What sized homes do you prefer?

Usually two story max. It depends on the build for me because I find sims won't use anything or occupy stuff on 3+ floors, especially community lots. Unless I'm doing it wrong lol.

Large in general. I usually always add a basement at some point and play with eight sims. It does, depend, though. If I am renovating a premade house, I usually have to add a lot more layers to get the space I need compared to when I build them myself.

My most recent example is a family of eight siblings. I moved them into a premade house that was two stories with three bathrooms and three bedrooms. I was able to cram them in, but especially as I started working on school projects and sending some to college and employment it was not enough space. I added a third floor to make them two floor bedrooms and a basement for offices, two bathrooms, a yard fence, and two laundry rooms.

I am also really enjoying the haunted houses, so most of my main residential builds are.

Max 2 floors + basement. Its also more about the size of the property, as I also need a fairly large greenhouse with room for one of each plant.

One story but like really huge cuz sims take 10 years to climb up the stairs. XD

I like to have variety for my families. Don't really like big houses though.

My 69 households live in all kinds of buildings, but my favourites are small two-story houses, with the living room, kitchen/dining area and a small bathroom downstairs, bedrooms and possibly more bathrooms upstairs. A bungalow is also nice as long as it's not too big; nothing looks weirder than a one-story house that takes up half a square kilometre of space.

I would enjoy apartments more if we could build our own and most of them weren't in my least favourite world. What I don't like at all is huge modern homes with an open floor plan. Apart from not knowing what to do with all that space, I'm just not into the big warehouse vibe.

Mainly one story or two story, I guess. Sometimes a basement is fun to have and sometimes I like to have a larger mansion. I dislike cramped homes, but in the end it depends on the family's needs, the layout and furnishings.

For gameplay I prefer bigger homes, it's nice to be able to pan around the house rather than just having the whole thing in one small place. For building I usually either make apartments or tiny homes just as they're easier and more my style.

It entirely depends on the household and the story that I’m telling.
I have many story saves and I rarely play rotationally within those saves; more often than not I just explore the story with one sim per save.

A lot of the time I play with “homeless” adventurous sims: basically a dude who makes some friends and stays in their house for a couple of nights, has a couple of adventures, then moves on to the next town for some new adventures. Or he sleeps on a bench in the park.
Usually he “owns” a tiny empty lot in Newcrest, because as a player I’m forced to assign a lot to my active sim, but I pretend it doesn’t exist. I ignore the bill when it arrives. The company cutting off the power and water supply doesn’t make any difference to my sim. Not that the empty lot uses water or electricity.

Other times the sims reside in a dingy apartment, or in a shed. Or in a huge family mansion, or castle.

Again, I have no preference, as long as the lot suits the story. Therefore I build my own story lots or re-decorate an apartment whenever the household requires one.

I usually play in a very large house on a 64x64 lot. I like to play families with 6 or more kids and I want them to have enough space