How big was the house you grew up in?

[Archae]

And did you have your own room?

My Dad was making buku bucks selling and delivering home heating oil, so we had a 4 bedroom, 1 full bathroom and 2 half-bathrooms.

Living room and dining room.

Since I was the only son, I had my own room, 8 x 10.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms

living, family, dining rooms,

Full basement

Yes, I had my own room.

[sasquatch]

30. Elitest.

:P
I kid, I kid, I didn't have my own room until I was 16 though.

[pokerfan]

50. Two story, four bedroom Victorian farmhouse

Remodeled a few years before I arrived. 2½ baths. Shared a bedroom for five of the eighteen years.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. pretty small

7 of us in a small house - one bathroom, one phone. I shared a 12x12 bedroom with two brothers.

[Blue Diadem]

11. Same here, 7 of us in a 700sf home. No telephone until I was 12 or so.

I was the youngest, so I eventually ended up with my own bedroom.

[TZ]

3. 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 baths

And yes, I had my own bedroom as did my two sisters (a godsend considering how much we fought)..In fact I'm here now, dogsitting/housesitting for my mom while she's on vacation...:)

[Tektonik]

4. I moved around a bit

But I primarily lived in either 3 bedroom houses or townhouses.

[XemaSab]

5. Sort of a one-and-a-half bedroom apartment

My room was 7x8, hence the "half."

I think it was originally a laundry porch. :D

[Kali]

6. apartment until age 4 or 5 - don't remember

k and 1st grade- house bedrooms? shared room w/sister
2nd - 4th- 3 bedroom smallish tract home had own room
4th through leaving- custom 5 bedroom house pretty large upper middle class on nice desert lot (not built by us) still belongs to my father - it was designed and built by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. It is pretty cool but like a lot of old cool houses there are plenty of "maintenence" issues.

House we are in now is a many-times-added-too old adobe ranch from the late 1880's it is technically a 3 bedroom but there is a tiny office and an enclosed porch that have been used as spare "rooms" on occasion plus an old "bunk room" off the "garage/shop" (man that sounds pretentious - it is a decrepit tin-covered shed) and there is an old small rock house that was originally a smoke house (about 8 x 8 - more of a cell) that has also been used as a room before.

My sons have always shared a room, my niece has her own.

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths

finished basement, dining room, big kitchen with breakfast nook, 2 sizable living rooms (one of which we only used on holidays because that's where the fireplace was)

and yes I did have my own room, I think it was bigger than my current room...something like 16 x 18.

It had this picture as wallpaper going across one of the walls too


My room was massively bad-ass

[intheflow]

34. I'm so jealous!

My whole life I've wanted a room with that mural on the wall! First in my room as a kid, but even now I think it's be a cool thing to have on the wall. The only kid I knew who had this on his wall was this mean, creepy kid who lived a few doors down. I know it's not you because I'm pretty sure this kid has grown up to be the type to to idolize Dick Cheney. x(

[Reverend_Smitty]

60. yes, it's safe to say I am no fan of Dick Cheney

I miss that mural, maybe one day when I have my own place and a big ass empty wall

[madrchsod]

8. huge! a "ballon construction" house built in the 1860`s

living,den,dining rooms and kitchen. 4 bedrooms and bath and an attic that could be converted into at least four more rooms. coal heat till the early 60`s. the property had a full sized carriage barn with a hay loft. my parents paid 5500 dollars in 1947.

[Adsos Letter]

9. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, attached garage, large backyard...

$17,000 in 1957...and in Napa.

[arcadian]

10. 3 bedroom, 3 full bathrooms, two car garage

living room, den, studio/sun room. 1 acre, lake front. Parents bought early in what would become the most prestigious neighborhood in a very large city.

[rug]

12. 4 room walkup apartment.

[Graybeard]

13. Railroad flat, 5rms +bath.

Yorkville section of Manhattan. The rooms ran straight front to back, hence "railroad". The Third Ave. el was outside the front room window. At age 12 or so I inherited a room from cousin who had gone off on his own.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I grew up in several houses...

But the one I see as the most important was the last one...

It had 4 bedrooms, and 1 and 3/4 baths...

Living room, family room, attached garage...California Ranch style...

One story...

I was very lucky in that house!

I started in one bedroom, and then decided that I preferred a different one...

So I switched bedrooms!

I had that room until I moved out to be married...

Good times, good times!

