Single person buying a 2 bedroom house?

househuntingmad

I'm single and I live in a 3 bedroom house and didn't consider anything smaller when I was looking. I had one bedroom for myself, one as a study, and another as a guest room / storage room. It's surprising how much you get to enjoy having the extra space!

So (personally speaking) I would go for 2 in your situation above 1 any day.

pathtofreedom

I'm going from a 3 bed with 2 receptions, to a 2 bed. I'm having to get rid of so much stuff, I'm worried the new 2 bed isn't going to be big enough. I'm going to use the second bedroom as an office as I work from home a lot, but also put a murphy (wall) bed in there so it can be used as a spare room once in a while.

As others have said at least with more than one room, you can always look into getting a lodger if you get yourself into difficulty for any reason too.

moneyistooshorttomention

Basically - I use the term "sitting room".

My last house (a Victorian terrace) had a sitting room and a dining room. The sitting room wasnt big enough to use as a dining room too anyway.

My current house just has one reception room and the kitchen isnt big enough imo (would be in some peoples opinion - but not mine) to have a table/chairs in there too. That one reception room here is basically meant to double up as both a sitting room and a dining room and it does (that's where my dining table/chairs now is). I therefore tend to describe it as a "through lounge" - because its the size of a sitting room and dining room knocked together (ie 20' or more long). If there was a dining room too - then I would call it a sitting room.

That's probably about as clear as daylight - but it makes sense to me:rotfl:

No wonder furriners struggle with the English language......LOL....

anamenottaken

boliston wrote: »

lounge=working class
sitting room=middle class
drawing room=upper class

An hotel is the establishment that has a lounge.

bouicca21

As a child from a working class family I had a sitting room: at my middle class secondary school I learned to call it a lounge. Now the position is reversed, and middle class people suddenly have sitting rooms - I'm not sure about the status of living rooms, not heard that in quite a while.

Similarly I had to be trained to say "pardon?" instead of "what?", then as an adult discovered that really posh people think pardon is unpardonably middle class and say "what?"

It's a bit like black pudding - it used to be naff and working class and now it's trendy and pretentious.

Life and language change ...

Riggyman

I have two living rooms, I like to call one the "Drawing room" but it's actually the ironing and Nintendo room...

Hedgehog99

I have a one-bed house with a loft room.

Have had to have a major cull of stuff in preparation for moving.

Don't know how two people manage in this size of place.

Loft tempted me to chuck stuff up there when tidying in haste, so it's been hard work. Nearly there now.

One bed + loft is cheaper council tax than a two- bed if you know you would never want a lodger.

Awkward for having guests though - no privacy for whoever sleeps in lounge because the stairs are straight from the lounge with no hallway.

Also depends where you are buying - one-bed in high price/popular area will sell well, but you need to buy more bedrooms in a cheaper area.

-taff

Lived in a one bed flat, missed a garden, intended buying a 2 bed for myself, with the bonus that I could rent a room if I wanted to.
Circustamces changed, ended up with a 3 bed, but if i had been buying by myself, a 2 bed would have been the minimum i would have gone for , finances permitting.

moneyistooshorttomention

bouicca21 wrote: »

As a child from a working class family I had a sitting room: at my middle class secondary school I learned to call it a lounge. Now the position is reversed, and middle class people suddenly have sitting rooms - I'm not sure about the status of living rooms, not heard that in quite a while.

Similarly I had to be trained to say "pardon?" instead of "what?", then as an adult discovered that really posh people think pardon is unpardonably middle class and say "what?"

It's a bit like black pudding - it used to be naff and working class and now it's trendy and pretentious.

Life and language change ...

...and then you can move to Wales and decide to learn Welsh (as I initially did) and get met by uncomprehending looks when you say "right that's the word for 'toilet' and the word for 'outside loo' and what are the words for loo and lavatory?" and find that you are being told a word means dinner and you find you've just been told the word for lunch and then start asking what the word for dinner (ie evening meal) is and what is the word for supper and tea?

I think I came to the conclusion that there arent these different variations (according to the person speaking) for different things - unlike English (where you have to know all variants - as you could be asked for the toilet, loo or lavatory for instance). Evening meal could be dinner, tea, high tea or supper (again - you have to know all variants). Then you sit down for your meal and wonder if you will be offered a serviette, napkin or nothing......LOL

You just have to live in England for decades to be able to interpret all the variants of our language you might find someone speaking to you...

moneyistooshorttomention

Back to number of rooms needed - and I would struggle to use my through lounge as guest bedroom as well if the staircase went up in the middle of it. In the event - I'm in a bungalow anyway - but that was one of the reasons I wouldnt have bought that style of house. If you get one like that - then you really do need to have 3 bedrooms.

Laughing now at how many from a previous generation would have gone "Why do you want a study anyway?" - whereas I think most people my generation (Baby Boomer) and younger want a room for study/home office/hobby room/meditation room (delete as applicable).