according to the national association of home builders, the average american home has more than doubled since 1950. and once we’ve got that extra space, we need to buy things to put in it, right?
no wonder minimalism is such a foreign concept to us americans.
My house is old and was built in 1911. It is 1300 square feet. My husband and I are raising two kids in our house and we have two big Labrador retrievers. After the kids are grown and move out, we plan to build a smaller house. We have decided on 600 square feet for the size of the cabin that we build. We don’t need a lot of space. We don’t own a lot of stuff.
We’re a family of 5 in a 1000 sqft apartment built in 1906. Probably on the big side in those days !