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I have a multi generational household right now with my father staying in our finished basement. It’s working out very well, but we also have a fairly big house
by api 4y ago
I have a multi generational household right now with my father staying in our finished basement. It’s working out very well, but we also have a fairly big house in the Midwest. I’m not sure it could work for us in a small place. It’d be hard for my wife and I to have a relationship or any intimacy.
Other cultures deal with this though. I’m sure it can be done. There’s ways to build privacy into a small place. Did it in college. But it would require some changes to how we expect to use the space, something more like a dorm with common areas than a traditional house.
- FooBarBizBazz 4y agoOpen floor plans are one small part of the problem. Older houses have separate rooms so people can have more psychological space, when they want it. Granted, that was for the comparatively rich. Poor people might all live in a one-room cottage with a dirt floor. In some places, many still do.