http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/30177138/list/houzz-tv-fun-family-living-in-980-square-feet Despite designing Texas-size homes (often topping 15,000 square feet), designer-builders Mark Schatz and his wife, Anne Eamon, are used to living in smaller homes. For 14 years they lived in a 700-square-foot house that they designed and built by hand. Now they and their two young daughters live in a 980-square-foot home that they also designed and built.