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Post by alexa11 on Aug 27, 2018 19:22:04 GMT
Mine is around 1100- could almost qualify as a tiny house-lol.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 27, 2018 19:23:41 GMT
We've been in our house almost 30 years. I know the square footage of it then and now that we added a fifth bedroom. I also know the square footage of the apartment we lived in prior to this house. I also know my credit card numbers, ssn, and phone numbers of my family and friends. I also can tell you all of the good exit numbers from here to my home town. I'm not a huge fan of math, but I do love numbers.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 27, 2018 19:52:06 GMT
Might I ask what is a box room is used for? US pea with an approx 3200 sq foot single level home. Our basement is approximately the same size as the actual upstairs, but is not included in the calculation. It would be in the neighborhood of 6000 sw feet if it all counted. Neither is the attached garage. Our basement is partially heated. As an aside, we were advised not to completely finish the various rooms we have in the basement as they would add to our already high property taxes. Those taxes are determined by sq footage. I am sitting in a large room in the basement as I type. It has a finished ceiling and it has a floor. The floor is not considered permanent as it can be rolled up (it's a type of a padded gymnasium flooring, something we put in when we moved in with an active 4 year old who thought nothing of trying a tumbling pass she saw on TV!) We have another room that is used as a gym. Left the ceiling open and used large interlocking thick tiles (I forget what they are called). Just storage - a box room is tiny. Originally a box room would have been designed to store boxes in, like trunks, suitcases, packing cases, I suppose. Ours is 5'4"x11' - just big enough for a child's bed (with the door not being able to open fully) and a little wardrobe at one end. We use it for storage and for drying the laundry in the winter, since its ventilation is poor so we have a dehumidifier in there anyway. A gym AND a room used as a gym... wow. I'm envious. Think how much crafting space I could use that for...
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Aug 27, 2018 20:22:45 GMT
Yes, my home is just under 1500 square feet.
It's interesting that here, in the US, it's so common to know the square footage of a house or apartment. And in other countries you usually don't know.
The square footage of most houses and apartments in the US is available on the internet. One can look up almost any address and get an idea of the size.
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Post by jackie on Aug 27, 2018 20:59:17 GMT
I think the square footage is nice because it’s a number that gives you a quick hit at knowing a house size. You can look at that one number and quickly know if a house is in the general ballpark size-wise of what you’re looking for. Then, if you know the general size, you look at more details—configuration and size of rooms, number of bathrooms and bedrooms, closets, etc. Square footage is just a starting point. All real estate listings in the US include the number and dimensions of each room in addition to the overall square footage.
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Post by muggins on Aug 27, 2018 21:16:04 GMT
Interesting discussion! When I bought a house in the US, I was confused by the sf, it doesn’t mean anything to me. Each country has its own way of yielding and listing homes. In Japan, the living area is measured in tatami mats rather than sf. In Vietnam, property taxes are based on the width of the house, so many homes in Hanoi are the width of a single garage but 5 storeys high!!
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Post by arielsmom on Aug 27, 2018 21:20:07 GMT
Our home is 1200 sq ft, which does not include the finished basement (no outside egress), or the 4 season room (another 300 sq ft).
Our northern home is 800 sq ft, but has 3 storage buildings and a huge garage for toy storage ( 5 kayaks, 2 canoes, 2 paddle boards, 1 sail boat, ATV, trailer, patio heater, etc.) We have a large deck, and a outdoor pavilion, as we spend as much time as possible outside.
My housekeeper (Me!) struggles to keep that all clean. Right now the house is dusty, and will stay that way as we are getting ready to leave for quite a while with our travel trailer.
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Post by chaosisapony on Aug 27, 2018 21:24:37 GMT
What is a four seasons room?
