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I'm hoping she takes a picture at the shower. I mentioned it to her today when she called to tell me she had arrived at her destination. (The weather was supposed to be iffy in Missouri and Kansas. She got there just as it was getting icky.) I don't know just how hooked I can get her...she can make quilts but probably won't be a stash addict because she and her DH have moved to a downtown Chicago highrise. She misses her big home in a suburb of KC. They are in a 1500 sq. ft two bedroom which is quite lovely as she will admit.....just a whole heck of a lot smaller than she's had for many many years. It takes a whole new way of thinking to adapt. She doesn't complain...just states facts. Can't be a pack rat with no extra room. You can bet she's plotting their retirement house plans already...."it's going to have a sewing room!".

I can't spell definitely. Ever. I get it wrong every single time.

Cindy

hmmm, looks right to me, Cindy.

Patti, perhaps you ought to 'stand still' and f>I can't spell definitely. Ever. I get it wrong every single time. > Cindy

Good one, Jeanne! . In message , nzlstar* writes

Gosh, Kathyl, I have a small house, too! The entire thing is just under

1500 sq. ft., so you can imagine how small my sewing/computer room is, since it's one of the original three bedrooms. I have a stash -- admittedly not as impressive as some -- so your friend could, too. ;)

Sandy, the both of you live in a mansion! My 3 bedroom/2 bath is just a tad over 1200 sq. ft. And it has a lot of wasted square footage- the hallway is just over 4 ft. wide! The bedrooms sure could have used that wasted 12 inches in the hall width. And the silly laundry room is half as big as the kitchen- more waste. grrr!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

That is about the size of our little house too Sandy. Our little house in San Diego was under 1000 sq. ft. and it took us less than a year to fill the difference. I have 3 sheds out in the back now. One is a really nice one so that is where the back-up stash is residing. With kids this house was a perfect size. Everyone had their own space but they couldn't go into total isolation. My dad has a house over 2300 sq. '. That has its own problems. When divorced kids have somewhere to go they land there. He has 2 elderly kids and a grand there these days! We re-roofed and re-floored this place last year in addition to painting in and out. That is when you can appreciate a smaller house.

Taria

Sandy wrote:

Our condo is probably about that size, too -- maybe a bit smaller. However, we don't have our own laundry and we do have a small (4x8) storage closet in the basement. I do have a stash, but it is overflowing the closet assigned to it. I'm trying to work from my stash, but it seems I am always missing a bit of something for what I want to make :)

Julia in MN

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Leslie & The Furbabies > Sandy, the both of you live in a mansion! My 3 bedroom/2 bath is just a tad

Spell check fixes it for me, Jeanne. Every time.

Cindy

A woman who used to be a good friend is building a 10,000 sq ft house. She and her husband have 2 grown sons. The sons aren't married, but don't live at home. No grandkids, no family they associate with. No friends to have over. She has no hobbies other than shopping. She and her husband barely speak to each other anymore (or so I'm told - she's toxic and I finally had to cull her from my life).

She has a housekeeper 2 days a week in her "smaller" 3,000 sq ft house. I don't know who is going to clean this one.

I'm trying to figure out how to get by with less sq footage than I have now. I don't want to clean the little I've got.

Cindy

I hope I didn't insult anyone. I was just commenting that she has really, really pared down her life right now so her DH can work in downtown Chicago for a few years before he retires again. She wishes she had some of the square footage from the bathrooms in a space she could use for sewing. The new opulence is to have bathrooms you can have a dance in! Silly really. She wants to give me her rug hooking stash. Just what I need, a new "thing". Actually, she got me interested a couple years ago, so I have already started a small wool stash and have the frame and cutter and one rug WIP. I'm hopeless. I guess I just love "stuff". She'll get back to hooking eventually. She does lovely work! It's a repetitive motion, but there are nuances to it that you don't appreciate until you try it. My hooked rows look like bad ears of sweet corn!

You didn't insult anyone, Kathyl. I enjoyed reading about the sizes and peculiarities of our homes. It does puzzle me that houses are being build so big lately. I wonder why. People aren't having big families. They do, however, have to buy big furniture. The furniture stores and home magazines are all showing massive, ponderous furnishings. ??? Our funny farm is the one with two kitchens. We even have a kitchen cabinet for bud vases. Wish Butterfly would come fill them up. Ahhhh. I can just see it now. Polly

Which came first, the massive furniture or the massive houses? ( probably the houses.) It's almost impossible to buy furniture in a smaller scale anymore. DH and I own a darling 1940's house that our kids have alternately lived in while attending college or working. The couches and beds that are in style now would barely fit in the rooms!

Here houses tend to be small, especially the new ones, but furniture is very large! Lots of adverts on TV for giant sofas and King Kong size beds.

Must lead to many smiles from the delivery people - if they can get it through the door!

Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)

You didn't insult anyone, Kathyl. I enjoyed reading about the sizes and

It must be a nightmare for delivery people to figure out how to get the mammoth pieces into the house without damaging the walls or the article of furniture.

I didn't know Pottery Barn had smaller furniture, Taria. I'll have to check that out. As to the two kitchens, somedays they're just twice as much to clean. How sweet it is though when there's something special going on. Polly

"Taria" More than a few of the houses we looked at in the last few years seem

Think your gators would let me out and about to gather a few posies? Or do I have to bring my own? Wonder if they'd let you bring flowers on a plane? Usually see ppl being met with them once they are off the plane--very seldom see anyone carrying a bouquet...............

talk about weird set-ups...we still haven't figured out why they have French Doors in the middle toward the right end of the LR wall going into the master bedroom. why didn't they have you enter from the foyer? You really can't set up the LR without having to walk in front of ppl and the TV and/or fireplace. (We don't use the fireplace but you really aren't set up for the TV to go there without wires all along the 2 walls.) STRANGE! In order to get into the bedroom from the foyer you'd have to go thru the shower and bathroom and between the closets.. even with all our remodeling, we couldn't get around that one. Don't even get me started on the kitchen.......

Good part is: it's close to work and we could afford it after we sold the baby with the farm AND we have decent neighbors.they'll even pick their own lettuce:)

Butterfly (You want it--YOU come pick it and they do and would even pick some for me : ) So far only ONE tomato and the green pepper gave up. Roses are 'resting' )

I did the same thing about 15 years ago. We bought a big 120 yr. old farmhouse. It had a simple but large kitchen with the washer and dryer at one end, There were two dining rooms and one was joined to the old kitchen. I put a 'modern' kitchen with new appliances in one dining room and used the 'old' kitchen as a glorified laundry room. It had an older gas cook stove with pilot lights. The oven's pilot light was great for the warmth needed for my bread dough to raise. As Polly said- it was perfect for holidays and the extra cabinet storage was wonderful! The house was built with hand made nails and it had a wonderful old oak dairy barn- 80 X 100 ft.- on the 12 acres- the rest of the farm had been sold off over the years before we bought the place. We still had horses and goats and geese and chickens and ducks (and six dogs!) and a few head of cattle, so it was the perfect hobby farm. Oh 'The Good Old Days'!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.