What Size House Are We Looking At?
When I mentioned that I felt like we were going to need to compromise a bit on interior space, a reader asked what I meant by this in terms of square footage. Of course what you need is particular to your own family, but for us – two kids under four, two small dogs, and two people who both do a lot of work at home (Kendrick with music, myself with everything you see here) – what that works out to is at least 1500 square feet.
What we’d like to find is a 3-bedroom house with some kind of extra living space: a backyard with extra room for the kids to play, or (ideally) a family room right off of the kitchen. We get that the bedrooms will likely be tiny if part of the square footage is taken up by a family room; that’s preferable for us. (And if you’re looking, always remember that the square footage that you see listed may not be the actual square footage; our house, for example, is technically about 1200 square feet but has two bonus spaces that aren’t included in the square footage – the finished attic and the garage, which has been converted into a studio – that make it feel quite a lot more spacious.)
