Is this size house average or small?

My house is small.
I've had no complaints.
It's what you do with it that counts.
I trim the bush to make it look bigger
I can send you a deck pic if you want to see :)

That’s actually quite a bit bigger than average for Ireland!

The average for stand alone new builds in Ireland is 2325sq ft (216 sq m). In an estate it’s about 1281 sq ft (119 sq m).
Figures from first quarter 2023.

Of course, in a rural location houses will tend to be bigger as sites aren’t as expensive.

Sounds small in comparison to new build houses locally here in rural Ireland, but these are individual plots and not Estate houses. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mine is a fairly average sized 4 bed and roughly about 3,600 sq ft.

Everything’s relative.
to me it’s huge.

It's definitely larger than "average" in the UK. For context, in the South East but outside London, a property in a reasonably desirable location will cost somewhere between £400-500/square foot.

A 1600sqft property would cost about £700k where I live.

OP when you say bathrooms, do they have baths or showers or are they just UK toilets?

The problem with Uk houses is that in a four bedroomed house, three are double and the fourth you can’t swing a cat in let alone a single bed and wardrobe. I like the US system when, I think, a room has to have a wardrobe before it can be called a bedroom. The house OP says is 1,600 square feet which is good but space is taken up by a staircase and new builds have laundry rooms and en suites are a must for at least one room.

Ah but only if you’re human-sized; if you’re 15 - 20 foot tall, 1600 sf is positively squashed

Based on sq2 that is a large house. Average house in UK is 828 sq2

Can I just ask how big you all are? Because we’re about average-sized and honestly none of us struggle to fit in any of our rooms; in fact we have ample space for super king beds, large couches, separate dining areas etc. Unless I was 3 x the width and twice the height I currently am (so 15 foot and 30 stone), I can’t imagine struggling with the space in my house. I’m not saying US homes aren’t larger on average (you have more land - it makes sense), but to say all multimillion pound homes right across the UK are ‘dogshit’ is pure hyperbole @AnotherChildFreeCatLady .

But of course, without those fantastical millions in my bank account, and a rightmove search area encompassing all kinds of imaginary places, what do I know

1600 square feet and 4 bedrooms? Jesus Christ how small are the rooms? Our house is 2800 square feet and three bedrooms. That’s about normal here in Florida. I can’t imagine living in a house with rooms so small.

Yes of course you earn very good money and and no doubt at all you have a very large amount of money in the bank, and of course you are looking at 2 million pound plus properties and it’s utterly tragic all these multi million pound UK houses you have viewed are all dog shit. You are so blessed you can easily move somewhere else but admirably you stay put living in a pile of dog shit of a house in the UK despite all your money and the world being your oyster. You should look on rightmove at this area, it sounds right up your street!

You might want to look more closely at the floor plans of us homes. My mom’s 3 bed has similar square footage to my uk 6 bed (4,000 sqft). She is under the impression that I live in a mansion because all she sees is ‘6 bedrooms’ but those bedrooms are half as big and have none of the extensive built in storage that she has.

the average home size in the us is 2,500 sqft vs and average of 1,000sqft in the uk, so more than double. Obviously people manage, but I know where I would rather live. Those us homes also don’t tend to suffer from poor insulation, damp, mould that seem to be inescapable in the uk. Uk housing stock is really poor - I have lived in about a dozen countries and the uk has been the worst general standard.

It depends what you are used to - my mother was commenting on brother’s bedrooms (different country) as being small and only suitable for children. They were bigger than a standard uk double room - bigger than many master bedrooms in new builds! In my home country bedrooms only count if they have built in storage (usually built in closets) so uk bedrooms are both smaller and have to accommodate more furniture.

I'm from the US so I know for sure that the housing is much nicer and much bigger and I'm not basing that on films and movies as if that is an accurate description. We currently rent a very shitty, typical UK house and have been looking at houses to buy. And yes, the houses are dog shit and that's in the 2 million plus pound range. I'm not bitter, we both make very good money and have a very large amount of money in the bank so dont feel too sorry for me, we can easily just move somewhere else. I just know we want something better than the shit here, period or otherwise. Anyway, enjoy trying to justify your poor standard of living, you really showed me!

I think you must live in terrible housing! Mine is a beautiful, well-sized period house with plenty of space for my whole family. Everyone has their own space as and when they need it. A lot of the UK’s older housing is solid and well built; our house is beautifully crafted with tiny details everywhere you wouldn’t find in a newer home. I’m not sure what this ‘norm’ is that you’re referring to as acceptable as even in US / Canadian films, they don’t have tons more space than we do - more land maybe, but not huge, sprawling houses whilst we’re packed into unliveable boxes… We are fairly privileged but a lot of council housing (traditional) is well-sized too so honestly I think you’re either bitter about your own circumstances and projecting, or trying to wind everyone up

Yet here you are apparently, sorry you can’t afford a nice house in the UK that must be awful for you living in substandard accommodation.

Lol, I didn't grew up here, I grew up with much nicer houses of much better quality but whatever you have to say to make yourself feel better. Me saying houses in the UK are horrible is nothing new, most people complain about the houses here, they are hideous and not fit for purpose.

This is interesting

The housing here is, well, horrendous.

It really isn’t, you are more than welcome to your hideous built of paper faux McMansions.

OK, its not what I consider suitable and I would never try to manage with something so small. But as I said previously, people in the UK have just gotten so used to shitty, unfunctional housing that people just make do with something most people would consider unsuitable.

The housing here is, well, horrendous.

My 3 bed semi detached is 75 square metres. We have 2 double bedrooms and a single (with smart planning we'll get a double bed in there too though!)

We have 1 bathroom.

We've managed perfectly well as a family of 4 (2 parents, 2 DC).

In our cul-de-sac our model of house built 1988 was the biggest model!

There's a family with 3 DC in a smaller house.

Perhaps your post should say "not what I consider suitable..."

Ours was 1250 square feet with 3 good size bedrooms before we did the loft conversion. Downstairs is too small in my opinion however we're used to it now.

Honestly I think any house with 3/4 bedrooms cannot possibly be ‘small’ for an average sized family. Where I live, you’re looking at nearly a million for a four bed detached and over 500k for a large semi detached. New builds are generally smaller in terms of square footage but tend to have four bedrooms or more bathrooms. I have no experience of property in other countries, but my house feels big for four of us (1400 sf) so anyone saying this sort of size is ‘too small’ is on the wind up I think.

I don't think so.

I'm in the UK so yes m2. My house is 155m2, so 1668 ft sq, so just a tiny bit bigger than the OP's 1600.

My house could not be described as small by UK standards.

It's a detached dormer bungalow with large rooms - large hallway, two very large reception rooms, decent sized kitchen, one very large bedroom downstairs, another decent sized double, and a large bathroom with oversized bath plus walk in shower.

Upstairs two good sized double bedrooms, a box room, and a decent sized bathroom.

We sacrificed on a couple of other factors in order to get the space as it was very much one of the larger properties available (we viewed loads).

I'd say 1600 sq ft is above average for a UK house. Although as others have said, if it has lots of en-suites etc shoehorned in it could feel small.

A house of 1600 square metres would be absolutely enormous.