Can I get king size beds in these rooms?

newhomebuild

Sorry everyone, I’m not very good with metrics - can someone confirm if it would be tight or fit? I don’t really get length or width 

Doozergirl

newhomebuild said:

Sorry everyone, I’m not very good with metrics - can someone confirm if it would be tight or fit? I don’t really get length or width 

The loft is fine if the head of the bed is on the top wall. 

The other one would need to go with the head on the right hand wall and whether it clashes with the door depends on the distance between the wall and the door.  You want a minimum of 2 metres to clear the foot of the bed.  I suspect they will
have accounted for that.  

If you tried to put the head of the bed on the very long wall, you'd only clear about 50cm so would have to try hard to avoid clash with doors.  

Why is a new build house so badly designed?  It's like actual
layout is a complete afterthought.  

neilmcl

newhomebuild said:

Sorry everyone, I’m not very good with metrics - can someone confirm if it would be tight or fit? I don’t really get length or width 

A kings size bed is going to be a minimum of 150cm wide up to around 170cm, depending on the size of bed frame. If you put a king sized bed in bedroom 1 with the headboard against the wall on the right as we look from the plan then you're not going to have much room for a couple of bedside tables either side. you could have it facing the ensuite but again you've not got a load of space between the foot of the bed and the bathroom. Personally I'd go for a double in that room.

You may have better luck in bedroom 3 but it depends how much the door comes in.

As mentioned earlier you'd best get the exact dimensions of the bed and using that put down some masking tape on the floor to see for yourself what will be suitable for you. 

BUFF

Doozergirl said:

Why is a new build house so badly designed?  It's like actual
layout is a complete afterthought.  

I used to do bathroom specification work to developers.
As a man who shaved it always nagged me that basins were inevitably put under windows so you had to swivel to face a mirror inevitably dripping onto the floor rather than into the basin. When asked (& I asked more than 1 developer's architect/designer etc.) none of them could say why. 
Looks like they have now provided the solution by removing windows from all bathrooms ... 

MrsBrush

Seems to me that new build properties are all about squishing in lots of rooms and unnecessary en-suites rather than providing well planned living space. Don't think this is a new issue though, the challenges seem to change with the decades!

My last place was a 1950s bungalow that had a garage that you had absolutely no chance of getting a car into!

My current house is a 1970s 3 bed semi, which has plenty of space, but there are no electric sockets anywhere, so it is currently extension lead city in here! The kitchen was probably planned by a child (not helped by previous owner then randomly blocking the back door, putting a fridge / freezer in the gap, replacing the 1970s units but not creating any more workspace) so the whole kitchen, which is 11ft x 9ft has a few units in an area that is around 2m squared! The rest of it is totally wasted - it has a huge 1m x 1m floor to ceiling cupboard for the hot air boiler, and a random pillar box red wall with the access to the under the stairs cupboard - making 2/3rds of the total space totally useless, and its dark all the time because it is north facing and there is no longer a glazed west facing back door!     

TELLIT01

Doozergirl said:

Why is a new build house so badly designed?  It's like actual
layout is a complete afterthought.  

Many, many years ago I worked as a quantity surveyor.  Even then I thought exactly the same thing.  It was pretty clear that form was more important than substance to architects and designers.  After all, they weren't going to live in the houses they designed.  If you watch Grand Designs you will often see that nothing much has changed.  Some years ago a work colleague brought in 'artist impressions' along with floor plans of a house he had just paid a deposit on.  My immediate question was "Where are you going to store anything?"  The bedrooms all just about had room for the bed and a couple of bedside cabinets.  They had been so carried away with the show home that it never occurred to them.