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[chelidon]

Taste for Space Is Spawning Mansions Fit for a Commoner (subhed: Hot Housing Market Opens Doors to Mini-Taj Mahals)

This is so totally wrong. The amount of waste involved with one of these monstrosities is completely insane. But that's the American Dream..,

...which, no matter what I do or don't think about it, will almost certainly come crashing to a halt as energy prices spiral upwards. I have to admit, I do like big houses, but my thinking is more along the lines of how many people I could fit in it.

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[kaigou.livejournal.com]

If basements were common in this region of the country, we'd probably have a temple. But they're not, so we don't, but I figure eventually I'll need to find out about extending the back of the garage into the back yard, and turning that into meditation/temple space. Still, that'd only top us into maybe 2100 sq feet or so. I simply can't imagine having a 5000 sq foot house, even having lived in one that was 3000 sq-ft while I was in high school. 1700 is plenty by my standards.

Okay, so that might not seem like a lot, but when you're cleaning, it is!

Fffft.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Ah-yup. I think we've got something like 3800 sq ft all total now, not counting the porches and deck, or the outbuildings (garage, barn, etc), but that's 6 or more living full-time in that space, with guests often, and more (sometimes many more ;>) on weekends, etc. It still seems big to me, but I believe it's actually more efficient this way than if we all had our own wee cottage.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Oh, agreed. The space should be curtailed to meet the needs of those who use it. I can't see you having as many residents as you do (let alone so many guests) in a space only as big as our house. Then again, I look at our house and think, we need guests more often, because otherwise this place feels too big to me. There's a whole guest room that's not being used! Horrors.