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1900 sq ft with 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. It's the perfect size for our small family, and it's our forever home. The house is in the perfect neighborhood, and I would happily retire here just like a few of our surrounding neighbors.
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Current place is a 3 floor condo.. Around 1400 sq feet? 3 bed 2.5 bath
New place is 2150sq feet, one floor, 3 bed 3 bath
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3100 sq ft, 4 br/2.5 baths. The seller messed up and listed it at 2800 sq ft, so we were pleasantly surprised to learn from the appraiser and then the county that it was bigger! We bought it knowing it would be our forever home, and I love that the floorplan allows for both open plan in the middle and private lounging areas at the ends.
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@chopsuey119: That is huge! I wish there were more bungalows (big ones, anyway) in our desired neighbourhoods.
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Ours is 1400 sq ft and it just depends on how many kids we have. It's a 3 bedroom, so if we only have two kids it could be our forever home. DH and I both grew up in pretty small houses so we're used to it, and personally I don't want a huge house because I feel like it's more to clean. We have a good sized back yard and enough room inside for them to play too.
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@nodakiddo and @caffeinated - i feel you guys on the bathroom situation too. we live in a nice home, but our 2.5 bathrooms really isn't enough space, especially if we have more kids in the future. our master bathroom is fine, with dual sinks, shower, and toilet... but our other "full bathroom" is teensy tiny and is a jack and jill type bathroom with only one sink. then we have our downstairs half bathroom with just a small sink and toilet. we're thinking about somehow expanding that second full bathroom so it has at least two sinks in maybe 5 years or so when we save up enough for it.
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OMFG, is our place the smallest place on HB? It's barely over 1000 square feet! I wish we could upgrade, but can't afford to right now! *Sadness*
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@cranberryapple NOPE we have a 670 sq foot lofted studio (granted its in Manhattan, but still! SMALL). It's perfect for me and DH- we have double sinks and were able to build another closet, but if we want to expand our family we'll most likely have to move before that happens.
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We live in a 950 sq ft, 1 bed/1 bath carriage house. It was built in the 70s and hasn't been updated since...we're talking olive green kitchen & bath, funky wood paneling and the like. The bedroom is actually quite small, but it has a HUGE living room and bathroom!!
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1700 sq ft single family home, 3 bedroom, 1/5 baths with a finished basement. So far it's doing it's job but we plan on upgrading to a bigger place in the next 3-5 years.
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2000 sq ft with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. It's plenty big for the two of us now and I think it will be fine with one LO, but we want to move before we have a second baby.
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@Mrs. High Heels: haha, i don't think you feel our pain if you have 2.5 baths! DH hates the fact that he has to go downstairs to pee, and wishes we had an ensuite. Our main bathroom is sooo small and cramped -- it's such a pain giving LO a bath...no room to move around.
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1470 sq feet, unfinished basement 3bed/2.5 baths.
I never want any bigger (or much bigger!) I grew up in 800 sq ft bungalow with 3 bed, 1 bath and DHs childhood home just a bit bigger than that.
I don't ever want to clean more bathrooms, and our lifestyle doesn't need the indoor space, we will be seeking more outdoor space in our next home!
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@caffeinated - hahah yikes!! you're right, i guess i underestimated your situation!! sorry sorry
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Our is a townhouse, around 1650 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. In some ways I love our house - hard wood floors, granite counters, beautiful view of the Merrimack river, stainless appliances. But, I bough the house when I was single and it's just not practical for a family long term.
For one thing, it's 4 floors. The 1st is mostly just garage, and the top floor is a giant loft, accessible only from the master bedroom. I think there's probably 1/4 of our square footage up there. And the schools here are really bad. I work in an area where you can live close by if you're a millionaire, or live in a crappy area if you're not. Or you can commute an hour. I chose the nice house in the crappy area with a short commute.
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3 bdr, 1 bath. about 1300 sqft. it's fine for the three of us, but we use the 3rd bedroom as an office since i work from home. we want to upgrade before we have a 2nd child to 4 bedrooms and at least 1 1/2 baths but not sure when that'll be. we bought this house knowing it wasn't our forever home due to our budget when we were looking.
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1400 sq feet, three bedrooms.
it is kind of small, but we have a huge backyard and front yard and are in our dream neighborhood.That being said, it would be very cramped with another child in this house. I would like to move soon!
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2 BR, 2BA condo... the real estate listing said it was 1350 sq ft when we bought it, but I don't really believe it. It feels more like 1200 sq ft...
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@cranberryapple: @kjwinter: We used to live in a 700-something sq ft 1 br/1 bath condo and were serious about having a LO there. At the time we were totally against moving out to the suburbs and houses in the city were so unaffordable! The funny thing is I never felt like it was small when we lived there.
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990 sq ft 2 bedroom/2 bathroom condo in the bay area. It's an upgrade from our 650 1 bed/1 bath apartment. At one point, DH and I were sharing a 290 sq ft. studio--that sucked!
