# So I'm Getting 1600 Square Feet... Way too long **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-getting-1600-square-feet-way-too-long/1012660 "2025-01-06T21:49:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-getting-1600-square-feet-way-too-long/1012660/9 "2025-01-07T00:06:48Z")
I’m loving the conversation. > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I don’t know what your interests are, but everybody could [use a bowling alley, right](https://youtu.be/YPfdSu6wO08?si=iTK56Qif5upk5ydf)? If you can get a bowling alley (2 lanes?) into a 40x50 footprint, you’re hired. > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > The likelihood that the two of you can be ‘neighbors’ down there with disparate uses diminishes based on the number of power tools you use and the frequency with which you use them. Could you be(come) a hand-tool only guy? We can compromise, and we can be neighbors. I could make the kitchen the exercise room, and the bedroom the workshop. That would preserve the investment I’ve made in the kitchen. > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Oh, and one cabinet can always be the de facto bar. Fancy liquor beats fancy ambience for me … every time 😉 In case I wasn’t clear, there are 4 main and separate places down there: Kitchen, Bedroom, Bar (which is 15x25 and serves as the living room for the apt), and bathroom. The rest of the space is taken up by things like the boiler room, landing at the bottom of the stairs, back hall to the exterior door, etc > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Anyway, it sounds like a fun problem to have, if you like working with your hands. It is. And the open floor space in the kitchen is about 15x20; the bedroom is a bit of an odd shape, but probably “averages” 15x15 > [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Rent it out. It’s not legal, and as it is there’s no safe way to separate this space from my space. So it’s family only. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > If you don’t know what to do w the space (and I sure wouldn’t) that suggests to me that you really don’t want what that house has to offer. You are correct. There is a long story behind us buying this house. It’s massive, and it’s in a very working-class area. We bought it for a variety of reasons including location and its ability to accommodate the entertaining we do. We had to buy what was available, and will downsize for retirement. But I’m not dealing with moving more than one more time. Next one is last one. It’s 5000 sq ft (incl the illegal apt) and when the time comes we’ll go back to about 1500. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-getting-1600-square-feet-way-too-long/1012660)._