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

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100. Yours was a pretty standard size for a middle class family home

back then and during the Victorian era, where lot sizes allowed. Not working class, those were smaller.

Sounds like a really nice home. As for old kitchens, I once posted a picture on a kitchen design forum of the wonderful old, I'm sure original, completely basic kitchen of a woman who'd just won a Nobel or Pulitzer, don't remember. She was being interviewed at the table with the work counter and sink beyond. Absolutely nothing like the expensive kitchens chock full of elaborate must-haves in the glossy brochures, but, again, wonderful in its very functional simplicity. I hoped it would cause some enthusiastic check writers to question, just a bit, their industry-driven assumptions about what they should want, what a good kitchen was, and when returns on lavish excess became no longer worth it.

I'm an old-kitchen lover and was only finally seduced to new cabinetry by full-extension drawers. Love them even more.