We've been chatting in our newsroom about the size of Canberra homes, specifically the growth in the number of bathrooms to bedrooms.

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New homes seem to have a minimum of three, and in many cases, a strict 1:1 ratio. That's a lot of cleaning and resupplies.

Growing up in an old Canberra three-beddy, we managed with one loo, one bathroom and a lot of screaming for people to "hurry up!"

We own one of these old homes now, but as soon as we could afford, we added a second bathroom. No such privation for this generation.

While I count our home as roomy enough, one minor gripe is the lack of wall space. There are only so many David Pope prints we can fit.

We have a one-off that David printed for me of Victor the Viking strangling a Balmain Tiger, the reboot of an old newspaper tradition of footy posters that harked back to the glory days of my childhood.

David's powerful COVID-19 "holding together, keeping apart" illo hangs in the old bathroom.

And the magnificent Lake Burley Griffin 50 years print is also in the hall, covering up the electrical fuse box that so often taunts me in midwinter.

A teen going through a stage of styling her room in muted........

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