On a hot July night, Matt and Kelly were on all fours, measuring the lengths of walls in a home in Denver’s Virginia Village area, east of Colorado Boulevard and south of Leetsdale Drive — figuring whether a widescreen television would fit the space.
The pair, who moved west last year from Washington, D.C., are among a generation of potential buyers now, very much wanting to buy their “starter home” — hoping to do what their parents and grandparents did decades ago, to climb onto the homeownership ladder.
The decisions about that go way beyond room dimensions…