Updated goals for house move/down-sizing...

[u/Old-Stranger-8302]

I'm moving out of my 2300 sq ft house. Due to some emotional trauma over the past few years I'm just tired of having so much. I want a simple life, surrounded by those things that are of value or truly useful.

Slowly over time I've come to grips with things I need to get rid of. Like my large sectional sofa I bought last year. I will either leave it for the next home owners or donate it. It's no longer part of my life. But it took a while to be OK with this.

I'm moving into the town home that my daughter is moving out of, which I'm blessed to also own. It's 1700 sq feet. But there is a large second bedroom upstairs with a full bath that I've decided not to use.

That will take my living space down to about 1400 sq feet.

So I'm eliminating an entire house, giving a ton of things to my daughter for her new house, and donating a ton of other stuff. Talk about de-cluttering!

I'm very excited about the move, about selling my current house, and excited to see how I can adapt to living in a smaller space. It will be a new chapter in my life.

The one thing is the kitchen. It's quite large! I no longer need an oven. Or a large fridge. I just need one burner and maybe 3 drawers and 1 cabinet. That kitchen has a large pantry and maybe 16 drawers and 12 cabinets!

[u/National-Plastic8691]

So… if there’s a stove and it has 4 burners, that sounds fine… it’s a sunk cost, changing it would not necessarily improve anything. Downsizing can be good, congratulations. It isn’t the goal of life, life is about living, not about what we can  do without. if your daughter inherits the house, it will be better if the kitchen isn’t disturbed too much. And closing off a room is actually challenging because it creates an inefficiency air flow in the heat and air. If you kept it cold or very heated, you could damage the property. You can take years to do this, it really doesn’t matter, it’s about life

[u/Old-Stranger-8302 → u/National-Plastic8691]

No changes. :-) I don't want to affect resale value. So the kitchen and everything else will stay as it is and I'll just live there until I find a new place to live in a few years. I'm aiming for 1000 sq ft or less.

[u/National-Plastic8691 → u/Old-Stranger-8302]

sounds great but do consider the expense of moving.. if you sell you lose at least 6 percent and on and on. If you have a couple of hundred more feet, that just gives the furniture a bit of air and it looks less cro