A new study from a UCLA research team found that Americans rarely utilize their large homes.
A heat maps from the study show that people tend to spend most of their time in the kitchen and around the TV, leaving dining rooms, formal living rooms, and porches virtually untouched, MarketWatch reports.
This challenges the idea of the American Dream, which claims large homes as a mark of success. “The findings were not pretty. In fact, they helped prove how little we use our big homes for things other than clutter,” says Steve Adcock, author of the blog Get Rich Slowly. “Most families don’t use large areas of their homes — which means they’ve essentially wasted money on space they don’t need.”
