Hellobee Boards

Our house is 2800 sq ft but that includes the built-in garage, so it's really more like 2500 "real" sq ft. It's more than we need, although I think it would be close to perfect if we decide to have another child. I like the layout of our main floor a lot, but I'd make significant changes to the walk-out basement level if I could...it's not a priority right now, but there's a lot of wasted space down there. My parents' house is 1800 sq ft and I love it, but it's a very different layout than ours. In general, I think 1800-2200 is a great size, depending on the layout.

We're currently in 200 sq metres (approx 2200 sq ft) and it's a good size for us. We have three bedrooms, two bathrooms and two generous living spaces and the only thing I'd need more space for would be a fourth bedroom.

Our current house is about 1500 sq ft. If it weren't an old house with an inefficient layout, I think we could handle it for a while. Thankfully, we also have a finished basement that helps with play space. The major drawback is the lack of bathrooms.

Ideally, I'd like about 2500 well-planned sq ft with 2.5 baths. That would cost about $900k in this area though.

Our house is 1120 sq ft with two bedrooms. It's absolutely perfect for the two of us, and will work fine when we have one young kid. I'd really like something closer to 1500-2000 once we have a school aged kid or two kids. We might sell and move, or we might build an additional master suite with a bath. But most likely sell-the kitchen is smaller than we'd like and the property isn't ideal. I do love it for a first house though!

We have 1800 and then a 400 sq ft enclosed sun room. Our layout is bad though. Our master is huge and has a bad layout. We really would love to have four bedrooms and maybe an office.

We have 1000 sq feet of living space in our little starter house right now. When we move to our new house we'll have about 3000 sq ft and that's almost too much, but I can't wait. Haha

Ours is at the 4000 sq ft mark and we just had the twins so not so crazy for a family of 4 opposed to 2! We don't have a basement and I would love to have the additional space, but basements don't exist where we live since the soil is too soft and it's coastal.

Surprisingly, we don't find it hard to maintain and we built new so it's very energy efficient and utilities are pretty much miniscule each month.

Holy crap, I can't believe how big some of your homes are!! We are at 1600 now and I hate the layout. Looking at buying next year and it will be in the 1000-1200 range most likely although, we'll plan to expand at some point, but I can't see ever needing more than 2000 sq ft! I wouldn't even know what to put in there!

Some of you have such big houses!

Ours is about 1700 sq ft. It's fine - we feel like we have plenty of space including a play room. I would like 4 bedrooms so we can have a room for each LO if we have a second, plus a guest room. If money were no object, I think 2500-3000 would be great.

I also really think it matters how you use the space. A friend has a 4500+ sq ft home but two of her three kids share a room! A lot of the space is used in common areas because they entertain a lot and so it feels really big in those spaces. I grew up in a pretty large home that didn't feel so large once inside because there were a lot of individual rooms versus an open floor plan.

I voted 1500-2000. We are currently in a 1500sf townhouse and I love it! Size isn't something I desire, layout is more important. We have 3 bed, 2 bath with an excellent layout. I would never want more no matter- because it is more to clean and more to heat and cool! No thank you.

I grew up in 3000sf and it was very large, but later we built a 2500sf that seemed smaller than my townhouse! The layout just didn't work. I like being close, I just can't imagine needing more. And, like I implied- I would resent having to buy buy buy to fill large rooms and our weather is EXTREME, so heating and cooling can become an expensive nightmare.

I voted 3,500 to 4,000.
Currently in a 3 bedroom apartment that's just shy of 1700 sq ft. But it's not very thoughtfully designed. It's a new condo building and it has some layout features to make it seem "grand", but they count the wide hallways that every room has and the closets in the sq footage. It's not actual usable space.
I DREAM of a house someday. Not ready to leave the city till the grade school years - but when I see homes of our friends who've left the city I get a pang of jealousy.

As an aside, my husbands boss has a 60,000 square foot house. That is not a typo. I did not add too many zeros. SIXTY-THOUSAND. It looks like a shopping mall from aerial views. There is such a thing as too big and that's it.

We're in 2100 sqft right now and I think we could use another 1000. I would love another bedroom, larger bedrooms and a bonus room.

@Cherrybee: I miss our house in the UK. I liked it a lot more than the house we have now.

Our current house is about 1300sq ft, but poorly laid out with a tiny kitchen and we could use a little more space. I think the 1700-2000 range would be perfect. I don't think I'd want more than 2000, just seems a waste.

Ours is 2700 sq ft, not including the partially finished basement that we do use for storage and for exercise equipment. It's a 4 bed 3 bath so plenty big enough for the 4 of us and the dog. I wish the layout were a little different and that we could finish the basement to make a bigger playroom/family room for the kids, but we really don;t need it as we have both of those rooms upstairs already. We also have a 2 car garage/barn with a finished "man room" above it which we don't count as footage but s used quite a bit.

I'd like around 2000 sq ft and land around that house

We're in 1600 sq ft now (3 bed, 2 bath) and it is perfectly suitable for our family of three as we don't plan to expand, but I'd like a little extra storage in the kitchen and one more bedroom that can act as an office/workout space. Right now we have a guest room/office and I'd love to not have to combine those two.

I'm pretty happy with our current size home, but would love, love, love a 3rd garage and a bigger yard. Our current yard is itty bitty and can't do much with it. It's not a zero lot, but the larger home took up most of the plot.

I design a lot of enormous houses for a living but prefer living fairly small.
We have about 1,600sf with another 800sf in a soon to be finished basement. I don't see us needing much more space for a while. We have four bedrooms and two bathrooms with a great layout.

I feel like a lot depends on layout. We went from 1900 sq ft to a 3200 sq foot and it is plenty of room, but not waaaay too spacious. The bedrooms are all in one area and the living area kitchen is all in another. Pretty sure I wouldn't want more space because this is plenty, but I don't feel like I would want a whole lot smaller if I had more than a family of 4. ALthough...I know it's completely possible and doable in smaller living space!

We have 1350 sq ft. Plus an unfinished basement. It is a good size with one kid.

I'd like only a tiny bit bigger since I'd like to have a den off the living room to us as a playroom. And if the second two rooms were a bit bigger that would be nice.