telekinetic

I lived in a 410 square foot studio with a girlfriend for a year, for a total per capita space of 205, and never really felt cramped. It helped that we didn't really own anything, and made a lot of intelligent decorating decisions at Ikea when we moved in.

I made the most of a 1048 square foot 2-bedroom/1-bath house with my wife when we first got together, and it honestly felt fairly spacious--we rarely used the second bedroom until we had our daughter.

Now we're in 1700 square feet (3bed/2.5bath), and I occasionally wish we had one more bedroom/office/den/project room of some kind, because, with my limited time, I don't always have time to start something, finish it, and put it away in a timely manner, so our spare bedroom is something of a disaster due to projects in progress. The floorplan is still very efficient, and has various nooks in hallways and stuff that act as kind of half-rooms--the nook by the front door where my computer is that everyone who has been in chat is familiar with, for example, and another one at the top of the stairs where my wife's sewing center is. Most of our time is spent in the shared downstairs areas, which is much nicer than being segregated in various parts of the house.

We put money down on a 2700 square foot house before we bought this one, and it seemed like waaay too much. It was just lots of wasted space--a 20x20 master bedroom with a 20 x 10 walk-in closet and a 20x10 master bathroom, three other 12 x 15 bedrooms upstairs with walkins, and a second smaller master suite downstairs (bigger than the master suite in the house we bought) for guests. The living space was very open also, it would definitely need to have been divided with furniture to be useable.

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