How big is your house/apartment? *And yard?

[moosmom]

I live in less than 1000 sq. ft. It's a 2 room studio and is getting kinda cramped because of all my little furry and non-furry kids. I make the best of it. I USED to have 1200 square feet in Michgan that included heat, hot water and cable tv!!!

You can have all room in the world. Unless you're happy, it don't mean $hit!!!

I may not have tons of room, but I'm damn happy!! It's my little "oasis".

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Our house is somewhere between 1,800-2,000 sq. feet. We also are lucky to have a really large yard. It's 4 bedrooms and myself, my husband and daughter with our 3 dogs and 3 cats have plenty of space.

My brother and nephew moved in with us last summer...we still have plenty of room and I think the fact that sometimes it feels too small has to do with the fact that we have extra house guests more than the actually space. : /

Like others said, your stuff ends up filling up whatever space you do have. Good luck and have fun house hunting!!

[Taz_Zoee]

Our house is around 1300 sq ft. With the two of us and the four furkids I think it's just the right size. We have our bedroom, a guest room (Jax's room), and office (Bruce works from home) and a music studio (connected with the kitchen) with a small room off that for the drum set. And the living room. But the best part is our house is at the end of the court, so our backyard is much larger than other houses on the court. Makes for a great yard for the dogs to get as much exercise as they need.

Good luck with the house hunting. I hope you find the perfect home for you and your family.

[Freedom]

My house is a 3 bedroom ranch, with an addition on the rear adding the master bedroom, master bath off that, and a huge family room. It is 1440 sq. feet of living space.

I insisted on all one floor when we were searching, for a few reasons:
- that is what I grew up with
- my knees are going
- my Dad lived w/me when I bought, and I knew stairs would be a huge issue for him
- as it turns out, the lack of stairs is great for my dogs (my cats are up and down the cellar and love having the extra space)

Also, having Dad with me and having his diagnosis, I knew we needed something with a walk in shower, and we wanted 2 bathrooms if at all possible (old men go a LOT!!!). This house offered both! Dad has the master bedroom and bath, and it is just great. The times he's been in Rehab or had Visiting Nurses come in, they measure and assess his living space, and have never had any suggestions for improvement! Yes, his "master bath" is tiny, but it works for him.

The lot is small, as I am in the city, just barely .24 acre. That is POINT 24. The back yard is fenced in (by Dad and I) for the dogs. While is it plenty of space for 5 small dogs, I doubt it would work for your large ones. As of last Fall, I've taken out the veggie garden, recovered real estate, to give the pups more room. Mine can get into a full gallop for quite a bit from one end to the other.

[davidpizzica]

I share a room here at Concordia with my buddy and I know it's way under 1,000 sq ft. including our bathroom! Barry and I call it our ''Mancave!"

[Husky_mom]

not sure about the size.. but small.. enough but small.. it has two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs...

downstairs is the living room/dining room/kitchen/laudry room area.. it´s all contiguous and another half bathroom.. then there´s the yard.. and the front parking space...

I tried converting square meters to square feet.. but it can´t be right.. lol.. it gave me close to Taz_zooe´s but from her description her house sounds way bigger than mine is..

[finn's mom]

Including our converted garage (David's making it into a "man cave"), our house is around 2200 square feet, it's a three bedroom with a living and front room (technically it's a formal dining room, but that's where I have my photography studio set up), and two bathrooms (both have showers, one has a tub)...not sure how big our yard is, but it's big enough. I'd say about a quarter acre, but I'm really guessing.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

1200 sq ft 3bedroom, 2 full baths. 2 of the bedrooms are kinda small (like 10x12, maybe?) so we use them for office and a spare bedroom. Master bedroom is plenty big. Overall it's perfect for me, my boyfriend, and 2 cats. House sits on 2 acres, but the lot is long and skinny, plus the backyard is mostly wooded. Overall I'd guess we have an acre of usable lawn.

[jennielynn1970]

I live in a row home built in 1900, but it's actually very large for a row, it's 2400sqft. I have a huge basement (as yet unfinished), an almost double livingroom, dining room, kitchen and 5 bedrooms. 1 room I use as a cat litter box room, and it's kinda destroyed at this point. I ripped up the carpet and it's just plank flooring. Not a pretty sight. But the kitties destroyed the carpet, and now I'll have to redo the flooring at some point, and put down something that if they do pee or poop on it, it won't get destroyed.

One of the other bedrooms is my library. I wanted a library so badly for so long, and now with this house I finally have one! I have bookshelves that I got off of ebay from South America somewhere, although I think I got ripped and they were just something that the guy from NY had had made to sell on ebay, lol. I'm so naive!!! The top floor was an attic, but it was finished and is now 2 bedrooms. We redid them for Dave's girls, but now he is unable to see his daughters (his wife put a restraining order on him and they took the children away for 18 months!! It's just ridiculous what happens when you don't have a lawyer to help you when you have to go to court with these things). The bedrooms will still be here for them when the order is dropped, and hopefully they will be back again. I miss the girls!!

