How big is your house

[Brett Luna]

It's just The Wife® and I (plus a dog and two cats) in our place: Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, 1957 ft², with an attached 576 ft² heated garage and a 320 ft² deck. Parts of the house feel a bit on the small side because the master suite comprises the entire 660 ft² upper level...and I carried tile, mud, and grout up there for damn-near every inch of it along with some of the walls, too.

[Brian Elfert]

4600sf. I grew up in about 650 so I guess I over compensated! Selling it now however. I really did not anticipate not wanted to climb stairs to a 2nd floor! Going to try and get all first floor next time. Don't need so much to clean either!

I'm a bit concerned that the ranch style house I am buying has a walkout basement on the driveway side so one needs to climb stairs to get to the main floor. I don't want to end up in a situation where I couldn't get up and down the stairs due to knee pain or whatever. My parents are in their late 60s and still climb stairs all the time at home with no issues so I'll probably want to move on before it becomes an issue.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Our home is about 2,000 square feet including the finished basement. With knee issues, I wish I could have successfully convinced the wife over a decade ago to move and build a home with an unfinished basement and all the utilities on the ground floor. She didn't want to leave the neighborhood. Now all the neighbors are retiring and moving.

[Matt Marsh]

Mine has around 830 sq, ft. of living space upstairs, and another finished 200 sq. ft. in the walkout basement. The house also has an attached 24 X 36 garage. My wife and I bought this place because we fell in love with the 40 acre property more than we did the house. We always wanted to add on, but now since my wife is gone and I'm taking care of all of it alone, I'm glad we didn't.

[Jay Jolliffe]

A little over 2,000sq'...Two bedrooms & two full baths. It's only the two of us. Top floor is my wife's art studio. When we built it we made it so the bottom floor has 3' doors just in case there is a wheel chair in our future..Can't see that we'd move so this will by our last stop alive...After that we'll be blowing in the wind....

[Raymond Fries]

We live in a 1600 sq ft home. Just the two of us with two cats and a parrrot. We each have one of the smaller bedrooms converted into an office/craft/personal space. She has an indoor greenhouse that was built on two years ago. I have half of the attached two car garage full of my woodworking tools & machines. Pretty easy to leave the car out on the driveway if I need to spreadout for projects as all of my machines are on mobile bases. Sometimes I wish we had more space (especially more shop space) but it works it is all paid for.

[Al Launier]

4500 sq. ft. for my wife (retiring at EOY) & myself (retired at 55). Thinking (?) of downsizing & moving south.

[Myk Rian]

1,500 sf tri-level, so it works out to 2,250 approx. We raised 4 kids here, and have no plans on moving.
A friend of ours has a 6,750 sf manse. Gorgeous place on 140 acres with a lake, but she doesn't like to be alone in it. When her hubby goes golfing, she gets out of there. Her hubby was the one wanting that size home. She would have been happy with 2,500 sf.

[Shawn Pixley]

My grandparents (all four of them) climbed the stairs in their houses into and through their eighties. My parents climb the stairs in their mid seventies. Not trying to demean anyone who doesn't want to or can't climb stairs, but sometimes I think that we make to much of stair climbing as we age.

[Howard Garner]

1500 sq ft upstairs on the main level. 1400 in the basement. The basement is all mine. Large model railroad, library room and computer workstation.
detached two car garage. Lots of room for just us two retired folks.
Move here 23 years ago when the kids graduated high school and the job offered a chance to move from the Charleston SC area.
Love being this close to the mountains and haveing my lifetime model railroad.

[Dennis McDonaugh]

We have a 2000 SF, single story house. It's a split design with two very small bedrooms separated from the rest of the house. We moved from a two story so we wouldn't have to worry about health issues affecting our access.

[Brian Elfert]

My grandparents (all four of them) climbed the stairs in their houses into and through their eighties. My parents climb the stairs in their mid seventies. Not trying to demean anyone who doesn't want to or can't climb stairs, but sometimes I think that we make to much of stair climbing as we age.

I have a co-worker and his wife who are already complaining about the stairs in their house and they are in their 50s in very good health. His mother-in-law in her 80s won't visit the sister-in-law's house because there are three steps to the front door. I think issues with stairs are very real for a lot of people. I've seen seniors who it would take them half an hour to climb a set of stairs.

It seems like plenty of seniors stay in houses with stairs they can barely climb for various reasons. It may be the only house they ever owned and they don't want to leave, or they feel they can't afford to move. Some will only climb the stairs twice a day to get up and go to bed. Others will move the bed to a 1st floor room. My friend's dad uses the front porch as a bedroom to avoid the stairs.

[Mike Cutler]

My grandparents (all four of them) climbed the stairs in their houses into and through their eighties. My parents climb the stairs in their mid seventies. Not trying to demean anyone who doesn't want to or can't climb stairs, but sometimes I think that we make to much of stair climbing as we age.

Actually, it's gotten easier for me to do the stairs. I used to race bicycles and there were times I could barely walk, yet alone go up and down the stairs. Used to go down them on my rear end, and I was only 30 at the time.
However, in fairness, arthritis can set in very quickly as a person gets older, which makes stairs a huge obstacle for them, regardless of how fit they may be. Thankfully, it doesn't run in my family.

For the OP
Our house is 1900 sq/ft split between 4 levels and the basement.

[Jim Becker]

This house was originally about 1900 sq feet when we bought it. The addition we put on in 2008 to accommodate our family needs brought it to about 4250 sq ft. It also gave us a real front door, along with a master suite, 1st floor guest suite, media room, 2nd floor laundry and my office. Most importantly, it added two full bathrooms to bring us to 3.5 baths; necessary with two teen daughters, etc.

[Dave Sheldrake]

Including the extended buildings that aren't really used much 6,200 SqFt over 3 levels with a fourth level that's not used at all of another 1,500 or so. Nice place but a pain in the neck when somebody rings the doorbell and I'm the other end of the place....

It's old though and has lots of character so will outlast me by a long way I would think

cheers

Dave