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We are about 1500 square feet, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom. It's great for us. I think it would be fine for 1 child, but we will be buying a home this fall either in our current home or in a new city if DH gets transferred. Hoping to stay here as house prices are extremely reasonable and it would be a great area to raise kids.

it's not an apartment, but we're in 1000 sq ft right now (2br, 1 bath), and it'll be perfect for us even when baby arrives. i'll be real honest here -- i'm super lazy. i hate to clean. one of my main criteria in a home was: "JUST as big as we need, no wasted space."

our old place was 1300 sq ft, 2 br, 1 ba, and it was plenty big for 2 ppl & a baby (if we had one, lol). where we are now is 900 sq ft (we moved because this is a much nicer unit), 2 br, 1 ba, and honestly it would be fine for us with 1 baby- there are ppl in our building with 2 kids in their apts, but it would be a bit cramped.

i think a lot of it depends on how well designed the space it. we have crap for closets, we couldn't fit a pack'n'play in our br in addition to our furniture and our kitchen is too small, but we have a very large living room/dining room, so there is sq footage in our unit that were it redistributed, could make for a space more conducive to living with a LO.

1200 sq feet, 2 bedroom 2 bath and I think it plenty big for us and an LO. We hardly touch the guest bed/bath. Now fitting a full nursery in there with the guest bed (queen) will be interesting but perfectly plausible.

1600 3 bed, 2.5 bath but it feels much smaller because the first floor is a finished basement that is just one big room, so all the rooms upstairs are small.

it is a good size for our little family, but i wish the square footage was divided differently. our last apt was the exact same size, and # of rooms, but felt much, much bigger.

Ours is 1000 sq feet with 2 bed 1.5 bath. It has been perfect, but will be getting tight as we continue to prepare for baby. We will make it work for us though.

We just moved out but our apartment was 1350 sq ft with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It was plenty big for us and baby.

@photojane: THIS. I wish our place was smaller. I hate cleaning!

I don't know the square footage, but we rent the other half of the ILs duplex. So we get a killer, killer deal..thus, why we don't own or live anywhere else, even though there are cons here.

The duplex is two stories...upstairs, 3 bed and 1 bath (that used to be a full sized bedroom..its ridiculously huge). downstairs is a full size kitchen, dining, living, 1/2 bath. It's enormous, but I wish it were a little smaller..it's a pain to keep clean. Definitely large enough if we had 2 kids though!

We have about 1550 sq. ft., with 2 bedrooms / 2.5 bathrooms, but it's just us and our puppy. With no little ones it feels like plenty of space, but I'd like to have more like 2000 sq. ft. and at least 3 bedrooms when we have a baby. DH & I grew up in larger homes so that's what we're used to. I'd like to have a room for our LO as well as a guest room.

We were in a 2bd 1 bath place that was 1400 sq ft and we thought about having a baby there (actually the plan was to either but a house last year or have a baby and the house won.) It would not have been great though because of layout. We had gobs of closet space but in weird places, or coat closet was the size of a small bedroom, we had two linen closets and the closet in the baby/guest room was big but the master closet was tiny and there wasnt a pantry. Plus the living room was a super awkward shape.

I have an aunt who lives in a 1100 sq ft place with a great layout though and I could see raising two or three kids there...