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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 19:22:37 GMT -5
Mine is 3200 square feet. About 1700 up and 1300 down and then the laundry and entry. It's too big for just me and the boys, but I'd rather have too much space then not enough I guess. I live 99% in the upper level. Older son and the cats have the lower level to themselves. Everyone has their own bath which I really like. The garage is 3 car with a 12X12 foot shop on the end of one bay. I really like the garage even though I just have one van. My camper is parked inside and lots of room for the kids bikes and the snowblower and other things.
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Post by mroped on Mar 29, 2016 19:45:14 GMT -5
All doors leading outside are doubles- slider or swing- except the front door that will be a single at the minimum 36". I'd prefer a 40" or more. Interior doors- bedrooms, bathrooms- 36" opening all of them.
Door size and hallway width are my two "must be this size things". Hate narrow doors and can't stand narrow hallways.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 19:50:15 GMT -5
36 inch doors are you nuts? Maybe the master and big bathroom... It's going to be like a house for Giants.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 20:08:26 GMT -5
We have 1600 sf on the main level plus a loft (accessible by a built-in ladder) that we don't use and a sunroom. There are also two large decks (22' by 13.5' and 14' X 13.5'). In addition, there is a finished basement that consists of a living area and bedroom plus a workshop and storage area. The workroom has garage flooring; the storage area has concrete. Neither of those areas have a ceiling. The living area and bedroom have really high ceilings, which are nice since DH is 6'. Oh, and there's unfinished attic space that we could use as storage (there's a platform on either side and in front of the steps), but we don't.
Did I forget the two-car carport and the back patio? There is a lot of space for just two people. We have four tv's if that gives you any idea of how many living areas (three plus one in my bedroom).
For us, size attracts clutter or hoarding. We don't really hoard, but it is too easy when we replace furniture just to say, "Put the old stuff downstairs." We mean to deal with it but never do.
I no longer let anything go to the basement except paper goods, detergent, and stuff like that. The workshop has tons of shelving.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Mar 29, 2016 20:48:19 GMT -5
I have about 1900 sq ft, which includes 600 sq ft finished in the basement. There is more unfinished space down there.
Upstairs, which I live, it's a 3 bedroom, one bath with attached double car garage. Laundry on main level. Those were my requirements when I was house hunting. There is 1.75 bath in basement. There could be bedrooms in the basement if somebody else wants to make it that. I don't use the basement so I'm not finishing anything down there.
It's just me and the cat and it's definitely too big. I wish now I would have stayed renting and have two bedrooms, laundry and garage.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 20:49:27 GMT -5
1366 square feet of habitable space plus a 2-car garage. I would like 1800 or so but way out of our price range. We do have awesome decks front and back so the house lives large for us. My dream house would include a sound-proofed space where I could hide. DH's hearing loss means that our life is very loud so he can hear. Sometimes I sleep in the car in the garage (I can still hear him there, plus the cat sleeps in the garage, or in the car in the driveway but that's pretty dangerous given the gang shootings in the area. For awhile I slept a couple of hours on the back deck but mosquitoes are fierce and Zika virus is here too.
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Post by suesinfl on Mar 29, 2016 20:52:37 GMT -5
1097sq ft. 3 bd, 1 1/2 bath, no basement, no attic (crawl space only) carport w/laundry room at the back, 3/4 of an acre. Small rooms except for the kitchen/dinning area, but it works for me and two teens.
Looking to sell and move after oldest flies, (please this year). So it will be just myself and one teen in an apartment with less sq. ft., in a new town. I'm tired of being a homeowner after 25 years and want someone else to take care of things....that also has its own problems, I know.
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Post by DagnyT on Mar 29, 2016 23:21:22 GMT -5
2200 square feet. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. No basement, but a high crawl space and a walk up attic of just over 1,000 square feet that could be finished with over 8 foot side walls. Over 900 square foot, 2 car garage and workshop area for husband, plus a 12 by 24 outbuilding for the tractor, attachments, and all the lawn care equipment.
