Anonymous wrote:Everybody saying "We're ok with xxx sqft" is lying. Period.
In the end, it's ALWAYS about money. If you could afford 10,000 sqft (and the accompanying maintenance), you'd do it in a heartbeat.
I've yet to meet an actual person, who said, they don't like their house, because it's too big.
That's the reality check.
Anonymous wrote:"Bigger" houses are just better value. If you start looking at $/sqft, it keeps dropping as you go bigger.
Why? Because the majority of the cost is in the initial land/permits/project approval/acquisition etc etc. Whether you build 3000 sqft or 5000 sqft, the costs do not scale linearly.
So, yeah, there may be dead space in a bigger house, or rooms that "you never go into" (although, I refuse to believe that), but that's what getting built, whether you like it or not. This is one of, if not THE reason, housing has become so expensive. They keep building bigger...because well, we keep buying them. Stop buying bigger houses and the builders will downsize in a heartbeat.
p.s. All these people talking about the 70s and 80s...a typical TV then was 27"...today it's 65". The typical dining table size was four chairs then...today it's six and growing. You couldn't fit your kids xboxes, PS3/4/5, BD player etc etc in a 70s house.
Anonymous wrote:Everybody saying "We're ok with xxx sqft" is lying. Period.
In the end, it's ALWAYS about money. If you could afford 10,000 sqft (and the accompanying maintenance), you'd do it in a heartbeat.
I've yet to meet an actual person, who said, they don't like their house, because it's too big.
That's the reality check.
Anonymous wrote:Where do you all live and have these huge houses?
We are a family of 5 and live in 2,100 sq ft if you count our finished basement. It is perfect for us. We have 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms upstairs, an open floor plan on the main level, and a big family room and bathroom in the basement. My FIL needs to come live with us so we are looking to move but are priced out of our Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everybody saying "We're ok with xxx sqft" is lying. Period.
In the end, it's ALWAYS about money. If you could afford 10,000 sqft (and the accompanying maintenance), you'd do it in a heartbeat.
I've yet to meet an actual person, who said, they don't like their house, because it's too big.
That's the reality check.
Out home is 8,000 sq ft and it’s too big. We don’t need 7 bathrooms. We didn’t want a house this big, but to get the outdoor space we wanted, this house was the best option.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My home is 1300 square feet and it is not enough room. We are a family of almost 6 and 2 dogs. I think we’d be good in around 2000-2300 square feet.
Now that sounds awful.
We are a family of 5 in a 3500 sq ft house in McLean - a little more space would be nice, maybe up to 5000 sq ft would be nice, but anything over that feels unnecessary even if housekeeping were included.
However comments like this and everyone lying about not wanting 10000 sq ft sums up why some folks on DCUM can't fathom why the orange one won - what we enjoy here, our values, are not normal for a lot of other people. Yes 1300 for 6 and pets is small and "sounds awful" by 2021 DCUM standards, but remember that was par for the course growing up in the 70s and 80s. More siblings for GenX, shared bedrooms in ramblers, tiny cape cods, or apartments, but a lot of us were happy because we didn't know what we didn't have. Full disclosure I vowed I'd never share a bedroom after college, and fortunate I was able to keep that
Anonymous wrote:Everybody saying "We're ok with xxx sqft" is lying. Period.
In the end, it's ALWAYS about money. If you could afford 10,000 sqft (and the accompanying maintenance), you'd do it in a heartbeat.
I've yet to meet an actual person, who said, they don't like their house, because it's too big.
That's the reality check.
Anonymous wrote:Everybody saying "We're ok with xxx sqft" is lying. Period.
In the end, it's ALWAYS about money. If you could afford 10,000 sqft (and the accompanying maintenance), you'd do it in a heartbeat.
I've yet to meet an actual person, who said, they don't like their house, because it's too big.
That's the reality check.