Hello ansell,
My apartment is a semi-efficiency. Two small rooms and a bath...walk in closet off the bedroom too and outside open deck.. I took this when I first moved to the area because I needed a place fast and it would work temporarily. That was five years ago and I’m still here and loving it!
I learned through this time a bigger place simply meant filling it. I have all I need....and can have my family here when I use an extra table I have under my bed.
It helped that the landlord designed this remarkably well. I even have a love seat beneath the storage cupboard.
There’s a two seater snackbar seperating the kitchen from the living room....but it’s all one room.
I truly enjoy it here...though I had for a time considered taking a larger place.
Small living, for one, has many advantages I have found.
I had been saving up for a nice spot of land, but decided to cut my expenses in half. The wife and I just went from a 1600 sqft house to an 800 sqft apartment. Many things are going in storage. But the cost is less than half, so we’ll be able to put in a lot more to the dream of a paid off piece of land with whatever cabin we want on it.
If smaller living is in the plan, let the plan move forward.
Back in the (1990s?) when the giant house thing was going on I sometimes suggested to my rich, elderly customers that rather than moving to another giant mansion when they were selling and retiring, that they think about a smaller place, (appropriate to their wealth, 2,000 feet?, 3,000?) and spend their money on quality workmanship and materials instead.
That instead of going for 6 car garages and mansions, that they think of building a smaller home purely for themselves and creating an environment of rare quality and expense purely based on their own internal selves.