I think it is too big for the four of us. Husband thinks it is perfect.(Kids are 17 and 22 so who knows how long they will continue to live here). It also sits on 2 acres which I know I would not be able to maintain if husband goes before me. I have told him that if he goes before me, I am moving to one of the rentals, which are 924 square feet and 1158 square feet. I can take my pick.
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 29, 2016 23:48:31 GMT -5
1650, no basement, no attic, no garage. It is tight for the 4 of us, and we have a storage unit a few miles away. It only feels tight because we know so many people who have a LOT more square footage. In reality, we have everything we need.
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Post by mroped on Mar 30, 2016 7:26:17 GMT -5
36 inch doors are you nuts? Maybe the master and big bathroom... It's going to be like a house for Giants. And so it begins! Yes dear!
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Post by wvugurl26 on Mar 30, 2016 7:31:35 GMT -5
36 inch doors are you nuts? Maybe the master and big bathroom... It's going to be like a house for Giants. And so it begins! Yes dear! Words of a wise man.
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Post by tskeeter on Mar 30, 2016 14:20:11 GMT -5
Our bedroom and master bathroom have wide doors, they built it that way to accommodate a wheelchair. But then its 3 steps up to the front door or 3 steps up to the back door so not sure what they were thinking, would have to build a ramp. Back screened in porch 3 steps to it then 1 into the house so that doesn't help either. She said they built it with wheelchair use in mind?? I guess that unless you have extensive experience with a wheel chair, handicapped friendly doesn't mean the same thing to you that it does to the handicapped. For example, my Grandmother lived in a "senior" apartment building. Although it was a multistory building, it didn't have an elevator for those living on the second floor (built pre ADA). And Gram had a hard time bathing. She couldn't lift her feet high enough to get them over the edge of the tub so she could take a bath or shower. So, it was back to pre-plumbing days on the farm. A sponge bath.
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Post by kittensaver on Mar 30, 2016 14:23:37 GMT -5
36 inch doors are you nuts? Maybe the master and big bathroom... It's going to be like a house for Giants. And so it begins! Yes dear! Yup - it's called Universal Design. It is intended to make an ordinary looking home fully accessible to anyone who might have special needs - not just seniors, but people in wheelchairs, etc.
It's magic is that it makes a beautiful home without looking like an institution. It's really pretty genius.
Good on you, mroped ! Go for it and don't listen to the naysayers.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 14:39:32 GMT -5
He wanted 6 foot hallways too. I want to be accommodating, but we don't need to live in a mall. I could see making the master and one bath accessible with big doors.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Mar 30, 2016 15:27:48 GMT -5
He wanted 6 foot hallways too. I want to be accommodating, but we don't need to live in a mall. I could see making the master and one bath accessible with big doors. Is this the last house you two will live in? If so, provisions for you geriatric years would be a good idea.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Mar 30, 2016 15:31:34 GMT -5
Eh, depends on the personalities of the inhabitants. I've had several people ask us "where's all your stuff?" including my mother. We just don't keep "stuff" for the sake of keeping it.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 30, 2016 16:06:42 GMT -5
He wanted 6 foot hallways too. I want to be accommodating, but we don't need to live in a mall. I could see making the master and one bath accessible with big doors. 6 foot hallways makes for a lot of wasted space. Plus, the wider the door, the wider the swing, necessitating even bigger rooms to fit furniture and fixtures. It's all a trade-off. I guess if you just want to build as big as you can, it doesn't matter, but additional materials means more money.
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Post by bean29 on Mar 30, 2016 17:36:47 GMT -5
We live in a ranch. We went for Universal Design access when we were building - not for us, but for our visitors. Our 2nd house was a bi-level. You had to go up or down the stairs when you came in the front door. We were in that house only a short time, and I realized my parent's couldn't visit our house easily. We only lived there from May of 2011-Sept of 2014. We put it on the market in March or April of 2014. I started looking at New Homes and Lots in 2013.
