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Are the editors of Fine Homebuilding truly incensed at Mr Chase's extraordinarily large home or have they seized upon the Courant article as yet another opportunity to plug their obsession with Sarah Susanka and the Not-So-Big House (which they publish, and, like any publisher, hope to profit from)? None of us will probably ever come remotely close to building a home like Mr. Chase's. But small houses are not the panacea for all housing, social, environmental and architectual woes that the small-house movement would have us believe. Nor are people with larger homes as socially irresponsible and as architecturally obtuse as the folks designing and building Not-So-Big-Houses portray them.

Small houses are just that - small houses. In many instances, especially as families grow, they are too small, uncomfortable, lacking adequate storage and devoid of amenities that most of us wish we could afford. That's why millions of people, myself included, would like to have the opportunity later in life to build a BIGGER house.

It's one thing for bloggers to go to one extreme or another in stating their opinions. It is different, however, when the editors of a responsible magazine get so obsessed with an issue - especially one in which they, as publishers, may have a conflict of interest - that they in effect are demeaning the legitimate aspirations of many of their readers.