What do you think the smallest room an estate agent should be allowed to describe a 'generous double' ?

[JeffsanArsehole]

Because there really should be a minimum

[lalalonglegs]

Difficult one - I'd like to see some sort of benchmark for "luxury apartment" too beyond it having walls, windows and running water.

[CocktailQueen]

One where you can comfortably fit a double bed plus bedside cabinets and some other furniture - chair/dressing table/chest of drawers - and be able to walk comfortably round the bed to get in from all sides.

[ouryve]

One you can actually get a kingsize bed in, plus plenty of storage, and not have to climb over anything to get from one side of the room to the other.

[JeffsanArsehole]

7foot 1inch by 7foot 5inch is the room I'm talking about

Totally ridiculous to me. Yes, it's London.

[irregularegular]

Noooo! That's a pretty mean single!

[TheOriginalWinkly]

Oh the estate agent can get fucked. That's a small double! That would leave about a foot at the bottom of a kingsize bed.

[Pisghetti]

That's a nonsense isn't it? My nursery is roughly that size and we can't fit much in there.

[Howtheheck]

We looked at a new build spacious single room dh feet were nearly up the wall he lay down to see how long it was he is 6ft 1 we also saw a house where they had a boxroom /nursery it was a bloody cupboard the estate agent had the grace to look embarased about it.

[PassiveAgressiveQueen]

One where you can comfortably fit a double bed plus bedside cabinets and some other furniture - chair/dressing table/chest of drawers - and be able to walk comfortably round the bed to get in from all sides.

nope that is a double bedroom, any less is a single bedroom

i would say 12' x 12' is generous.

[PassiveAgressiveQueen]

7foot 1inch by 7foot 5inch is the room I'm talking about

so that is 49 sq ft (ignoring inches), my min was 144 sq ft, small difference.

[wonkylegs]

If that's the case our box room has just become a double and those space standards probably mean we have room for at least 34 people to sleep comfortably!
I've never read an estate agents details that I haven't taken with a pinch of salt.

[TheGreenNinja]

So a double bed is 4'6" x 6" leaving you a generous 2 and a half feet around the sides (OK, so you have to share it out evenly so 1'3" ish each) and a huge 1'5" at the end. Pfft, don't know what you are complaining about! There must be simply loads of wardrobes that are 6-7 inches deep!

[hollinhurst84]

I went to view a house advertised as 3 double bedrooms. Turned out to be a generous double, a standard ish double and a room that you could fit a cot in. And nothing else

[namechangedtoday15]

That is not even a double I wouldn't have said. Even if a standard double was pushed up against one wall, a standard interior door wouldn't be able to open into the bedroom.

[Bimblywibble]

That is ridiculous. I think you always have to take qualitative words like "generous" with a pinch of salt though.

I do remember rejecting an otherwise decent house because there was no space for even a moses basket next to a standard double bed in the "master" bedroom. Trouble was they'd shoehorned in an en suite.

[TheElementsSong]

I hate this sort of thing! We marketed our house as 3 bedrooms + study because, yes, we have 3 (proper) double bedrooms and the study is IMO too small to fit a single bed. Now we are house hunting, it looks like 90% of the houses on RM have a "small bedroom" barely larger than our study!

[CocktailQueen]

You could just fill the room with a mattress and make the entire room a bed. FFS!!

[PassiveAgressiveQueen]

no room for clothes but an extra shower and loo, seen it myself, damn stupid.

[TheGreenNinja]

I had this argument with an estate agent. Viewed a stunning house, would have been absolutely ideal except it was marketed as a 4-bed house (v. New so no measurements on floor plan) and I measured the 4th bedroom and it wasn't even 6" in either dimension so couldn't have fit a bed in it. We needed 4 bedrooms and he was arguing it'd be ideal as a study - well maybe but then don't say it's a bedroom and waste the time of people who need it as a bedroom! He did concede in the end that almost everyone who'd viewed it had complained about the room being described as a bedroom. Numpties.

[TFPsa]

Imo:

'Double' - room for double bed plus standard minimal bedroom furniture, e.g. wardrobe plus chest of drawers.

'Generous double' - as above plus room for a dressing table or desk or something.