We have 36" doors into the house from the garage and the front door, but the entry through the garage was not perfect. I think one of the doors was not modified correctly, or it is the right angle turn that you have to make to exit the room.
The door into the main bath is a 36" door, but it is awkward moving around the open door into the bathroom for everyone, even those not in a wheelchair. My Dad Passed a little over a year ago. He was not in a wheelchair when we were building, but he definitely was in a wheelchair for several years, and we had many family parties at our house that he attended. We are going to change that door to the main bath and make it smaller. I should have made it a pocket door when we were building, DH says it would take too much space to modify it now, so we are just going to reframe it to a smaller size.
My master bath is still handicapped accessible, but we have carpet - that is not hard to correct/modify though.
My neighbors poured the masonry ramp to the front door with no ledge on the threshold. They also have the shower that you roll into. They also put the circuit breakers on the 1st floor rather than the basement. I have lever handles on my doors, the other thing they recommend for people with arthritis is the toggle light switches. My builder pretended they did not know what I wanted, so we have conventional switches. My DH can change them if need be, but I suspect that if we need handicapped accessiblility we will just start over even though we could easily live in the current house. (Making the shower work is the biggie, and a roll in shower is FUGLY IMHO, so I am not living with it before we need it. My parents never had a roll in shower, but they did have a lift/pulley system to move dad from the bed, to the TV room and in and out of the bathroom.
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Post by Abby Normal on Mar 30, 2016 18:32:37 GMT -5
We have 1500 Sq ft. I'd like a bit more, but to be honest we have 2 rooms we rarely use. More space means more to clean. Ds will be off to college in 5 years and then we will have way more room then we need.
I wish we had more property. Then dh could have a shop and I could actually park in the garage. That's were we need more space. That, or a basement which we don't have either.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 18:59:41 GMT -5
Eh, depends on the personalities of the inhabitants. I've had several people ask us "where's all your stuff?" including my mother. We just don't keep "stuff" for the sake of keeping it. Yeah I'm looking forward to my 'stuff' just having a little more breathing room. I might need a few things, but mostly just don't want things so 'close'...
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Post by msventoux on Mar 30, 2016 21:21:25 GMT -5
About 1100 sq. ft. with attached garage, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, no basement just a crawlspace. I live alone, so it's large enough...but hopefully small enough to keep me from adopting anymore animals.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Mar 30, 2016 23:09:55 GMT -5
Our house (LMAO - I had typed Out instead of Our) total is 2800 SF but that includes an attached 2 car garage. Under air is just under 2,200 SF. We also have attic space for lots of storage. I love our floor plan. It's like having two houses in one because there is the foyer/formal DR/LR sections - then the kitchen that opens into a breakfast area and family room. The kitchen is in the middle of both areas with 2 ways in. And there is a lanai that you can get to from both areas with 8 ft. double sliders and another in the master bedroom. The house kind of surrounds the lanai. It's also a 3-way split plan. I LOVE my house but it's way more than we need.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 3:21:56 GMT -5
According to Zillow, ours is 1,046 sq. ft. Not taking a tape measure around to verify so I'll take it. 2 floors but DH uses the living room and the bathroom and that's pretty much it. The upstairs is MINE!!!! ALL MINE!!!!!!!!! Not anything to get excited about though as the walls all need painting and one room has a bunch of crap I want to put up on craigslist but haven't gotten around to. Anyone want pottery from Olde Sturbridge Village? I don't. There's only 2 of us and it is pretty handicapped friendly and will be more so, hopefully by the end of summer, when a few things get done. Our entry doorways are 36" because I planned ahead when we got our doors replaced. DH uses a rolling walker but in hot weather he uses a wheelchair. We have to get the kitchen door threshold replaced and then a new landing put on. We would like a porch/deck of some sort along that side of the house but will have to see what we can realistically afford. We already have a temporary ramp in place at the