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What is a 'bedroom'?

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  • Agree with beautifulgorgeous. Ikea beds are a bit 'oversized'.

    GW
  • sooz
    sooz Posts: 4,560 Forumite
    poppysarah wrote: »
    They use 3/4 size furniture in new build to make them look a sensible size.

    And many other tricks too ;). Most showhomes lack internal doors, special small furniture is comissioned, & much of it is put on overtall legs, so that you can see more floor space below.
  • sooz
    sooz Posts: 4,560 Forumite
    Agree with beautifulgorgeous. Ikea beds are a bit 'oversized'.

    GW

    the smallest full size adult single bed (not shorty) you can get will be a divan base. If you get anything with a wooden frame it adds both width & length.
  • tbs624
    tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
    Don`t go to Ikea for a bed, they are longer than a uk one and the one I bought will not fit in the alcove but the ordinary one will. You can also buy "shorty" beds
    Some of their beds are longer than beds bought elsewhere, some are not, so the simple solution is to check on the website first and measure against the size of the room. Buying a shorty bed would be no better than the arrangement that the OP currently has: it's about setting the room up as a standard single bedroom.It wasn't just about beds though in a room that size and shape - it's about streamlined storage and that's what that store excels at, at fairly reasonable prices.:smiley:
  • Robert_Sterling
    Robert_Sterling Posts: 2,207 Forumite
    I was not allowed to say "four bedroomed house"
    So I said "Four rooms upstairs"
    Viewers could see that there were 4 bedrooms but to get to one of them you had to walk through another first.
    ..
  • Doozergirl wrote: »
    There are minimum size standards for Social Housing. There aren't for private houses.

    That's why it reads funny regarding minimum sizes for children and adults. No-one can dictate who goes where in a private dwelling; it's to prevent overcrowding in social housing.

    Doozergirl is correct. The linked article is in reference to the local councils attempts to control multiple occupancy laws and is really only enforceable on properites beign letted and/or subletted where agreements allow it.

    This is not applicable to selling a property. Another correct point would be as previously said, the room must be accesable in its own right and not via another room. But this question has laready been answered

    Lisalulu......did you chat to your ea & how did you get on?
  • hookbeak
    hookbeak Posts: 28 Forumite
    The house i'm interested in buying is marketed as a 4 bed - although to my mind it blatantly isn't. It has 2 good sized bedrooms upstairs and a very small third room that has a staircase in it leading up to the converted loft (which is huge).

    However bedroom 4 is downstairs next to the living room. It is quite blatantly a reception room that they have put a bed in.

    I'm therefore thinking of putting beds in all my rooms, including the kitchen and bathroom and advertising it as a 7 bed semi.
  • vanpiggy
    vanpiggy Posts: 69 Forumite
    Thank you for the laugh you just gave me hookbeak! Goodness me. You'd think when its in both your interests to achieve a sale that the EA would just market it as a 2 bedroom house and assume that the potential buyer had the intelligence to decide whether they wanted it or not after a viewing.... madness.
  • WillowCat
    WillowCat Posts: 974 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    I was taking a look at houses recently and *this* was called a bedroom:

    [IMG]file:///tmp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG]3487_TAT090063_IMG_05_0000.JPG

    Where do you throw your dirty clothes then?:rotfl:
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I had a builder doing work on my house a few years back and he was telling me about the alterations he was making to a house owned by a kebab/pizza shop owner. He housed all of his staff. The builder was asked to cut a landing space in half and create 3 bunk beds in a cupboard - so that'd be like the bed in the above room, but stacked 3 high in a cupboard.

    That's how illegals live quite often. Crammed in, over the shop. Out of sight.
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