Swinging the cat....

The sofa won't fit into the living room. There's not enough room for children to play in the kitchen as you cook. And where's the recycling bin meant to go?

These are some of the complaints from residents of new-build developments surveyed by Cabe, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

The floor area and room sizes are the smallest in Europe - the average room in a newly built dwelling in France is 26.9 square metres, compared with 15.8 square metres in the UK - and, the graph below shows how British new-builds are less than half the size of those in the United States and Australia.



Compact & Bijou, less space to heat and a smaller land footprint, makes for an ideal home, or so the estate agents would have you believe..... I'd personally go with an American home where biggest is always best....

Size does matter - So Mrs Jackson keeps telling me,

Until the next one,

Mr Jackson.