[mnhtnbb]

15. First house I remember was 3 BR 2 BA LR/DR Den and basement

that had a room could be used for bedroom and half bath, laundry room, shop; two car garage.
My parents paid $35,000 for it in 1954 in northern NJ. Huge lot.

Yes, I had my own room.

When my father retired in 1965 we moved to southern CA where my parents built a 4 BR 2 1/2 BA
LR/DR den house with a shop and 2 car garage on a slab with a pool. They paid $55,000. to build it
on property my father had owned since the 1930's (he was a CA native). It was surrounded by a working
orange/lemon grove.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. which house?

:shrug:

[Wcross]

17. 1100sqft (Five people)

Three br/one bath and it had a basement. I shared a room with my brother until my sister went to college. My parents still live in the house.

[Maddy McCall]

18. My parents remodeled a huge antebellum home....

my father bought it in "falling down" shape, and refurbished it himself. He and my mother did all the labor.

It was a huge house. I had my own bedroom....so did my brother.

It was three stories. With eight bedrooms. We lived in it for twelve years, and then my father sold it for a nice profit and built a new home, with not nearly as much space.

I miss the old home, and wish they would have held onto it.

[intheflow]

35. That sounds pretty cool, Maddie.

Eight bedrooms! Did it have a ballroom and all that Gone With The Wind architecture? What did your family do with all that extra space?

[Maddy McCall]

70. We shut off the upstairs and the unnecessary rooms during the winter...

and during the summer opened all the windows to let the breeze blow through the house.

It did have floor to ceiling windows on the front, but none of the fancy architecture. I'll see if I can dig up a photo of it...sadly, I don't think I have a photo. I think the only photos we have were made by my mom, and they are slides.

It had a huge grand room that you entered from the front door. When mom and dad were working in the upstairs, they found hidden rooms that had been sealed behind walls.

It was such a wonderful house...I wish they'd never sold it.

[NewEnglandGirl]

19. Until I was 5

we lived in a 4 room apartment. Then we moved (within the same town) and I grew up in a 6 room ranch house. I had my own bedroom in both. The house had 3 bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, family room and one full bath.

[Homer Wells]

20. I grew up in Tampa in the late '50's

and we had a 4 bedroom 1 1/2 bath house in the Gandy area. My Dad and Mom were both WW 2 veterans, so he got the house on the GI Bill. Total cost at that time for the home was $12,400 and the payments were around $78.00 a month.

I visited Tampa a few years ago, after a 30 year absence, and went back to the old place to see how much it had changed. The owner and I spoke for a while, and she told me she was planning on selling in a few years, and told me I could have first crack at it if I wanted, (asking price in the upper $50 K's).

For that part of Florida, that price is still a real steal, even given the age of the house now!

[TheCentepedeShoes]

21. Two bedroom/one bath places

But one year Mommie Dearest and I lived in a "huge" house (parents were splitsville at the time):
Two bedrooms, one bath, living room, dining room, kitchen and spare room downstairs, one large room and two smaller rooms upstairs, plus a creepy :scared: basement where the furnace lived.
Sealed off the upstairs during the winter so the heat wouldn't escape and make Mr Furnace mad.

[Tresalisa]

22. Six bedrooms, 3-1/2 bathrooms. I come from a large family. n/t

[femmocrat]

23. We had a tiny bungalow that my dad built.

It only had one bedroom! They converted a storage room to a small bedroom with bunkbeds for two children. When I was around 9 or 10, he built on a three-bedroom addition. We all had our own rooms after that. The rooms are really small by today's standards, though.

[yellowdogintexas]

24. a small 3 br 1 bath house that my parents built in 1954.

We stayed there until I was 17, when they bought a larger house in town. That house was old and had big rooms and a humongeous front porch.

But the house we lived in until I was 17 had 3 small BR, a living room and dining room and a kitchen and an enclosed back porch about 8 x 8 where the washing machine was. Later we upgraded from a wringer machine to automatic washer/dryer and mom had room for her sewing machine out there.

The house was small but we had a fireplace and hardwood floors through out and a acre of land. Driving by there now is kind of strange because all those itty bitty baby trees my parents planted are pretty large now and it looks like a woodland. It always seemed so naked to me when I was a kid.

[MrsMatt]

25. 1911 farmhouse (very rural)

4+ bedrooms, one bath. Had my own bedroom (14' x 12') with a closet that was 8' x 12'.

