In another we absorbed the laundry room into the kitchen, making laundry part of the kitchen space and gaining a more open plan. In one house, a tiny garage became an office, maker space, and laundry room. We have reorganized the space in each one, knocking down walls, reassigning space, and reworking floor plans to maximize their potential. We chose each of the three homes we have purchased with an eye to one thing: potential. In fact, our Atomic Ranch ranks as the biggest we have ever lived in at 2000 sq. Our homes have all been small - much smaller than those of our friends and many of our neighbors. And we have applied her ideas about space and organization and use to each of the three homes we have owned and renovated - as well as the others we have rented. But a house is so much more than its size and volume, neither of which has anything to do with comfort." Instead of thinking about the quality of the spaces we live in, we tend to focus on quantity.
"We are all searching for home, but we are trying to find it by building more rooms and more space. Her contention is that American homes are often built to be bigger, but they are soulless, wasteful, and too big. Susanka, now the author of many books, started a small revolution - the backlash to the McMansion phenomenon. And her approach to houses has been one of our guiding principles ever since. It was a Not So Big House designed by architect Sarah Susanka. I still remember the study nooks at the top of the stairs where children could do their homework and the warm wood of the kitchen that just seemed - perfect. These were houses we could only fantasize about - a sprawling mansion on Lake Minnetonka with a garage just for the riding lawnmower, a three-story McMansion with soaring ceilings.
One day my husband suggested that we go visit a few homes on a Twin Cities home tour - possibly a class assignment. My husband was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota's School of Architecture. The Not So Big House One of Our Guiding Principles
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