New home square footage and state?
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Calculating Square Footage of your new home
Comments (5)"The floor areas of houses are usually taken to the exterior of the framing/foundation and include everything except the garage." That's the way it's done here. Basements, unfinished attics (a finished attic with window counts are square footage since it is above grade), porches, unheated spaces and cathedral space don't count. For tax purposes covered porches, etc., are added in under a separate formula, but it doesn't count in square footage for tax or marketing purposes....See MoreCountertop square footage?
Comments (3)Round up all numbers to whole numbers and use inches. Length times width (use 26", not 24", you have to account for overhang) and don't forget the overhang on the sides. Don't forget that backsplash is also square footage and needs to be figured in as well. So, for a 10' section of cabinets that has the left side against a wall and the right side open to the room with a sink in the middle, you'd calculate: (length of counter run plus overhang) 122 x 26=3172 (length of left side splash) 26 x 4=104 (length of backsplash behind counter) 122 x 4=488 Add up the square inches=3764. Divide by 144=26.14 and round up=27 square feet. So, for a countertop that you figured 20 square feet, you'd actually have 7 more square feet. Then there is the edging charge, which is figured on the linear feet that need to be machined. 122 (countertop length) +26(right side open to room)=148. Divide by 12=12.33, and round up to 13 linear feet of edging. Then there is the charge to mount the undermount sink and polish the edge of the cutout. That charge varies with each fabricator and usually depends on the type of sink and maybe what reveal you want to have. Average is probably $250-$300. So, if soapstone is $90 a square foot (about starting price in my area), and you want a bullnose edge that costs $10 a foot, and an standard 33" undermount sink, your 10" example countertop would be (27 x $90)+(13 x $10) + $250 = $2810. If you used your original figure of 20 square feet, and didn't figure in the extras, then it would appear that the stone cost around $140 a square foot. Hope this helps. :~)...See MoreSquare Footage of new house
Comments (8)Often a new home will not measure up to the square footage indicated on the floor plan. Six homes in our development are the exact same plan. All but two are the exact same size. One is smaller...the other is smaller yet...however, they were all sold as having the same SF. The two that are smaller were built as "spec" homes. In addition, a small development is being built nearby. The listing states that it has a 3 car garage...and 2500 SF. It has a two car garage, and there is no way this home is 2500 SF...as is ours...I would say 2000 is more accurateÂ..as the layout is virtually the same it is very easy to judge that the rooms are ALL smaller. However, they are building another one of the homes...and that home does indeed have a 3 car garage...and looks as if it is indeed 2500 SF This is apparently fairly common; sometimes it is due to setback or geographical constraints of a particular lotÂsometimes they just screw up when they build the foundation. Developers hope the buyer won't noticeÂ.especially since there are so many formulas used to calc SF. FWIW, I believe that the only valid one is the ANSI standard, which I believe is the one that all appraisers must utilize in accordance with USPAP. However, both above mentioned homes did not raise any appraisal flagsÂgo figure. ;-) Ask for the room measurements...then check them against your house. Also measure like models. Hope this helps....See MoreDoes a small home mean square footage?
Comments (8)Growing up in a family with seven kids, we lived in a variety of houses, thanks to Dad's military career. You'd think with nine people in the family, a small house would be out of the question, but we lived in some undoubtedly small houses. At one point, the military housing we were given was a small ranch house--three bedrooms, a galley kitchen, and a rectangular living/dining room space, one bathroom. Plus a small laundry/storage room off the kitchen. No attic or basement. Probably around 1300 square feet. We survived. The master bedroom was the boys' room, with two sets of bunk beds. My parents and the current baby had the next smaller room, and my sister and I had the smallest room. The large walk-in closet off the front entry was turned into a tiny office for my father. For one thing, we didn't have a lot of stuff. And we were sent to Catholic school, so we had our school uniforms, a dressy outfit or two and a few things to wear for playing around the house. So everything fit. And we had a large backyard to play in, and a playground within easy walking distance and a very safe neighborhood on the base. We lived in 3 or 4 variations of that house, although all the rest had 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. We never seemed crowded, although a lot of that is most likely due to the fact that we never accumulated a ton of stuff--with every move, we weeded and discarded things. We also lived in what I still call a "mansion." Formal living room, formal dining room, 20' x 20' kitchen, two pantries, a servant's room, five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a music room and a sunporch. Plus the huge front porch and a small back porch. And a full basement plus attic. Lots of built-in cupboards and closets in the upstairs hallways. Funny how everything expanded to fit that space. More of us had rooms to ourselves. We had a separate TV/family room, instead of having the TV in the living room (my parents disliked the TV in the living room, but had no choice in most of the places we lived). We accumulated more stuff, but it never seemed like it, because there was so much more space. While my mother really liked that house (and it was a lovely older house), it had problems. It was so big that calling everyone to dinner was a problem. Stuff got scattered around the house and no one picked it up, whereas in the smaller houses, it was easier to see when something was out of place. And easier to put it back, because you didn't have to walk so far. I'm convinced that smaller houses work better than larger houses--easier to clean, easier to tidy up. But the house has to be carefully planned. Adequate storage has to be built-in. The use of the rooms has to be thought out. I don't think it matters if you have one open living space or separate living/dining rooms and a separate kitchen, so long as the space works for the way you live....See Moreajpl
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