Selling - Study or Third Bedroom?

RedSky1974

Hi all

Looking to sell my house January time.

It is a 3 bedroom semi, the third bedroom being the smallest. To give you a gauge on size; it is not big enough for a double bed, but a single would fit nicely.

As it's only my wife and I living in the house at the moment, I currently use the room as a study. I have a large corner desk which takes up half of two walls and a bookcase full of books. Also various posters in frames on the walls and ornaments on the desk. Walls are white with a standard cream carpet.


Now - would I be better getting rid of this furniture, and getting a cheap single bed with a nice bedding set, and maybe a cheap chest of drawers / keep the bookcase - to make it look like a third bedroom. Or maybe even a cot to make it look like a nursery area.

Or, should I just keep it as it is....

House will hopefully be worth around £130,000 - just to give an idea on price.


Thanks

Davesnave

Definitely 3rd bedroom with single bed etc.


How little imagination some potential buyers will have!

RedSky1974

Davesnave wrote: »

Definitely 3rd bedroom with single bed etc.


How little imagination some potential buyers will have!

That's what I was thinking. Our second bedroom currently used as the spare bedroom for guests was very little work and looks very nice, so I imagine the third bedroom will look a lot more appealing than a study with a big desk and a computer

AnotherJoe

I'd have thought most people would be better able to imagine putting a desk in what is a bedroom, than vice versa so that verges towards your plan of a bed plus again I'd think the majority of people buying a three bed want three beds and not 2 plus a study.

If you do redo it, put a single bed not a cot in. A cot in a room (like they do in show homes with tiny bedrooms) screams "not even big enough for a single bed" and anyone who sees a single bed can understand that a cot will fit but if theres a cot they might walk away with the impression that the room was only big enough for a cot. Plus that avoids a bunch of questions about how come there's no sign of a baby in the house whats going on etc.

davidmcn

Getting a cot for your non-existent baby seems slightly creepy...

I'd not get too bothered about how you present it - how many 3 bedroom houses actually use all 3 rooms as bedrooms? I'd guess it's more common for one (or two!) of them to have other uses.

Hoploz

I'd definitely say put a bed in there. Perhaps you could pack up and store anything you're not using in terms of office stuff, books, files etc.

I got one of those folding Z beds into my smallest bedroom when selling. It was cheap second hand (99p!) and worked well as it shows you can fit a bed in nicely (I actually had room to leave my desk in the room with it - in the space where a chest of drawers and wardrobe would go.) Also it was slightly smaller than a full size 3' bed with frame etc so gave the illusion of a little extra space.

hazyjo

Single bed with small bedside table and, if poss, a wardrobe. Sliding door on wardrobe if necessary!


I got this really tiny bedside table for my minute 3rd bed which is only 4'-something wide. We've made it really cosy with a single bed and it gets used regularly when people stay. The drawers we got were slightly different to this - ours are cream and plain, not hammered metal/patterned/white.


https://www.wayfair.co.uk/furniture/pdp/all-home-2-drawer-bedside-table-hvw10661.html


PS And this bedframe which fits under our window and looks nice in the room


https://www.wayfair.co.uk/furniture/pdp/limelight-nimbus-bed-frame-lim1244.html

Grenage

We left ours as a study when selling the last house; people can see how much room is available.


I wouldn't waste any money or real effort in making it look more like a bedroom.

NicNicP

Personally I’d leave it as it if. If it doesn’t sell and the feedback points to the third bedroom being the issue, then I’d put a bed in. I’d have it put on the listing that it fits a single bed in comfortably though.

NaughtiusMaximus

If it's a case of buying the bed and bedding purely for the photos then reselling them afterwards I would leave as is.

I would hope any potential buyer would have the common sense to judge by the room measurements what size of bed the could fit in the room.

bouicca21

I had a bedroom tricked out as a study in both my last houses, left them as that when we sold. No one commented on it.

I think it was pretty obvious that if you can get a huge number of books and a full size desk, printer and pc and still have room to move, then putting a bed in is a doddle.