As someone who grew up in a house that was definitely too small for a 4-person family, it makes keeping the house decluttered a lot more difficult because there's just not space to put things away. And god forbid you aquire NEW things, because then you have to shuffle everything around to make a place for it or it just ends up laying around.

Dispersion is the problem. In the last place, there were 2 places the kids could wreck, the living room and their shared bedroomso we could tidy them and it would be presentable..... this place? Half dozen easy, plus there's 2 additional bathrooms, the kitchen is twice the size and the basement is like a soccer pitch sized FFS.

We needed the space, last place wasn't working so these are good problems to have but it's definitely more than I anticipated.

I say it depends on the type of people making the mess. I myself can live with a little mess. If it not catastrophic, I might add to it by not putting some stuff away immediately. But at some point, it's too much, and I'll be putting things in order as I go, instead of adding more.

But with a bigger place, I can spread it more, so overall more mess can be made before I stop adding more