When A House is defined as a series of places for various activities rather than as a string of separate rooms, it's easy to see how often functions are duplicated in a typical floor plan. The Not So Big House . Ms. Susanka asks you to consider why houses have a formal dining room, an informal eating area often adjacent to the kitchen and sometimes even an informal area at the kitchen counter. Not So Big House should have a big heart. Square footage can be deceiving.
Some big houses feel small, and some small houses feel big.
A mistake often made in houses today is that every ceiling is the same height, leaving no way to differentiate between spaces. It's a rare space that's too small for comfort, but it's not at all uncommon for one to be uncomfortably big.