ideally, how many square feet would you like to have for your place of dwelling (for living by yourself)

My studio's about 550 ft^2 and it's really the maximum amount of space I'm able to easily keep clean.

I don't know what measurements look/feel like when translated to apartments. It's not the amt of space that matters as much as the use of space, though, overwhelmingly.

I don't have a very good ability to visualise measurements, so I had to go to the 'plan collection' website to look at some house examples. Except most of them seem to be single floor dwellings (bungalows, basically) or have the entirety of the ground floor taken up by garages. Weird. I know that my ideal is to be back living in a proper house, with an upstairs and a downstairs... basically a traditional two up, two down. Hate flats, don't see why a bungalow would be much better except for the neighbours being further away.

So I am guessing that that would be either in the top end of 750-1000, or the bottom end of 1000-1500, but I'm not sure which. So, sod it, I'll go for the larger option. I can make the extra bit a recording studio or something.

two up, two down would be maybe 1100 sq ft id imagine

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Ambani_house_mumbai.jpg/220px-Ambani_house_mumbai.jpg

400,000 sq ft

Yes but when you beat Sim City 2000 it takes off into space.

enough to lie down

500-750 square feet would be both comfortable but not too big to keep clean

Whoaaaaaa @ nakh's 400ker.

I mean, I could probably expand into a way huger house and have a great old time, but if I had a really big place I'd almost certainly have a friend or two renting from me (assuming I was not partnered). Whereas a two-up, two-down I *have* lived in on my own before. And I'd like to again. Not a chance in the South-East, though.

Also I don't really care about the 'keeping things clean' aspect, which seems to be a reason for other people staying small. Fuck it, I want a synth room!

Under suicide watch, Dominique Strauss-Kahn wears a specially designed jumpsuit and lives in a tiny cell, monitored by a guard positioned just a few steps away, sources said Wednesday. The 11 x 13 foot (3.3 x 3.9 meters) cell is in the West Facility of the infamous Rikers Island prison, located in Manhattan’s swirling East River…

Zaarath and Christopher Prokop -- and their two cats -- live in the smallest apartment in the city, a 175-square-foot "microstudio" in Morningside Heights the couple bought three months ago for $150,000.

Yeah tbh even in my current pad I can't say keeping it clean is a huge success.

I like posting this every chance I get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

that is mukesh ambani's house but with 600 servants it must get crowded for him

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_%28building%29

Really I want to live in Pierre Cardin's house.

I could live fine in around 400-500 if I had to, that's probably generous for a single person a the global scale. But with that should also be sunlight and some outdoor access (patio, roof, yard, balcony) and some ability to customize the space: most people don't need a dining room for anything, EVER, but one person might have dinners every week and need it. (Floor plans with a liv rm and a dining rm and an eat-in kitchen and two walk-in closets and a two-bay garage that is larger than any two rooms of the house--that's where I start getting Irrationally Iatee.)

But my dream is for more like twice that much, probably.

could prob live in one of those Japanese hotels where they slide you into a shelf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel

seems p cool, like sleepin on the top bunk in a room with low ceilings

my answer to this depends on whether I'm working from home or not

Pierre Cardin's house, wow.

Not everyone liked Lovag‘s creation when it was finished in 1990, many went as far as to call it Crazy-house

New micro genre sited...
Also the 'You Might Also Like' links for that page are, er...
'Evil Clown Will Stalk and Attack Your Child for a Fee' and
'Dutch Artist Turns Dead Cat into Remote-Controlled Helicopter'

Crazy house indeed...

Also, not exactly the place for people with trypoopophobia.

OTOH, paint it yellow and you could pretend that you were living in a giant Swiss cheese.

ideally, i would like to have 4,000 feet or so. nice big open spaces with super high ceilings and lots of windows. areas for different things and with different textures. recording space, storage space, room for work and play and whatever. that would be great.

realistically, i dunno, somewhere in the 500-750 range would be nice and also manageable.

i do fine with 900 sf for two of us
voted 500-750
can keep it clean, know where everything is, don't acquire too many things. and if we're talking houses, that size is easier to manage as far as weatherization, heat control, fixing pipes, understanding how the house works. i don't know how i'd deal with 3-4k sq ft. that gets into the realm of having to call people in to do most anything.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I lived in a 750-square-footer in a high rise and that was plenty. One large room, dressing room with closet and a separate kitchen. I hate galley kitchens!

You just divide the large room into sleeping and living quarters. Living up high you don't feel you need as much space, the sky is your front yard.

I'm a space pig right now because I have my family business to manage. Do most of my living on one floor, though.

i think i have somewhere between 900 and 1100 where i am currently, which is great. only problem is i have downstairs neighbors so my drumset lives in a practice space, even though i have room for it at home.