April 26th, 2009

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November 16, 2010

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I enjoy watching House Hunters on the HGTV network, where a single person, couple, or family decides which house to buy after touring three of them.

Yesterday I watched in amazement as a woman said she was concerned that a 4,000 sq. foot house wasn’t enough room for herself, her husband and three small children.

Four thousand feet isn’t enough? Gimme a break!

I grew up with two parents and four siblings in a 1,250 sq. foot house and survived. And here’s the incredible part. All seven of us shared ONE bathroom and we didn’t die.

My husband and I share a 1,700 sq. foot home and that’s plenty of house for two people. In fact, we don’t even use the two front rooms at all. One is I guess what you’d call a sitting room. We don’t sit in there. We store crap in there.

The other room is our dining room. Ha! Dining room. That’s rich. We barely cook. So we have more crap and decorative items in there that we could do without if we had to.

Together we watched another episode of House Hunters where a couple sought an apartment in Paris. They had a budget of $300,000US and wound up buying a flat with no more than 400 sq. feet!

We agreed we could totally live in that small space. The payoff, of course, is that we’d be living in Paris.

How much house do you have? Do you wish you had more? Could you live with less? What would you want in exchange for less room?