Originally Posted by
catherine
Thank you, Tybee--but I truly am hoping that this house is THE house for us. I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a big house, nor do I think I want one. I read books like Walden and 12 x 12 (about a woman who lived in a 12 x 12 cabin) with pure envy. And the times I've lived in small spaces confirms to me my dreams are not unrealistic: I've lived for months in a hotel room with 2 small children without feeling cabin fever, and I lived in a very small 1 bedroom cottage by myself without feeling the slightest bit cramped--in fact, it was freeing.
Not to say I'm not nervous about living with DH in a small house--he has such a big personality I usually need some spatial buffer, but we'll see. The way I see it there are scads of couples who live in apartments no bigger than my VT house, and they get along. I did some patient ethnographries with a videographer who lives in a 500 sq.ft. apartment with his fiancee, and he says it's fine. But he's super organized--he says that if he doesn't use something in 6 months, it's outta there. Now, I have something that those apartment-dwellers don't--3 outbuildings! My desire is to minimize and to reduce the burden on my kids when they have to sort through my crap, but I realize it will be a process.
Anyway, sorry for the hijack.