kw, that was a trend in new homes up this way in the last few years. There are no pictures but many of the homes recently built in the 2500 to 4000 sq ft range don’t exceed 4 or 5 bedrooms. High bedroom counts can be problematic for neighborhoods (inviting to group homes, multiple families, etc.) Many have an upstairs livingroom at the top of the stairs, the secondary bedrooms are large and there are usually formal and informal living and dining rooms. As far as being close to family members, those usually have a great room where the kitchen, informal dining and informal living room are all one open room. Having lived in one, loved it, having vaccumed one, hated it. I will say the loft/upstairs living room is cool if you have kids and toys that you’d rather not have overtake all of the living spaces or have to clean up everything all the time.
