I have about 6000 SF finished but that includes two rental units generating $1200 plus per month, together, income at my house.

The trouble with a big place is you tend to fill it up with lots of stuff you really don't need.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That's a lot of SF.
What's your lot dimensions?
What's your garage capacity/SF like?

To be perfectly frank, a 60' X 150' lot with a 2K SF, 1.5 story, 3 bedroom, 3 bath - with garden apt. 1 bedroom, with a private entrance, and a 3 bay garage in the rear of the dwelling is more to my liking. The shotgun lot, with the private drive on the side to the rear has always appealed to me. My father was a GC & builder for our family for many years and he built one such home in Omaha when I was 9 yrs old. Just a super efficient use of space!

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Agreed in full. If we wanted to move to a smaller house. Where would we put all the junk? I have also been considering hiring a lady to come in say once a week to take some of the cleaning load from the wife. For all too many years we seemed to have made various components of homes too large.


My pet peeve is the size of master bedrooms. . You just usually get dressed and undressed in them. With the bulk of the time they are in use you are asleep in the bed. Even physical activities usually occur in the dark.


So if enough space is created to take a king size bed and a couple of large dressers and perhaps a chair. As long as you can move freely. What more space is needed? Then there are these oversized entrance halls.


For almost all functional purposes our family room four steps below the kitchen and eating area has replaced the living room almost totally. My guess is the general openness of the whole area makes it more desirable to use. The dinning room is not really being used enough to really justify it's existence either.