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1.
What is the definition of a monster home?
>2,500sq ft
>5,000
>10,000
2. How
many people are using it? (square feet per person)
In
other words one person in a 2,500 square foot house is using more space than an
extended family (parents, 2 children, one set of grandparents and an elderly
aunt) in a 14,000 square foot house. (14,000/7)
3.
What are the uses?
a. How
much of the square footage is actually indoor/outdoor space
(greenhouses/atriums, etc...)
b.
Home offices (parents don't commute to work everyday hence less transportation
pollution and business rents less office space)
I live
in NYC in a 1200 sq foot house. My wife and I are calculating the square
feet we need for ourselves, home offices for the two of us,
space for a set of elderly parents to move in, space
for kiddies. Not here yet :-)
Ideally we would create two homes in one, separated by an enclosed
atrium/garden. Including the enclosed atrium, garage, workroom, tool
shed we're over 10,000 sq feet.
--
gilbert midonnet
Dear Folks on the GBList,
I'm a design writer. My work gets published
in "style" magazines, newspapers, etc. (I write as "green" as I can; for
example, a couple of years ago I did a solarization article for Log Home
Illustrated Magazine, and I've serveral articles on the solar home
tour for the local newspaper here in Cleveland, OH.)
Here's a question for us to mull
over:
With regard to the 14,000 square foot home
that's been the object of some discussion on the list, is it homeowners
demanding bigger and more luxurious and more resource-consuming homes for
themselves or is it architects (who want to "leave something for posterity and
make a living"), builders and interior designers/planners (ditto the above),
and product manufacturers (who just want to make a living) who present
people who want to buy and build their own homes with only the
bigger-is-better options/products/materials?
Homebuilders are only going to be able to want
(OK, maybe it's lust-after) what they are shown. In other words,
they aren't going to be able to imagine/envision a resource-consuming, trophey
home if they have not been presented with it as an (sometimes the only)
option.
I'm not beating up on builders and architects and
interior designers (and "style magazines, too) with this question. I
really wonder where the "homeowners' wants/needs/desires and the
designer/builder/decorator's need to make a living (and ego, too)
intersect.
Oh well, this is another one of those food for
thought questions.
Eileen Beal, MA
Writer - Editorial
Consultant
3205 Meadowbrook Blvd., Apt. 7
Cleveland Heights, OH
44118
(216) 320-1358
eojb@visn.net
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