Bedroom vs reception room

phoebe1989seb

Our last house had two bedrooms plus bathroom upstairs and living room, kitchen, conservatory, two shower rooms plus a further four good-sized rooms downstairs.

When we purchased in 2007 part of the downstairs had previously been presented/used as an annexe for elderly relations but as our son had just gone to uni and there were just the two of us (plus four cats) and we were downsizing from a much larger six bedroom house, we found it ideal to use all the additional downstairs rooms as reception rooms.....study, music room, dining room, sitting room etc.

Last year we sold that house and the EA marketed it as a 5/6 bedroom house which suited our buyers as they had three young children and parents who lived overseas but would be visiting regularly for extended stays. They chose to keep one downstairs room as a dining room but used the other extra rooms as bedrooms - one already had an attached shower room thus asking a ready made en-suite.

Regarding price/marketing we always look at the overall square-footage and room sizes rather than the actual definition of the rooms as it's the way you intend to use them that matters rather than how the previous owners have done and as long as the spaces are big enough for our requirements (we have lots of stuff, lol!), that's most important.

I quite agree that number of bedrooms is not as important as it used to be - unless you are a large family - and would always choose multiple receptions over bedrooms personally