The formal dining room has now become the home office. My grandparents raised 5 kids in a 900 sq foot home. They weren't poor. That was the typical home being

The formal dining room has now become the home office. My grandparents raised 5 kids in a 900 sq foot home. They weren't poor. That was the typical home being built in the working class suburbs of Detroit in the early 1950s. Average new home being built today is twice that size for a smaller household.