Grandparents were the 2nd owners, and we are now in the process of cleaning it out with the aim of tearing it down - sadly, it is in dire need of repair, and too far from the nearest town. We need to tear it down to keep someone from setting up a meth lab in it.

[SPKrazy]

26. Lets see...

first house I remember was about 1100 square feet with a partially finished basement that wasn't counted in the Sq feet

Then I remember living in married student housing

Then we moved to a 4 bedroom and much larger house, 3 bathrooms

then to a 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bathroom much larger house than the others

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. 3 good sized bedrooms, living room, kitchen, small dining room, and parlor. Was 1 bath but

my folks put another one in when I was a teen. It's your typical late 1800s farmhouse/ Maine fishing village home.

[rainbow4321]

28. Split level, 1100 sq ft

But it seemed a LOT bigger than that at the time. Built in 1960.

I guess because of all the different levels. Bottom floor: basement/workshop; 1st level: family rm/bar area and 1.5 bathrooms; 2nd level: kitchen, dining rm, living rm; 3rd level 3 bedrms and 1 bath..and then the next mini level the attic that was converted to another bedrm.
Sis and I looked at it's dimensions on the local tax records and were shocked to see 1100 sq ft. For having at one point 5 kids and 2 adults in it, we never felt crowded at all.

[Arugula Latte]

29. 4 br, 2 bath, 2000 sf ranch in the SF Bay Area suburbs

Bought in '71 for about $42,000

Today worth close to a million, no doubt. :eyes:

[kentauros]

31. 2-storey, 4-bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2200 sq.ft.

not including the never-truly-finished room over the 3-car garage. We did build a nice set of stairs up to it and I used it as my art studio in university. I'd stand on its upper deck sometimes, watching the bats and the stars :)

Oh, we also had a pool, with a roofed deck we built onto the back side of the house. Unfortunately, five of the six 80+ year-old post oaks we had on the property died of a wilt disease. The one we managed to save tilted over to the ground when Tropical Depression Claudette (1979) saturated the ground so much that the tree (which was already severly leaning from surviving Hurricane Carla, we think) finally couldn't hold itself up anymore and took out part of the fence at around 3 ayem :o

But it was great living in that area, right across the main road to NASA-JSC during the Apollo years :D

[Chan790]

32. 7BR, 5BA, 5325sq. ft.

It was a duplex converted to single-family dwelling so we had 2 kitchens, 2 dining rooms and about 10 den/living-room/study/playroom type rooms. I always had my own room.

[marigold20]

33. 2 BR, 1 bath, 6 kids

My parents slept in the enclosed back porch until Dad finished a room in the basement for my brothers. He also finished off the tiny attic. This room was highly prized - the boys got it first, then my parents moved up. All I remember is that it was HOT up there. We moved to a 3 br, 1 bath ranch when I was 13. It seemed like a palace.

[Gormy Cuss]

43. One bathroom? How did you survive?

That was a frequent question I heard when I went to college. I thought it was hilarious because no one in my neighborhood had a second bathroom and with 7-9 people in our house we weren't that unusual.

4 BR 1 BA with the den used as a 5th BR. The two large bedrooms were about 8' x10, the two smaller ones were about 8' x6,' and all had a knee wall on one 8'length (we called it "sleeping in the roof.") Finally had my own room when everyone older than me had moved out.

Our house was massive by area standards because it was a duplex that had been converted to a single family house.

[Skittles]

45. we kept our bathroom visits quick and clean

that's how :D

[Gormy Cuss]

47. That's why I found it so funny.

Other than bath night, it wasn't that challenging.

[Skittles]

53. LOL

second and third-hand bath water was the order of the day when I was a child :7

[applegrove]

36. 5 Bedroom 3 1/2 baths. Livingroom, dinningroom, den & kitchen.

[intheflow]

37. I grew up in two significant houses.

We lived in a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ranch-style house. I shared a room with one of my sisters (there were three of us) until I was about 5 or 6, then then finished the attic off and my eldest sister moved up there and my other sister got her own room. After that, I never had to share a room again. The second house was also a 3 bedroom, but since my sisters were 7 and 10 years older than me, most of my life there was spent as an only child and I switched rooms a couple times.

[SoxFan]

38. Looked a lot like this

This isn't it, but it's almost a dead ringer. Only real differences are the location of the chimney, the lack of a covered porch, and the color.

