Are these bedroom sizes big enough? Should we extend?

ReadingTim

I'm guessing it was originally built as a 3 bedroom house, with the 'master' bedroom being a later creation? If that's the case, and you're essentially going back to how it was built, then I don't think you'll have a problem with disproportionately small rooms: you've essentially got a double room, a single room and a box room.

Marketed along those lines and you'll be fine - just don't try and claim there are 3 double room upstairs, try and get a double bed into the middle-sized bedroom or more than a cot or child's bed in the box room.

Hoploz

Doesn't sound too bad to me.

Southerner3000

Hi Tim,

Yes in essence that is what we are aiming to do - as for how it was originally built I'm unsure as sold prices indicate it has always been sold as a 2 bed house.

There are other properties on the same street/within 1/2 mile which have similar floor space upstairs that are 3 bed properties that seem to sell well (within a week or two).

We would be losing the airing cupboard which these other properties seem to have - that to me seems the biggest obstacle, and by reading the comments here is obviously something that people have a need for. We do have a loft that is fully boarded up with retractable ladder that can be used as storage but appreciate this isn't practical for daily use!

Something to think about for sure.

ReadingTim

The new/old 3 bed layout looks like a pretty standard design for a post-war housing estate semi or terrace design, and I've no doubt people will see it for the small family house that it is - it's perfectly suitable for a couple with up to two kids, but you probably wouldn't want the younger one in the box room much after their 2nd birthday.

The airing cupboard would have contained the hot water cylinder in the days before combi boilers and even without the warming properties of the hot water tank is a greater loss as storage space than you'd gain in bedroom space.

dirty_magic

Our bedroom is slightly different dimensions but the same square meterage as yours would be and I think it's small. There's not a lot of room to move around when the furniture is in, but we use the other room as a dressing room to avoid waking each other up because we work different shifts.

We have a spare double wardrobe in the spare room so we're fine for storage space, but we don't have kids. Will you fit a moses basket in your room if you do have another child? We couldn't fit one in ours.

economic

keep in mind size is not everything - a rectangular bedroom which has a slightly less area then a square bedrom may be better as you can lay the furniture in a way to create more usable space. also depends where things like windows, doors are etc. size really is not everything.

Southerner3000

Thank you for all your thoughts on this - gives us something to go on.

We're probably going to re-decorate and re-carpet as a 2 bed for now as our circumstances currently suit 2 bedrooms with baby on the way.

5 year fix runs out in 2021, planning permission will be appied for between now and then and then assess the market and whether we need to sell (turn to 3 bedrooms) or stay put and extend.

lady1964

We don't have an airing cupboard in our house, there wasn't one when we bought it over 18 years ago. However, we do have quite a large landing so we have an ottoman there to store towels & bedding and the beds are framed so spare pillows/duvets are stored underneath in vacu bags. The OP might consider these as options.

Our master bedroom is under 10' wide so our bed has drawers underneath. That said we do have a dressing area which has 3 metres of wardrobes so hanging storage isn't a problem.

ellie27

These were the sizes of bedrooms 2 and 3 in our last 3 bed-semi...... Bedroom 2: 3.40m x 2.82m (11ft 2ins x 9ft 3ins)
Bedroom 3: 2.87m x 2.11m (9ft 5ins x 6ft 11ins)

Both were single childrens bedrooms, and were fine for our toddlers. You could just about fit a double in that bedroom 2, but not much else!