Renting a Room when you are gay

Soundgirlrocks

Honeylife wrote: »

Sadly those 4ft beds are being squeezed into single rooms, then marketed as double rooms with no room to swing a cat!

I'm guilty of this - I had the room as a single (with a very happy lodger for 4 years) on remarketing the room my other half nagged me to put in a small double in as I wasn't getting much interest and "no one wants a single room"

I changed the bed a week before the old lodger moved out and his comment was it made the room feel so much bigger. The new lodger had seen the add when listed as a single but loved the new bed when she came to view the room and took it on the spot.

Lesson learned 4ft doubles are more popular than a single, no matter the room size!

Honeylife

Soundgirlrocks wrote: »

I'm guilty of this - I had the room as a single (with a very happy lodger for 4 years) on remarketing the room my other half nagged me to put in a small double in as I wasn't getting much interest and "no one wants a single room"

I changed the bed a week before the old lodger moved out and his comment was it made the room feel so much bigger. The new lodger had seen the add when listed as a single but loved the new bed when she came to view the room and took it on the spot.

Lesson learned 4ft doubles are more popular than a single, no matter the room size!

I accidentally bought a very strange size bed; a 3½ ft bed or 107cm! With an extra 6 inches in length too. Apparently its called a King Single or Large Single. It was advertised as a single bed frame and already taken apart when I picked it up. I didn't notice until I tried to put the regular single mattress on and it went completely through it. :eek: Thought I was going crazy! Its quite rare, found in some B&Bs, mostly on the continent. Managed to get a new mattress to fit it but getting fitted sheets was hard work until I found that Electric beds were roughly the same size. All my lodgers absolutely love it!