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Post by jen on Aug 27, 2018 21:32:28 GMT
Yes, square footage seems to be the first thing you know about homes here. Our first home we bought 25 years ago, was a tiny 1300 square foot contemporary home. Our current home is a large 4500 square feet, with a large garage and an unfinished basement which is not included in the square footage. I prefer the tiny home over the large one.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 27, 2018 21:42:22 GMT
I think the square footage is nice because it’s a number that gives you a quick hit at knowing a house size. You can look at that one number and quickly know if a house is in the general ballpark size-wise of what you’re looking for. Then, if you know the general size, you look at more details—configuration and size of rooms, number of bathrooms and bedrooms, closets, etc. Square footage is just a starting point. All real estate listings in the US include the number and dimensions of each room in addition to the overall square footage. That’s how I’ve thought of it too. We are looking at another RV and we know what length we want. To me that is similar to sq ft of a house. We start at length (RV) or square feet (house) and go from there
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 27, 2018 21:44:45 GMT
I know ours - 90sqm. It is pretty standard here to see the floor area in sqm in house/apartment listings. I am still lost when it comes to square footage, as I don't know the conversion between square feet and square meters. It is about 968 square feet.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 27, 2018 21:49:53 GMT
Just a fun fact from Google.
Over the last 42 years, the average new US house has increased in size by more than 1,000 square feet, from an average size of 1,660 square feet in 1973 (earliest year available from the Census Bureau) to 2,687 square feet last year.Jun 5, 2016.
I think most people in America go by square footage. It doesn't include unfinished areas or areas like closets (usually). Houses are also ranked by cost per square foot. New houses can cost anywhere from $125 a square foot and up.
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Post by FurryP on Aug 28, 2018 1:29:22 GMT
Yes, I do.
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Post by FurryP on Aug 28, 2018 1:31:51 GMT
Houses are also ranked by cost per square foot. New houses can cost anywhere from $125 a square foot and up. LOL...I thought that was only the new million dollar+ houses. Watch too much Million Dollar Listing, I guess.
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Post by LeaP on Aug 28, 2018 1:36:33 GMT
Did the math, my house is 112 sqm. Tiny by American standards.
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Post by TXMary on Aug 28, 2018 1:42:20 GMT
We built our house 19 years ago and it’s 2100 square feet.
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Post by beaglemom on Aug 28, 2018 2:10:31 GMT
Our current house is 4,200 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 4 full/2 half bath, office, family room, kitchen, formal dining, formal living, and laundry room. Our old house was 5,000. We are a family of 6. Under the house we can add another floor and when we sell the other house we are going to look into doing that and we would gain another 1,500 - 2,200 sq ft.
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Post by laureljean on Aug 28, 2018 4:16:00 GMT
Not sure. When we bought it, the seller told us it was 1600 square feet. We recently got an estimate for insulation and they told us 1500 square feet. So I guess, somewhere in between the two.
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Post by paget on Aug 28, 2018 4:42:13 GMT
Yep. It’s 2600. Our previously house was 2100 and before that we lived in a 750 sq ft apartment.
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Post by seaexplore on Aug 28, 2018 4:50:13 GMT
First house was 2,115
Current house is 2,683
I know both because we designed and built them ourselves. 😀
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Aug 28, 2018 5:34:30 GMT
Square footage of my second floor condo is 1,482. The house I lived in before my divorce was 1,500 sqf..... but had 80 acres.
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Post by femalebusiness on Aug 28, 2018 6:06:39 GMT
You can just put your address into zillow.com and it will tell you the sq ft of the house and lot.
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Post by anniefb on Aug 28, 2018 6:33:10 GMT
I only know mine because my house was valued a few years ago. 165m2.
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Post by ntsf on Aug 28, 2018 6:56:47 GMT
mine is 1645 sq ft. insurance companies use the figure for rebuilding... like right now in my town, it costs $500-$1000 a sq ft to build something. .. all the value is really in the land, not the house, though the house is nice.
it is also used by govt.. we can only building on so much percentage of our lot.. so it is listed by sq ft on the lot and sq ft on the house..
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Post by AllieC on Aug 28, 2018 8:47:39 GMT
Aussie here and no clue what out house is. Even with recent house hunting/building investigations it has not been mentioned once. We had two real estate agents appraise our house and it didn’t come up then either.
As posted above, most listings will have floor plans and extensive photos. Some will mention “squares” but not all. It would seem like bragging to us for someone to mention the size of their house but I see it mentioned on here and US tv shows all the time so obviously different there.
When I’m searching listings I’ll do it by bedrooms, bathrooms and living spaces etc.