I had my own room.

[intheflow]

73. Whoa!

From your description and your photo, it seems like you grew up in my house. :) Our driveway was on the other side and ended with a screened porch. But the shape, the color, and even moving the chimney all fit my childhood home.

[IronLionZion]

39. 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bath, 2 basements

We remodeled a fairly small house while I was still very young. We lived in it while it was being remodeled. It is a fairly large house with lots of skylights and big windows. There are 5 of us but we often have LOTS of guests and it gets very crowded. My room is always the first to be given to guests.

[ileus]

40. 3b rm 1 bath, own room 12x8 1300sq/ft

on 70 acres.

[harmonicon]

41. 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms

I shared a room with my brother, but our sister had her own room.

When I was about 12 we moved to the house where my parents live now, where I had my own room. 5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms.... a big step up. Now it's just my parents there and it's way too big for them. The neat thing about that house is that my brother designed it when he was 17 years old - he was a sort of architectural and drafting prodigy at the time.

[johnnie]

42. Here's the first one

Funny, I had just recently found this on Google Maps.

There were four of us children in the front left bedroom ,behind that was my parent's room and behind that was the bathroom that you would be sitting in when someone needed to go upstairs..lol. The upstairs was just a half ass loft. The basement was just a dug out dirt room with a furnace. The register came up in the middle of the floor between the front room and living room (which were each about 12 by 12 at the most). Hell, the house was 100 years old when I lived there and that was from 1964 to 1972.

We moved into a 3 bedroom in 1973 and then a four bedroom in 1975 which felt like a friggin' mansion.

[Skittles]

44. 5 kids, usually two bedrooms except the last few years

when we had three......all in all I lived in maybe 14 different abodes growing up

[hellbound-liberal]

46. 1485 sq. ft. I just looked it up on Zillow.com It was really cool to actually see it online

since I haven't lived in it in over 40 years. I saw it in person a few years ago. It's amazing how small everything looks compared to the way you remember it!

[mnhtnbb]

52. OMG. I'd never been on Zillow. Just used it to look up my childhood

home and it's been mansionized to the point I'd never recognize it.

[moriah]

48. Until age 3, trailer, after that, 3 bedroom 1 bath house

The trailer was a 2 bedroom, one bath, singlewide. I shared a bedroom with my sister.

When we moved in with my grandparents when I was 3, my mother had a bedroom, my sister had a bedroom, and my grandparents had a bedroom. They bought a daybed and set it up in the living room for me.

That house is now a four-bedroom house, they converted the garage to a bedroom when my sister moved back in after she was divorced and I didn't want to give up the room that was now mine.

[crimsonblue]

49. 20,000 sq feet

a dinky little cottage.....

[mopinko]

51. brick 4 square, 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths. but there were 7 kids.

i had a room for a while because i was number 6, and the rest had moved out. but mostly 2 or 3 of us were together. had 1 brother, so he had his own.
nice old house.

[wickerwoman]

54. 4 bedroom, 1.5 baths ranch-style house

I had my own room 9x10.

I remember really really wanting stairs when I was a kid and thinking my grandmother (who raised 6 kids in a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house) was really, really rich. She had stairs and an attic even though the total square footage was probably less than our house.

[Whoa_Nelly]

55. ZIllow link to house I grew up in

Great place to play hide 'n' seek ;)

House center/right
http://www.zillow.com/aerial/DualMapPage.htm?zpid=22010889

We bought it in 1954 when I was 4 months old.
Lived there until summer of 1968

* Single family
* 4 beds
* 3.5 bath
* 4,173 sqft
* Lot 15,960 sqft
* Built in 1947
http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=22010889

[RushIsRot]

56. Two bedrooms, one bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen

plus a screened front porch and an enclosed back porch. I had my own room once my grandfather moved out. It had cowboys and Indians wallpaper. But my favorite place was the tree house in the big oak across the street. My dad built it and it had a floor, sides and a roof. I wish I had taken photos of it. The last time I was in that neighborhood the whole tree had been cut down.

