But could he maneuver on the often-narrow floors in these places? If he has to be with you, can he climb the ladders to the beds?

You’re misunderstanding me. Kids sharing rooms with each other is fine. Kids not having their own room away from the adults sucks, especially with how hovering and clingy American parenting is.

With other kids, sure, I’m talking the kids, in general, deserve a room apart from the parents. Because of how American parenting generally is—especially among upper middle class people which a lot of these couples are—kids need some way to shut a door between them and their folks sometimes.

Then they can go on Treehouse Masters and live in a fancy treehouse.

They did once—because the wife knew that and hated it about the toilet type and kept insisting not to get one with that kind of toilet. It was hilarious.

One of my fave reiterations from a house hunters mocking thread on tumblr: for crying out loud if you want a tract house, get one! Stop pretending you want something old and “with character” when you want a modern tract house!

I still remember when I was moving back to my folks and brought up what of my kitchen stuff to keep. Dad was like “why keep any of it?” and I asked him if he’d be the one replacing all the good-quality pots then. They all fit nicely in a pretty small box since I only had two pots and two pans (all but one a hand me…

I grew up in a house that had good open concept but honestly, it only works well if it’s pretty big, and the kitchen was still semi-walled off (by the counter on one side (from the living room) and a closet-wall on the other (from the fancy dining room). The living room, foyer, fancy dining room and “den” (aka patch…

I actually grew up in an open concept home. A good one that was made for it, not walls bashed out to force it. Really great for entertaining and the open area left me a huge area to run around in when I was younger. But thankfully there was a hallway off to the side for my room and the guest room and the bathroom and…

My folks hated cleaning their first house in FL. Moved to one half the side (like, 1650 sq ft) and were much, much happier. I was a little bummed since I lost dancing space but, whatevs.

Yep. I’m lucky since I can stay with my parents thru next summer at the very least and stay in the area where I’m most likely to get work, and by then hopefully I’ll have a job (entry level with my degree should be about 45-50k a year in this area, at the bare minimum, so I should be able to get a decent one bedroom…

Yep. When we first moved, family home size was cut in half from about 3400 to 1650 sq ft. But weirdly the layout was still the same, despite going to a two story house: my room, bathroom and the guest room were segregated off from the rest (separate hall in old house, on the bottom floor with the garage in the new),…

And what’s worse, people will still buy them.

Hell my mom’s mom’s house was a trailer-type house with an addition (aka converted garage area, they fit a bedroom, a huge closet, and a bathroom in there somehow...) and it felt giant inside. And WAS giant compared to these places. My childhood bedroom was bigger than some of them! I mean it was a moderately big…

I’ll admit: nope, never. It startled me when dad once mentioned both dogs had seen them have sex, as my brain could not comprehend that they still had been at it when i was 10 (when we got the second dog). Of course, the houses I grew up in either had my bedroom on the opposite end of the house or on the other floor…

OMG this. I actually loved a firend’s family’s RV when I was younger, all the neat little ways of getting stuff in small spaces was amazing. I’d never get one but it was so nice.

A lot of the episodes felt very midlife-crisis-y to me.

No but kids at least deserve their own freaking room, not a loft with a tiny curtain they they can only move around in by crawling. And it’s not even that these are cheap homes for poorer families, these are solidly middle class families looking to downsize and often paying premium for those tiny places.

Except these tiny houses are typically small to be trendy, not by necessity and aren’t exactly some super cheap solution as many are pretty pricey for their square footage. Small by necessity here in the USA isn’t a tiny freestanding house, it’s a tiny apartment surrounded by other tiny apartments or a trailer. None…

Mine’s a 40 lb labradoodle and I think of him whenever these idiots have dogs. My boy’d go mad in there.