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Post by zella on Aug 28, 2018 9:49:12 GMT
RedSquirrelUK, 1150 sq ft would be considered small to very small everywhere I've lived in the US (Arizona, Colorado, Washington). We sold our house today; woohoo!!!!! Well, we signed a contract. Closing isn't until Dec. 1st and our vacate date isn't until Dec. 31st. Our house has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms upstairs, along with a ridiculously large linen closet/room (the size of a box room in the UK). First floor has living room, den, family room, dining room, kitchen, hallway, half bath (i.e. downstairs loo) and large laundry room. It also has a moderately large sunroom and a large partially finished office/shop, neither of which is included in the square footage. Our lot is just over 1/2 an acre. Our house is on the smaller end of houses on Bainbridge Island. There are a lot of homes in the 3000-5000 sq ft. area. We sold our house without it ever hitting the market or I'd show you guys the listing. The house directly across the street went on the market a couple of days ago. It's supposedly about the same square footage, lot is slightly smaller and far less private. There was an older home there, and they knocked it down and built a 4 bed 4 bath home in 2016. The asking price is just under a million. Suffice to say our sale was WAAAAAAAAYYYY less than that. Here's a link to that house if you're interested. Expensive house. Funny fact: in the photo looking out through the open front door, you can see our (bright blue) house right across the street!
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Aug 28, 2018 15:15:01 GMT
Mine is 1500 sq ft, and the land is just over half an acre, which is large for my neighborhood. If you know what properties are selling for in your area, you can pretty closely calculate how much per square foot a house will sell for in my area. There are other factors (schools, condition, etc.), but the sq. ft. will give you a good guesstimate.
The house is a tiny bit small to me, but it is just DD and me, so I can't justify something bigger.
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Post by Jockscrap on Aug 28, 2018 19:49:43 GMT
Interesting conversation as it’s showing it definitely is a big thing in the US and not in the UK, so it wasn’t just me living in a bubble of unawareness. What interests me too, are the things that aren’t included in the sq footage. A large garage, lots of big cupboards and an unheated basement or conservatory would all be big selling points to me, but the sq footage, if I have picked you up correctly, wouldn’t include those. I’m thinking a search filtered to a minimum sq footage might possibly not show a great property with potential. I watch a few property programmes, and location and number of bedrooms rather than size seem to be the biggest factors in determining price. Often in makeover home improvement shows, a large bedroom might be divided into two, or a bathroom made smaller to turn an adjacent boxroom into a bedroom, so that even though the sq footage of the house would be exactly the same as the next door neighbours, it would be worth more instantly because of the increase in the number of bedrooms.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2018 20:08:46 GMT
Interesting conversation as it’s showing it definitely is a big thing in the US and not in the UK, so it wasn’t just me living in a bubble of unawareness. What interests me too, are the things that aren’t included in the sq footage. A large garage, lots of big cupboards and an unheated basement or conservatory would all be big selling points to me, but the sq footage, if I have picked you up correctly, wouldn’t include those. I’m thinking a search filtered to a minimum sq footage might possibly not show a great property with potential. I watch a few property programmes, and location and number of bedrooms rather than size seem to be the biggest factors in determining price. Often in makeover home improvement shows, a large bedroom might be divided into two, or a bathroom made smaller to turn an adjacent boxroom into a bedroom, so that even though the sq footage of the house would be exactly the same as the next door neighbours, it would be worth more instantly because of the increase in the number of bedrooms.My cousin did something similar, they converted the loft into a bedroom and an en suite. Instantly the value of their house went into the next bracket above the valuation of the house next door because of the extra bedroom and the en suite. Both technically had the same sq footage
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Post by mallie on Aug 28, 2018 20:25:17 GMT
2027 sq feet. 2 bath, 3 beds and 1 office, plus "bonus" space at the front of the house. (Odd configuration, IMO.)
I really wanted a smaller house. The cleaning of this size of a house is far too much for me (or rather my motivation). The 2 houses I liked better were both under 1800 sq feet. Which felt right to me. I will note that as is typical of homes in this area, there is NO storage -- no basement, no attic, no big closets even. Everyone has a storage unit. (It's where we keep my husband's collections and all holiday decor.)
I could NEVER live in a tiny house. Far too claustrophobic. In fact, my craft room in this house actually inhibits me from working in it because I find that room (10x12') claustrophobic. So no way could I stand a tiny house.
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