Changing Trend in Homes: Going Smaller

Reader Contribution by Bruce Mcelmurray
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Downsizing

When we moved to our current retirement home we discussed what we wanted and what would best suit us. We were living in a three story home with the bottom story being a basement. The square footage was about 1,800 square feet, and it was situated in a large city in Pennsylvania. It was satisfactory to have visitors and family but was a lot of house to keep clean and maintain for two people.

We decided we did not want another large house to keep clean, maintain, heat and cool for just us. It was time to downsize! Our retirement home has 768 square feet and we are not slaves to maintaining a house. We can handle 1 or 2 guests at a time providing we use a pull out sofa bed. It takes some juggling to schedule the single bathroom but it is clearly workable as long as our guests are not bathroom hogs.

Both my wife and I grew up in homes that only had one bathroom and that worked very well. You learn quickly that you have to be considerate to get along with family. We have never considered going smaller, but recently we have been watching a new trend on one of our television channels about tiny homes which we find intriguing.

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