I have NO yard. I added on a back deck to take away what small yard I did have. It was basically a puddle of mud. I hated it. Now I have a Trek deck and I have privacy and security and I love it!!

I could get away with having a smaller house, but I figured when I moved in, if I could get this house for what I got it for financially, then why not go for a 5BR house?? I've grown to really love the place, and I can see me staying here for a long time to come. Even if the city keeps getting worse, hopefully we can keep our block our of trouble and crime free.

[dab_20]

My apartment is about 1200 sq ft. 2 bed 2 bath, mostly open layout for an apartment. It's me and my mom and the two dogs and we love it! Nice size and shape for an apartment kitchen, my mom's room is huge, and my bathroom is big! The rent is about $920 a month.

We don't have a yard. However, there's plenty of grass and paths to walk on throughout the complex, almost like a park! There is also an off leash area which is perfect for playing fetch with the dogs.

Which area are you looking at, Amy? (if you don't mind me asking) I know the Salt Lake Valley is sooo expensive and all the yards seem so tiny. Although, if I remember right, you live a ways from here.

[kittycats_delight]

not sure about the size.. but small.. enough but small.. it has two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs...

downstairs is the living room/dining room/kitchen/laudry room area.. it´s all contiguous and another half bathroom.. then there´s the yard.. and the front parking space...

I tried converting square meters to square feet.. but it can´t be right.. lol.. it gave me close to Taz_zooe´s but from her description her house sounds way bigger than mine is..

Try this link Isabel.

I used it to covert ours. We have about 1300 sq feet which is way too small for the 4 people living here and the animals. It would be great if it were just Guido & I but not with 4 of us.

[pomtzu]

Ours is 2352 sq ft. The original house was 1568, but then we put an addition on. There are 3 adults and one teenager residing here full time, and occasionally another teen - when my granddaughter is home from college and splits her time between us (her dad), and her mother. Then there's my 2 dogs and my son's 2 cats.

We have 2 master suites each with it's own attached full bath (one on each end of the house), and then 2 smaller bedrooms with a full bath in between them, living room, dining room, family room, big kitchen, laundry and mud room, unfinished media & sitting room. It's all on one floor - an L-shaped ranch. We have no basement - water table is very high in this area and it would constantly be wet. Also have 1.5 car detached garage, and this all sits on a 2 acre lot.

For us, it's not too small or not too big either. When you have no basement, then you really do need more living space.

[kokopup]

When I built our house my mindset at that time was BIG. I had spent the last 25 years traveling the world for GE, so I ask them to leave me alone for a year because I planned to build our dream house. I was the Contractor and had someone else do those things that I was not comfortable doing my self. I had someone else do framing. sheetrock, plumbing, and Heat/air heatpump, so Celia and I did the rest ourself. What we ended up with was way to much house for 2 people. Our total Square footage is about 4190 with 3800 being finished. When I finish the remaining 390 sq we will have a 1200sq complete apartment down stairs. The apt space now is where I have My bedroom, Home theater and a full bath. When finished it will have another bedroom and a kitchen. Once I have pasted to the Great Beyond this could be rental space that will help Celia with expenses. This would be ideal for college students.


The house has a 750 sq foot covered front porch.This is where Koko usually spends her time. In the back off of my home theater is a 400 sq foot covered patio. I just finished laying the 900 dutch pavers that make up this patio. I am in the process of making a court yard off the patio that will have a space of 450 sq that will have a 2 foot rock wall with a 3 foot aluminum fence on top that looks like Wrought Iron. I have spent the last month assembling my fence while I watched TV. The top rail of the fence is shaped like an inverted U. While assembling the fence I have laced 660 LED Christmas tree lights in the top rail between the spindles. When the fence is up complete the LED will put a subdued light over the courtyard. I will also have around 400 LED lights that will put a hushed light on the covered patio. None of the lights are visible because I put a Lexan window between each spindle. I am looking forward to completing this project. Right now I am having to wait for some dryer weather so I can do the footing for my rock wall.

The court yard should tie in nicely with my patio since the wall area under the patio is stacked rock. The entire lower level of my house is covered with natural field stone stacked so that there is no cement showing. I hope to have the entire project finished by spring.

[Taz_Zoee]

not sure about the size.. but small.. enough but small.. it has two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs...

downstairs is the living room/dining room/kitchen/laudry room area.. it´s all contiguous and another half bathroom.. then there´s the yard.. and the front parking space...

I tried converting square meters to square feet.. but it can´t be right.. lol.. it gave me close to Taz_zooe´s but from her description her house sounds way bigger than mine is..

I could be wrong on the sq footage of my house. I'll have to check with Bruce. I also don't know the size of our lot. I'll have to ask him that one too.
Now I'm thinking the house might be around 1500 instead of 1300. I'll get back to you.