Exactly. I've often thought at Ikea that I wish I could just live in one of their showrooms. The real irony here is that half of these poor layouts were archit

Exactly. I've often thought at Ikea that I wish I could just live in one of their showrooms. The real irony here is that half of these poor layouts were architects/builders/remodelers trying to be smart and fit as many people into a space as possible and make it so that people would fit into less space. However, due to them doing a really poor job at this when these places were built (or redone) then you end up needing more square footage to live than you would if it was properly laid out. I'm totally happy living in less than 350sq/ft, yet I end up looking at apartments closer to 600sq/ft generally due to poor layouts.