[galledgoblin]

57. 3 bedrooms, one for 2 boys, another for 4 girls

I'm trying to remember the way it was when I was a kid (born 1985), the building was split up for two families when my parents first bought it, and they've done a good deal of work on the building since:

full basement, one big room.
first floor had a dining room, a kitchen/entrance room, full bathroom, living room, library, and front room which was used as spillover from the living room and where we would put the Christmas tree.
then there was a big hallway which a previous owner had put a good deal of work into; it's still gorgeous today, although it does need work.
the second floor had the three bedrooms. the girl's room was also the passageway into the sewing room and from there to the second floor full bathroom.

today it gets crowded at the holidays when everyone is home, and my parents are within a couple years of the great big renovation they've planned for 20 years, but the building will still be modest compared to some of these ridiculous new constructions in suburban developments, and we'll actually use all the rooms!

[Arugula Latte]

66. Using all the rooms is big with me.

I hate wasted space.

I currently live in a fairly large house, by my standards. It's 2600 sf, three baths, four bedrooms (one bedroom is used as a guestroom/home office) plus additional home office (converted from part of the garage) --> for four people, three cats, and a bunny. But, every day we use every room -- from the living room to the family room to the offices, to all the bathrooms. It could use some more work to really update it, but I feel lucky to live here. Nice quiet, leafy street as well. :)

[trackfan]

58. 3 bed, 1 bath

I think about 1400 sq. feet.

[jobycom]

59. Well, it kept growing. Started out with me and two brothers in the living room

my sister in a bedroom, and my parents in the second bed. One bath, no living room, and a combined kitchen and dining room. Then they added a living room and moved the kitched, expanding the dining room. There were gaps in the floor to let the roaches come in.

Eventually my dad found an abandoned house and had it moved to the back of ours, and he built a room connecting them. So then we had two bathrooms, five bedrooms (one for each of us), three or four living rooms, two dining rooms, a kitchen, and a spare kitchen that got turned into a junk room. More gaps were created to allow more roaches into the house.

Ah, Mississippi.

[BarenakedLady]

61. Ranch - 3 bedrooms, 1 bath

1/2 finished basement. That's about it.

[u4ic]

62. A small bungalow - 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 5 kids

The basement wasn't exactly unfinished, but it wasn't finished, either. Cement floors and walls, it was basically a storage area with a washer and dryer.

I didn't have my own room until I was 12.

[MrCoffee]

63. It was pretty big: 4 bedrooms 2 1/2 bath, my folks still live there.

I had my own room.

[leftyclimber]

64. 900 SF

Two parents, two kids, two cats. Other than trying to get four people through the bathroom in the morning, it wasn't a bad house at all.

[azmouse]

65. It was a 12' X 60' mobile home.

Only one bathroom for 5 of us.
I had my own bedroom but it was very, very small. I have closets in the house I live in now that are bigger than that room was.

[NNadir]

67. My family inherited most of Venezuela and huge stretches of New York.

We had so many estates - and I and the family tutors moved so rapidly among them - that I kind of forgot which house I grew up in.

My family was very generous though. My grandfather loved to give away nickels to poor children.

If you don't believe me, here's a picture of him doing it at this link.

?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=11B127B063386F61C7D0FB368E6FF148A55A1E4F32AD3138

I'm going to find out if the guy who put this picture up is paying my family royalties.

I'm not sure that my lifestyle was ideal when I was a kid. I grew up, became Governor of New York, divorced my wife because I found somebody to marry me whose name was "Happy."

I tried to get peace the old fashioned way, I tried to "marry it." Happy, in the meantime, tried to get money the old fashioned way: By marrying it.

I guess whatever I had with happy didn't make me happy, since, after a life time of never making it to the Presidency, I was the first "appointed" Vice President in history, whereupon I distinguished myself by giving the entire planet the finger because Gerald Ford won't do the right thing and die in office making me quite surly:



I reportedly died while having kinky sex with someone who wasn't "Happy," but that was just a cover up for the fact that I hate you all and don't want to bother with you in any fucking way.

[Roon]

68. Five bedroom house

Three bathrooms. I loved that place and hope to live there again one day. My Mother still has it and she is renting it out.

[Symarip]

69. HAHAHA

A house. Good one.

In the 15 some ought places I lived in growing up, most were 2 bedroom apartments: one room for my mom and one for me.

[trof]

71. We had a billiard room. What does THAT tell ya?

;-)

[tigereye]

72. Prairie 4 square - 4 bedrooms - our friends who lived on the other side of

town used to refer to it as the "mansion" - which was funny, since it was just a typically sized house for our street.



We were lucky to grow up with a nice yard in a kid-friendly small town.


on edit, it's amazing to think how little houses cost even 20 plus years ago, compared to now!