Bedroom 7 is the nanny's
Rec Room, wet bar and game room
Home Theater Room
Work out room
Basement Powder Room

9000SF 7BR 7FB 2HFBA- Family of 4 + nanny. We started smaller but wanted large bedrooms, large walkins, lots of storage rooms and a bathroom for each bedroom and a 3 car garage.

Upstairs:
Master is Bedroom 1
Bedrooms 2 and 3 are each for the kids
Bedroom 4 is a playroom
Bedroom 5 is a guest room

First Floor:
Family Room
Living Room
Bedroom 6 is an office that can be a bedroom for elderly
Powder room off the mudroom

Basement
Bedroom 7 is the nanny's
Rec Room, wet bar and game room
Home Theater Room
Work out room
Basement Powder Room

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ours is about that size, just across the river from McLean. We're a family of 4.

It's not that difficult to fill. You end up with rooms for a specific purpose, like his and hers home offices; exercise room; children's playroom, and so on. Then we have 2 guest rooms since we have visitors from abroad who visit every few months.

This.

His office
Her office
Butler's office
Butler's exercise room
Children's playroom
Children's butler office

Easy. How can anybody live with less than 9,000 sq ft?

6500 sq ft.

- His office
- Her office
- Home gym
- 2 large storage rooms the size of bedrooms
- Home theatre
- Downstairs Bar/Pool Room

Anonymous wrote:2 people who end us divorced eventually

Or 2 gays who throw lavish parties and have their guests just crash there after a night of partying

It's definitely not for the normal families of 2 working parents and 2-3 kids with a pet or two.

Hmmm - 6500 sq ft house here. 2 kids, 1 small dog. Some rooms I only visit weekly just to make sure nothing has sprung a leak.