Originally Posted by Curt Kurt
I will say that we are starting a family and we will be building a 2500 sqft house though (including home offices) flame me if you must for building a house that is too large, but according to the town planning and zoning, our house will be the smallest residential structure built around us within recent memory( save additions).
Build what you will , mate. However, consider using a old building method empolyed in older homes
that allow you to close off parts of the house when not needed. If you look at older homes there are
few hallways and many doors to allow "flexing" of the house to match the need. I can close off all but
one room of my old house or chose to leave it all open as there is no hallway at all in my house as
all the doors open into a core room. Modern house plans waste much space on hallways so design the
house to elimnate them as much as possible.