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Totally agree. Once you've got enough rooms to cover everyone's needs (kids don't have to share a room etc), pretty much any extra expansion is just more stuff
by Nition 8y ago
Totally agree. Once you've got enough rooms to cover everyone's needs (kids don't have to share a room etc), pretty much any extra expansion is just more stuff to clean and maintain. Or if you're rich enough, more stuff to waste money on someone else cleaning and maintaining.
I probably have more of an epicurean outlook than most, but surplus stuff just feels like more stuff for me to worry about.
Plus it takes ages to even get around in really big houses and you're always shouting down the hallway to find where someone is.
- EADGBE 8y agoThe problem is that housing needs change. In fact: > Once you've got enough rooms to cover everyone's needs (kids don't have to share a room etc) This would have been considered opulence 40 years ago.
- vonmoltke 8y agoEven a master bedroom that could fit a king bed without crowding out other furniture as opulence at one point. My wife and I just finished an open house blitz of 30s vintage colonials in New Jersey, and the vast majority could barely fit a queen in the master.
- Nition 8y agoI agree, although what I meant there was that's about the point where making the house bigger stops providing any meaningful improvement. I know it's possible to make do with a lot less.