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Small
-- no. But I can easily see using more than 2000 square
feet.
Two
home offices will easily use 400 square feet
Work
room with accompanying storage will easily use 100 square
feet
Two
car garage (if one lives in the country and are not home bound there is no
choice but having two vehicles) plus storage for
bicycles/skiis/tires/etc.... 400 square feet ??? don't know the standard
size
now
add to that the 906 foot you're currently using and one gets to 2000 very
easily.
Hi everyone,
This is a little coincidence here for me, I had
just checked out "creating the not-so-big house" from the library when this
discussion began....one of the homes in it is in my town, Beaufort, SC, in an
extremely (in my opinion) ritzy subdivision.
I live with my husband, two kids, and two large
breed dogs in a slowly crumbling 906 sq. foot trailer, excuse me, mobile
home. The houses in this book that are called "not so big" look
enormously huge to me. We are thinking of building three small
structures that will eventually be, in total, approx. 1500 square feet.
Some of the homes in the book are pretty cool but for the most part I did
not see anything especially exciting. However I was watching extreme
homes on HGTV and saw a really awesome example of something like we want to do
with our land, several structures, small in size and well placed to avoid as
much damage to the landscape as possible-this really cool hawaiian tree house,
etc. Did anyone else see that? and also, does building in a tree have a
damaging effect on the tree or can it be done without hurting it? Just
curious, we don't have any suitable trees here for that, or at least I haven't
seen one that has just cried out "build a house on me", actually I am likely
not to do that since I love trees more than I love most of my relatives and
would feel like I was imposing (still haven't figured out how I am going to
deal with having to put wood structures up to live in since that is made from
former trees, hoping to find alternatives before I get that far, which is why
I joined this list, obviously)
Anyway, I don't see how anyone could call a 2000
square foot house small.
Elizabeth
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