It's time to rethink the single-family home as the American dream, author says

[MissB]

25. I love my single family home

It isn’t perfect but having looked around, I think we will stay here for the remainder of our days.

The house is nearly 100 years old. We’ve put in new custom windows (fir inside and out, double hung, true divided light) and there is fir trim everywhere. When we moved in, the woodwork was painted. We prefer lightly stained fir. Pretty easy to deal with to strip the paint or replace. The 12” base moulding in the living room is impressively tall, and that’s before the top cap piece.

It’s also 2300 sq feet, and has always been. We’ve added on all of 36 square feet by putting in a proper entryway. The kitchen isn’t grand- it truly needs to be torn out but it’ll be serviceable until we feel like dealing with it.

Only one car garage, which suits us just fine. 1/2 acre which cushions us from noise. Our last house was on a 50x100’ lot and we heard allll the neighbors. I really appreciate the space we have.