Big Houses
Mar. 22nd, 2008 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI hung out with my sister most of the day. We met for breakfast. Then went to the wildflower center. Then toured model homes.
The model homes were all huge, ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 square feet. One of them had eight dining areas. We dubbed it the dinner party house. One had six living rooms. I swear.
Most had those kind of master bedrooms where you could add a kitchenette to one wall and call it a large efficiency apartment.
One had a porch with not only stone tile floors, columns, and ceiling fans, but also a built-in kitchen.
Only one (of five) had a laundry room big enough to keep an ironing board set up in.
One had a lady telling another lady, in a disgusted tone of voice, that "everything is standard." No! Not standard! The horror!
I did see one design element I thought I might be able to copy in my house, a corner pantry. But I see now that my kitchen, which I think of as a reasonably sized kitchen, much better than those galley kitchens in so many apartment complexes, really isn't quite big enough.
The model homes were all huge, ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 square feet. One of them had eight dining areas. We dubbed it the dinner party house. One had six living rooms. I swear.
Most had those kind of master bedrooms where you could add a kitchenette to one wall and call it a large efficiency apartment.
One had a porch with not only stone tile floors, columns, and ceiling fans, but also a built-in kitchen.
Only one (of five) had a laundry room big enough to keep an ironing board set up in.
One had a lady telling another lady, in a disgusted tone of voice, that "everything is standard." No! Not standard! The horror!
I did see one design element I thought I might be able to copy in my house, a corner pantry. But I see now that my kitchen, which I think of as a reasonably sized kitchen, much better than those galley kitchens in so many apartment complexes, really isn't quite big enough.