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To think this house IS big enough

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Coconutsandpalmtree · 23/06/2024 11:28

For 3 kids and wfh (needing an office)

im not sure it is, but surely it should be and I’m missing a trick as to how we can make it work, DH and I have decided we’d like another child.

it’s a new house (6yrs now) so I took a pic of the floor plan from the developers. It’s pretty generic but it’s tight on space.

the front double is our bedroom, built in wardrobe and the space by the ensuite is a chest of drawers that we really need.

the smaller back ‘double’ (on floor plan) is more a single tbh, but that’s my eldests room. Front single youngest. Other double is a guest room/ office.

we really need an office for wfh. There’s no place for stud walls due to the windows.

we do have a garage though and a classic new build garden aka small.

what do you think? Can another kid fit here?

yabu- no way
yanbu- yes with some outside the box thinking that I’ll share :)

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commonground · 23/06/2024 11:38

The bedrooms are too small for sharing, so you need to free one up.

Options:

You put a small office space in the garage (stud wall?)

You put a small fitted office in the cubbyhole by the downstairs loo (fold up desk, clever shelving). If you can take the wall down there so it is like a dogleg corner of the living room, that would work.

You don't have a third kid.

You move.

jeaux90 · 23/06/2024 11:37

Honestly no.

Also you need more downstairs space as kids get older, they want friends over or sharing an Xbox etc, effectively you need two lounges with teens.

ZombieBoob · 23/06/2024 11:36

Would either child like sharing? What I would do is either office in garage or a garden room and have them all in singles

Coconutsandpalmtree · 23/06/2024 11:35

macaroniandcheeze · 23/06/2024 11:32

Can the garage be turned into the office or a bedroom for an older (teen) child?

Having a guest room/ office upstairs is just taking up a perfectly usable bedroom. Make an office area downstairs?

out of interest what is that tiny space next to the downstairs loo?

Both those small boxes off spaces are storage.

i just don’t know where downstairs though, living room is less than ideal as post school / mat leave that’s where we all are, you know

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Procrastinates · 23/06/2024 11:34

Technically yes you'd all fit although the two youngest or two oldest (depending on genders and gap etc) would have to share after baby left your room. However it doesn't look like you have a lot of storage space so it probably feels quite squashed already.

BusyCM · 23/06/2024 11:33

Small single is home office, two childcare share the double and other child in the bigger single.

macaroniandcheeze · 23/06/2024 11:32

Can the garage be turned into the office or a bedroom for an older (teen) child?

Having a guest room/ office upstairs is just taking up a perfectly usable bedroom. Make an office area downstairs?

out of interest what is that tiny space next to the downstairs loo?

Pipecleanerrevival · 23/06/2024 11:32

I mean you’d all fit with 2 kids sharing but there is no storage and it looks really tight. Depends how much stuff you and the kids have.

Coconutsandpalmtree · 23/06/2024 11:28

Floor plan

To think this house IS big enough
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