What is a 'bedroom'?

lostinrates

WillowCat wrote: »

I was taking a look at houses recently and *this* was called a bedroom:

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Where do you throw your dirty clothes then?:rotfl:

The hardest thing would be making the bed that neatly: because you'd be having to crawl all over it. But it looks kind of cosy

sooz

If that is a bedroom, how small do you think the bathroom in that house was?
And is that a wallpaper pattern, or condensation mould up the wall?

BitterAndTwisted

It looks like a wallpaper pattern to these eyes.

When I was a tiny nipper my great-granny slept on a single bed in a cupboard/closet thingy in the living-room. It goes without saying that the family were very, very poor at the time.

WillowCat

sooz wrote: »

If that is a bedroom, how small do you think the bathroom in that house was?
And is that a wallpaper pattern, or condensation mould up the wall?

I think it's the wallpaper pattern. Needless to say the agent declined to put any of the room dimensions in the listing. Kitchen also looked completely cramped.

I remember when I split a bedroom in my first house to put a bathroom in upstairs, I insisted to the builder that the remaining bedroom be 6' wide (by 10') as it seemed to me to then sound like a full size room. Less than six foot wide is pushing it a bit. (I reckon the piccie above is about 3 foot six inches....)

barnaby-bear

lostinrates wrote: »

The hardest thing would be making the bed that neatly: because you'd be having to crawl all over it. But it looks kind of cosy

yeahhhh! Kind of like a coffin...........

PasturesNew

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

It looks like a wallpaper pattern to these eyes.

When I was a tiny nipper my great-granny slept on a single bed in a cupboard/closet thingy in the living-room. It goes without saying that the family were very, very poor at the time.

If you go to the Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagans, you get to wander in/out of the old houses and there's a lurking guide in each one.

One of them is a tiny house, but there's a free standing cupboard ... the guide will tell you that is where the maid slept.

In another house (total floor space was about 12'x10' ) the whole family would have slept on top of the (built in) cupboards.

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/

It's free to go in and around. Leave 3-4 hours to do the lot. Take your own food as there's not a lot there unless you go to the pub across the road. £2.50 to park.

poppysarah

WillowCat wrote: »

I was taking a look at houses recently and *this* was called a bedroom:

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Where do you throw your dirty clothes then?:rotfl:

A room with a padded floor... Nice..

GracieP

lostinrates wrote: »

The hardest thing would be making the bed that neatly: because you'd be having to crawl all over it. But it looks kind of cosy

Easy-peasy! You make the bed from up a ladder through the window.:p

Cozworth806

On a serious note however the only thing I could see as an issue would be if the surveyor decided that one bedroom should not be treated as a bedroom, which would negatively affect the valuation.
One reason would be a bedroom with access to another room in it (staircase or linked room)

Lisalulu

Just spoken to my EA who STILL refuses to market the room as a bedroom! So it looks like we're stuck with them for another week and a half before we shift over to another EA (who also valued the house, and has agreed to market it properly) Thanks again for the advice