Putting my money where my mouth is
Dec. 6th, 2006 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apparentparadoxWe've been contemplating moving out of the Bay Area for a while. Lately, we've been spending time in Ashland, OR, because that is one of the places we might consider moving to. In order to better evaluate living here, we've looked at a few homes to see how much we would have to spend to buy a house that we like in a neighborhood that we like.
A house we saw today fits most of what we would be looking for, but the main living area is small -- under 1000 sq. ft. There's a separate 1 BR basement apartment that is 800 sq. ft., so all together, the house is a bit bigger than our current house.
I've been espousing the idea of the Not So Big House, but now that push comes to shove, I'm not sure if I can follow through on that. Maybe if we were designing the house from scratch, I could live with just 1000 sq. ft., but given that space has already been allocated (and isn't easy to change), I don't know that I like their choices. I'd rather have a larger master bedroom, and a smaller kitchen, for example. However, it isn't easy to move "extra" space from one room to another in an existing house.
Maybe when it comes to buying an existing house, I'm more "Not So Huge" instead of just "Not So Big".
A house we saw today fits most of what we would be looking for, but the main living area is small -- under 1000 sq. ft. There's a separate 1 BR basement apartment that is 800 sq. ft., so all together, the house is a bit bigger than our current house.
I've been espousing the idea of the Not So Big House, but now that push comes to shove, I'm not sure if I can follow through on that. Maybe if we were designing the house from scratch, I could live with just 1000 sq. ft., but given that space has already been allocated (and isn't easy to change), I don't know that I like their choices. I'd rather have a larger master bedroom, and a smaller kitchen, for example. However, it isn't easy to move "extra" space from one room to another in an existing house.
Maybe when it comes to buying an existing house, I'm more "Not So Huge" instead of just "Not So Big".