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@cranberryapple: @kjwinter: We lived in a ~800sf apartment when our LO was born to 5 months old with a cat and a dog. It was in such a great location- we made it work. Now we have a 3/2, ~1500 sf house.
I'd love to upgrade at some point, but we are in such a good family neighborhood where people stay forever, so we'll see.
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Ours is a good size but too small for us.
It's 1620 sq ft 3 bdrm/2 ba. It's a cookie cutter house, I'd love to have a bigger more unique home but it works for now.
We have 4 kids in the house every other weekend!! DS has his own room, the girls share a room (7, 4, and 1) the older girls have a bunkbed, Maddy is in her crib still. It's not super cramped but nothing else will fit! Luckily we're renting, I would never buy this house!Our family room is ginormous, living room/kitchen/dining room are fairly large too, it's the bedrooms that suffer!
Both kids bedrooms are 11x12
Master is 14x13 <--- Tiny!
Kitchen - 17x10
Family - 17x14
Living - 15x17What we need is 2500 5 bdrm/3 ba. minimum. Hopefully that will happen pretty soon.
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We own an 1100 sf condo - it's 2 levels, 3 bedrooms but an open floor plan. We are busting at the seams already!
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1600 sqft. Our next home needs to be at least 2200 with a good layout.
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@cranberryapple: You're not alone! We live in a 2 bed, 1 bath apartment that's 800ish square feet. We could definitely make it work if we're still living here when we're able to have a baby, but it would be a tight fit!
I always wonder, on threads like this, if ladies in smaller houses/apartments/condos aren't as likely to respond, which makes it look like everyone lives in a good-sized or large house.
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@cranberryapple & @digapony - Oh no! You are not alone! Though our place is bigger now, we started out in a 2bd/1ba condo that was not quite 1000 sq.ft. It was a long-standing goal of mine to move into a single-family home with a garage before we had a baby, though we could have made do if we really needed to in the condo. Age and location have to be a big factor I would think too. (i.e. if you're in NYC vs. Texas)
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we have a 4 bedroom, 1.5 half bath with a pool. two rooms upstairs 2 down. The only reason we'd move is if we had another child (a 3rd) but that's not in the plan. Sure it would of been nice to have 3 bedrooms on the same floor, but I love having our bedroom downstairs and the kids upstairs.
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@Coco Bee: Ya that is true. I am thankful I work a lot, but on the days I don't work I am a mess lol.
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@shopaholic: Ya my parents moved here from Newport beach when I was younger. Utah is much more affordable lol!
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Current home is 2400 sq feet 3 br, 2 bath. New home will be 3400 sq feet 3 br, 4 bath.
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Our house is about 1600 sq feet. It is a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom bungalow. We will be finishing the basement, which is another 1500 square. The main issue right now is not a lot of store space. We built the house a year ago, so we should have thought of that. I just have wayyyyy tooo many clothes. If we have more than one kid we will likely need to upgrade.. but I do love the house/area so it will be a tough decision!
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@Mrs. Jacks: And gorgeous.
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@Honeybee: You'll know in person soon
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@kjwinter: @cranberryapple: I win! ( I'm calling it a win or I might feel bad) but we live in a 2bed/1 bath bungalow that clocks in at around 600 sq ft and have lived here for 3.5 years.. Of course we'd like a little more space, but honestly, it's saved us so much money because I fill the space I live in to capacity. If we had more space, I'd buy more things. Now we're constantly getting rid of stuff and only buying things we love. My biggest issue is not having two bathrooms.
Once our little lady arrives, we'll assess the realities but DH is gone M-F for school and won't be done til April and we LOVE where we live so it would take a break down and something majorly awesome to get us to move in the next year.
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We have a 2200 sq foot 4 bed 3 bath home, with an open floorplan. I would like to build a ~3000 sq foot 5 bed 3.5 or 4 bath home with a theatre/media room and some indoor/outdoor space .
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Ours is 1743 sqft built in 1915, not including the basement. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. I really love the size and floor plan but I feel once the to-be kids are older it will be a bit too small - especially if I get my way and we have three
We plan on developing the attic for a play room for the kids, finishing the basement and adding an extra bath.
The things I feel our house lacks for us is a large backyard and a mudroom for a convenient place for dog dishes etc.
I love the location and can see us staying here for a long time, it was my husbands dream house.
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We just moved at the beginnin of the year. Our home is 3800 sq ft with 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 2 half baths, and a huge bonus room. This house would fit is forever. It has tons of storage, which is my favorite feature. We probably won't be in it forever though with the way my hubby's job works. It has felt way too big for us (our previous houses were 1900 sq ft) but I'm sure once the little man arrives it will fill up quickly!!
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The house we currently rent in England is 1700sq ft, 3 bed 2.5 bath. Our house at home in StL is 1200sq ft, 2bed 1 bath.
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Our apartment right now is 1600 with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
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Ours is 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1800 sq feet.
I did not want a huge house and I still don't, but boy it would be nice to have a basement or something for our treadmill, etc.
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