front door and we have another one for the kitchen door but that has to wait until the work is done. Universal design is something I have been looking at and I am planning to replace light switches with the rocker-type switches that don't need a lot of hand movement. Of course that reminds me I need to replace the doorknob on the front door to a lever style that we have on the kitchen door. It's soooo much easier and less painful. Painful because we had the Mass Saves people do some work and it included weatherstripping the front door with rigid thingies. I keep hitting them with my fat hand. We will also be replacing the bathtub as the rusty behemoth we have now is too tall and he has a hard time getting in and out. As it is, he is allowed to shower only when I am home so that I can pull him out if I need to. We really need to expand the bathroom a bit but that's going to take money and I have to see if grants will cover that or just the tub, toilet and sink. Ugh.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 3:24:37 GMT -5
Our house (LMAO - I had typed Out instead of Our) total is 2800 SF but that includes an attached 2 car garage. Under air is just under 2,200 SF. We also have attic space for lots of storage. I love our floor plan. It's like having two houses in one because there is the foyer/formal DR/LR sections - then the kitchen that opens into a breakfast area and family room. The kitchen is in the middle of both areas with 2 ways in. And there is a lanai that you can get two from both areas with 8 ft. double sliders and another in the master bedroom. The house kind of surrounds the lanai. It's also a 3-way split plan. I LOVE my house but it's way more than we need. That's the theme in our bathroom. We have a shower curtain, matching rings and a towel set with outhouses on it. We have a picture of an outhouse too but that was something I had given my dad a looong time ago. Our house - I now have that song stuck in my head!!!!!!!! "In the middle of our street! Our house!"
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Post by txbo on Apr 1, 2016 16:57:04 GMT -5
3200 sq ft, 1 level, no basement, 4 bedroom, 1 office, 3 bath, 2 adults.
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Post by sesfw on Apr 1, 2016 18:38:48 GMT -5
In Michigan we had 3K sq ft living space (ranch) and 3K basement. 4 bed, 3 full bath, 1/2 bath .... and 1 full bath in basement. 3 car garage. I called the basement 'never, never land'. DHs deceased wife was a shopaholic and that's where everything got stored. Beautiful and comfortable home. 3 car garage
Downsized to 2K sq ft and that was a real trip. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch on a slab, 2 car garage. Would like a 3 car garage but no room to build.
Two adults, one kitty
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Post by debthaven on Apr 2, 2016 14:42:31 GMT -5
We have a modestly sized house, 2200 square feet. Partial basement, no attic, no garage (we are actually the converted garage of the huge house next door). But the floor plan is FANTASTIC, there is literally NO wasted space. We have 6 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. BUT ... one of those bedrooms is in the partial basement (it has a window but it's not walk-out). And the smallest upstairs bedroom is officially a large walk-in closet. (Here a bedroom needs to be 9 m2 to be considered a bedroom, and that room is 8.7 m2. DD lived in that room when she was a toddler. It was tight with all 4 kids at home. We gave DS1 the basement bedroom when he left for college, then bumped the other kids up a room and turned that large walk in closet small bedroom into a kids' TV/guest room. 11 years later, that's still how it is today. We were waiting for DS2 to clear out the downstairs master bedroom so we could turn it into an office / music room (and perhaps guest room). But we just did other stuff in the house instead, so DS2 gets a reprieve.
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Post by TrixAre4Kids on Apr 6, 2016 17:53:39 GMT -5
You all have palaces! I live in a 24' motorhome aka 'tiny house with wheels', all of 192 square feet. But I have a really big backyard! [/URL]
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Post by debthaven on Apr 6, 2016 18:02:31 GMT -5
Wow Trix!
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Post by Plain Old Petunia on Apr 6, 2016 18:57:58 GMT -5
I've got a 1441 sq ft rancher. No basement, we don't have such things in California. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car attached garage. 2 of the bedrooms are very small, the rest of the rooms are adequate.
Right now it is occupied by 5 adults, so it fits a bit snugly.
When I downsize someday, I want a 2/2 townhouse, about 1000 sq. ft would be just right.
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