"D. Gerasimatos" wrote in message
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In article ,
Timm Simpkins wrote:

What are you talking about? It seems that todays houses seem to try to
fit
more rooms in a smaller space. It's rare to find a bedroom larger than
about 120 square feet except master bedrooms.


No. Today's houses have larger rooms and fewer of them. Witness the advent
of the 'great room' and the 'open kitchen'. Victorians loved to have a
million little rooms. I have two bedrooms in my house (1920s) that would
probably be one room today. The house originally had three rooms (pantry,
service porch, and kitchen) where today there is only the kitchen.
(Previous owners joined the three little 8x6 rooms into one contiguous
kitchen). What was the last modern house you were in that had a parlor/
sitting room, library, and music room? Today's houses have 'family rooms'
or 'media rooms' but generally just one of them three times the size of
the
rooms in older houses. You don't even want to know how small (and few in
number) the bathrooms were then as compared to now. The same is true of
closets. Many modern houses have walk-in closets the size of the bedrooms
in my house.

Well, I just know that when I was growing up, the older the house, the
larger the rooms. That has seemed to stay fairly constant for me. On the
other hand, larger houses tend to have larger rooms since it's rare that one
needs a 3000 square foot house for their 2.5 children. The same amount of
rooms, plus additional stuff is normal.

The house I live in now I designed, so the bedrooms are 13'x14' except the
master bedroom. That's still small to me, so the house I'm building will
have even bigger rooms, but I'm moving from a 2800 sq. foot house to a 4200
sq. foot house. That leaves much more space for bedrooms.

Where I live it's common for there to be a living room and a family room,
but if you have a small house you're only going to have a living room that
serves both purposes, kind of like most apartments.