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I don't know how I can make it in 700 sq ft. apt long block from the Pacific. It's only me and wondering if all you with 12, 13, 14 rooms fill them all up all the time. Lots of houscleaning as I see it.
Our home is an expression of our creativity and we love every square foot of it. It's where we recharge, rejuvenate, relax. We love being surrounded by beauty. I don't work outside the home and I'm in my 50s, so I don't mind the dusting and other housekeeping. That is likely to change when I'm elderly but I'm not right now !
Kitchen/Dining Nook
Dining Room
Laundry Room
Mud Room
Family Room
Office
Formal living Room
Game Room
Media Room
Wet Bar
Two of the bedrooms are guest rooms. One bedroom is ours and another is for our daughter. One bedroom was turned into a gym and the other a playroom. We use all the rooms except for the formal living and dining rooms on a regular basis. (Though admittedly the game room is used most often for building forts out of our pool table, not for playing pool. )
Is a mudroom a "room?" Is it still a "room" if it is instead called an entry? Is a laundry really a "room?" Or is it just a place for a washer and dryer? If the washer and dryer are in the entry does that count as two rooms?
It may depend. Our mudroom is larger than one of our bedrooms. It is separated from other rooms by doors, it has a large closet and shoe shelf and a bathroom off one side of it. If it weren't for the exterior doors to the back and side of the house, it would make a nice bedroom.
However our front entry ("foyer") is about three feet square. It is open to the front stairs, the front parlor and has a door to the back parlor. Basically is a a square to stand in while chosing which direction you will go. No room for furniture or storage. Not a room.
Our laundry room is 20 x 25. It has walls and doors, a big double tub sink, shelving units, ironing board sorting table and a huge bin on wheels for clothing. I would definitely call it a room. However I have seen laundry "rooms" that were bascially a washer and dryer sticking out of a closet. I would not call that a room.
I think a room has certain features:
A place you walk into.
Doors or at least doorways, not just an opening.
Some sort of furniture.
A purpose beyond storage or passage. (A pantry with no purpose but storage or a hallway with no purpose but passage is not a room to me. However a large hallway like a greathall or a large foyer with furniture and a purpose beyond simply walking through it on your way someplace else, could be counted).
Walls (I do not consider an open concept loft or warehouse style layout with an eating area, kitchen, living area demarcated only by a change in flooring to be three separate rooms. It is one room). However some people do consider areas used for a different purpose to be a seperate "room" Thus a kitchen nook might be a room to some and not to others.
I don't know how I can make it in 700 sq ft. apt long block from the Pacific. It's only me and wondering if all you with 12, 13, 14 rooms fill them all up all the time. Lots of houscleaning as I see it.
I am a bike ride away from the beach. Its about two miles from me. But I do see the ocean every day.
Reading some of these responses reminds me of my teenage daughter's visit to a friend's house. The house was about 5,000 sq ft for three people, and the friend humble-bragged about how it might seem large, but they needed all the space and used every room. My daughter reported that most of the rooms had little furniture (a treadmill and some weights in one room, a dining table in another room), and one room had nothing in it at all but a desk.
"What do you use this room for?" she asked.
"Oh, that's my desk room!" was the reply.
My daughter came back quite perplexed, as she is one of five people in 1300 square feet and knows what it really means to "use every room."
Reading some of these responses reminds me of my teenage daughter's visit to a friend's house. The house was about 5,000 sq ft for three people, and the friend humble-bragged about how it might seem large, but they needed all the space and used every room. My daughter reported that most of the rooms had little furniture (a treadmill and some weights in one room, a dining table in another room), and one room had nothing in it at all but a desk.
"What do you use this room for?" she asked.
"Oh, that's my desk room!" was the reply.
My daughter came back quite perplexed, as she is one of five people in 1300 square feet and knows what it really means to "use every room."
There's a big difference between having the space and actually being able to afford the space. If you can't afford to decorate the rooms and you just have them just to have them, you're doing it wrong.
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Originally Posted by KathrynAragon
I make no bones about it - we DON'T use our two guest rooms very often. But when we need them, we have them and we love hosting family.
Exactly. When my mother died, we used both guest rooms, the media room and our daughter's playroom for guests to sleep when they came for the memorial. We host only a couple times a year for holidays, but it would be in bad taste to invite relatives to come for Thanksgiving and then explain they need to get a hotel room somewhere else.
3 bedrooms
1 bathroom
1 sensory room
1 kitchen
1 game room
1 living room
1 dining room
1200 sq feet
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