Living room
Everybody has his own idea about how much space it takes to be happy. I live alone in 100 SM or 1000 SF and I need another room for all the messy things I like to do but whose messes I can’t live with. My daughter is used to living in an apartment much bigger than my house with two balconies and is looking for an affordable real house that doesn’t feel squished. Another friend here recently moved into a two story apartment so much smaller than her old one that she had to buy a flat TV. We’ve all heard about the 10,000 SF houses the young and successful require in the big city suburbs.
But what if you want to live in the heart of a city where real estate costs as much as white truffles? What if you want to rear several children in the middle of London or New York and you don’t have and can’t get you hands on four million bucks? I find these stories inestimably more interesting than all those beige marble quasi-palaces in Architectural Digest.
And here they are. Three biggish families in three expensive cities, with three different ideas about how to get living room. They are really different from each other, too. The only things they have in common are kids and urban souls.
My only complaint is that they didn’t say enough about the kitchens.
6 comments November 10th, 2007
