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Isn’t it generally true that bedrooms in more recently built houses are larger?
I can’t call myself a fan of much of the newer single-family housing I see around here. Families are on average smaller than they used to be, but you wouldn’t know that by seeing these new “communities.” Lotsa large — like 3,000-square-feet — houses with postage stamp yards.
It’s not that I wouldn’t have wanted a bedroom and bathroom all to myself when I was a kid, but that’s not how it was back then. In my parents’ and grandparents’ early lives it wasn’t uncommon for yiungsters to share not just the room but the bed itself. And bathrooms? Ha! They were lucky to have indoor plumbing.
Isn’t it generally true that bedrooms in more recently built houses are larger?
I can’t call myself a fan of much of the newer single-family housing I see around here. Families are on average smaller than they used to be, but you wouldn’t know that by seeing these new “communities.” Lotsa large — like 3,000-square-feet — houses with postage stamp yards.
It’s not that I wouldn’t have wanted a bedroom and bathroom all to myself when I was a kid, but that’s not how it was back then. In my parents’ and grandparents’ early lives it wasn’t uncommon for yiungsters to share not just the room but the bed itself. And bathrooms? Ha! They were lucky to have indoor plumbing.