Our Hermann house is either 1200 or 1400 square-foot, I can’t remember which in the real estate listing. It’s a 1941 bungalow so it has Small bedrooms and smaller bathrooms. But I’m OK with that, I mean I’m thinking about it a lot and sometimes with my own bedroom I get claustrophobic when I think about it. This probably has more to do with ceiling height than with room size. My victorian house has 10’ 6” ceilings.
Anyway – our Hhermann living room is a nice size with a fireplace and BIG wide windows ( not skinny victorian windows) at either end and in the middle, so I have one spacious room. Then we’re going to add on a sunroom which will be spacious-ish and will seem that way because it will have lots of windows.
So I think of this space as cozy if I want that, but spacious if i want THAT.
Our basement runs the full length of the house and I have told DH that is his space, he gets the entire thing. But he may not bring furniture into the first floor. We haven’t really talked about the second floor where there are two bedrooms and will be a bathroom, all small 1940s- 50s size rooms.