America’s Homes Are Shrinking

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Property developers need not downgrade the number of bedrooms because they decrease size. It's a cynical ploy to segregate the market.

Unless including a garage, there's no reason why a 2400sqm, which is 220m2 in the rest of the world, should not be 4-5 bedrooms.

My wife and I work from home, and so both occupy a "bedroom" for our offices, plus our bedroom plus our son's.

We have two big bedrooms that we sleep in and two smaller ones that would be crappy adult bedrooms but are good offices.

I say all this because I agree, I think modern houses where people have fewer kinds and two adults work from home can have different and smaller "bedroom" layouts than traditional homes.

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