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2340 sq ft.

house built in the early 70's, 2400 sq ft

its roomy but completely devoid of any architecture or character. Its just living space.

thats more room than I need but I do like that we have areas of the house like a den and a living room so that we can get away from each other.

3000, 2 story(daylight basement) 4/3 on a few acres. I'm working on drawing up the retirement home and was thinking single story 1800', but the wife needs an art room, I need a gun room and a office, So it looks like 3/2 with a basement is the only real option for us. So much for downsizing.

Divorces work really well for that too.

I'm hoping we'll be building next year if it all works out and am gunning for a better man cave situation. Currently that's the garage (you notice how damn small most garages are nowadays? Can't barely get a compact car inside) .

3097 sf

Not enough room with two growing (almost teenage) sons.

1700, plus 1000 sq feet of porch, which is where we spend the majority of time.

I'd prefer about 1000 sq feet.

Our house in California is about 2,800 sq ft on a small lot (about 8,000 sq ft). Our place in Montana is a bit of a monster...it's 5,800 sq ft with a former carriage house as a separate garage with a loft. It's on a good sized lot (close to half acre) in town and it's one of those grand old mansion-type places from the turn of last century that went into disrepair as neighborhoods changed. The last owner fully restored it and it's a bit intimidating to clean and heat, but there is nothing quite like a 1900s era house. Damn thing seems to have a soul (or it could just be the sound of the boiler).

2400 qq ft living area, 4/2 with attached 32 x 24 garage. One shop 24 x 40 with a 24 x 16 carport for the boat! We have thought about down sizing, but neither of us are willing to get rid of the things we collected over the years. It is nice to have the extra bedrooms for company. We could get by with less but why.

1300sqft with 800sqft unfinished basement. 1930s Cape Cod. Rapidly running out of room with my growing family (soon to be 6 of us).

I've owned six homes, they went from smaller 1,800 SF up to bigger 4,000 SF and now smaller with the kids all grown and out. I currently live in a 1,200 SF house on heavily wooded acreage and have never been happier. I've got goats and chickens for the first time and no neighbors that I can see from my property. I can build a chicken coop or a barn without asking permission from any HOA. Less has become more as I age, not buried with massive debt or expense, more time to travel and not worry about keeping up a large estate. I don't need much living space but apparently I do need a big barn!

Where are you in MT? I spent 3 weeks in the Bozeman area last summer and found property to be quite expensive.

My house, of 34 years, is 1600 sq ft. Little cramped when the kids were here, but just about perfect now that it's just me, my wife and our dog. I was a commercial and industrial electrician for 40 years, never in residential. But one shop I worked for my boss sent to a residence to install the electrical gear for the service. That "house" was over 33,000 square feet! Don't know of many houses with an 800 amp service!

I built my place 4 years ago. I designed it for wife and I. It is 1140sq ft on the ground floor with a 600sq ft loft. I designed it with one master bedroom, master bath.
Another full size bath on main floor with a half bath in the loft.
We have plenty of room for the two of us.

Currently about 1900 sf plus two car garage. Downsized from 5000 sf plus four car garage when we retired. Was interesting what we kept vs eliminated when we downsized.

The big house is in Bozeman (I have a small hunting cabin, about 300 sq ft, about 100 miles north of town). We got really lucky with this house...it happens to be right next to a frat house. The couple that owned it before us are ranchers and the wife wanted to try living in town, so they bought this house cheap and fully restored it. The husband simply couldn't deal with living in town, so they moved back to the ranch and put the house up for sale. Most people, including me, refused to even look at the house due to the frat next door. My wife fell in love with the house, so we spent a week or so talking to neighbors about the frat, coming by late at night to see how loud the frat was, etc. We were the only people to make an offer on the house and the sellers accepted it without countering (we made a low, but reasonable, offer). Turned out that the frat guys are actually really good neighbors, so we were able to get a great house at about half the price others go for on this street. Bozeman prices are pretty close to what you'd find in the Bay Area at this point (well, not in the new developments, but for sure in the historic downtown area).

Paid everything off and moved to a cheap house in the country a few years back. Been quite nice. Not sure how many feet we have, but enough. More important actually got some room for the dogs to run around outside.

1,700 SF here with two kids. Well-designed 3br/2ba floorplan with a small office. No wasted space. We'll likely move out to the sticks in the next year or two and 2,000SF +/- would be perfect. Bigger areas for laundry and reloading/gun safe gear is about all the upgrade I actually need.

3800 on 3 acres

2200 for the two of us. More than necessary but she wanted bigger. Big two stall heated garage which is sweet in North Dakota. Ed k

I'm 1870sq ft on main level, 1870 fully finished walk out basement (sheetrocked high ceilings, walk out is on the long side of the house).

More house than we need (wife and two kids), but we bought it cheap, on acreage with major convenience to the town kids go to school in, the town we do most of our shopping in, and the town my office is in.