What would you use 'extra' rooms for in your house?

A dedicated present wrapping room with everything permanently out on tables and wall racks with a huge assortment of wrapping supplies.

Ideal house, Slightly sensible option...

Downstairs:

Big open plan kitchen diner
Livingroom
Play room
Study
Utility room
Toilet
Garage

Upstairs
5 bedrooms
At least 2 bathrooms (Ideally 2 en suites and 1 main bath)

Now money is no object:
Gym
Cinema / games room (think pool table, bar party room)
Pool
Sauna
Laundry room
Library

Sauna 😁

Husband and I both have a separate office/dressing room. Husband also has a gaming space in his office. I have a comfy love seat for reading but no tv.

Downstairs I’ve just turned our guest room into a hangout space for the kids (eldest just turned 13) - sofa bed, storage, TV, games console style thing.

I was happy with my extra rooms, but now I want to add an orangerie and a games room.

I am a single person and am lucky enough to have a 4 bedroom house. I use them for:

master bedroom
office
dressing room / clothes storage
And the last bedroom I rent out for some extra income

Actually if we are talking totally unrealistically; I’d love to have a 100 seat theatre.
My am-drams group is going to be left high and dry before not too long. If we could have our own space to rehearsal with a proper stage and it’s all mine, that would be amazing!

When my husband and I bought our current house we were planning to have 3 or 4 children (still hope to). So we bought a larger house than we needed as a couple.

Currently we have one toddler and multiple extra rooms.

This gives us

• a library (we had to have the shelving built in)
• A play area for my toddlers toys to be mostly out of sight when not in use
• Guest bedroom
• Study

We then have bedrooms for my husband and I, one bedroom for just me I used when pregnant and uncomfortable or when having a difficult night with the baby, and a nursery for our 1 year old.

We have an extra room downstairs, it’s used as the grandkids toy room and it has a sofa bed and a tv in there with a huge built in wall cupboard with bookshelves so it’s multi purpose

We have a large sunroom (40ft x 15ft) attached to the kitchen/dining room and it’s my favourite room, second to my sewing room.

It has two sets of French doors and plenty of windows and a roof light in the centre. Because it’s got triple glazing and is well insulated inc. the roof, we use it all yr round. It doesn’t get too hot either, although I live in Ireland and we rarely get heat waves here. 😂

Our previous house had 3 ‘reception rooms’ we used one for a lounge, one a dining room and one for a snug for the kids - sofa/TV books etc. I miss that house!

We’re moving from a tiny house (2 rooms downstairs, 2 bedrooms and bathroom) to a pretty big one (praying all goes ahead smoothly due to exchange next week!)

We will have an ‘extra’ room downstairs which we plan to use as a playroom - or at least just to store all DC’s stuff. There’s a room to be DH’s office/ study too. 4 beds upstairs - one of which I will make into my office but would like to give it a bit of a library/ reading corner/ cosy type vibe too. Just my space - in fact I might continue to work from the kitchen table as I currently do and make the ‘office room’ just a bit of space for me!

Once we’re in and have hopefully started to build up savings again DH is planning to convert the garage into some kind of separate lounge/ man cave situation but I am reluctant to give up the storage having gone so long without any!

I have 2 spare bedrooms. One is now a gym and the other is a sewing room.

Overnight guests are not encouraged.

We have a large kitchen which also has a lounge and dining area plus 3 other downstairs rooms. One is the main lounge, one a study and the third was a playroom for many years but I’m slowly reclaiming it as a dining room. The third room is hardly ever used now so will eventually incorporate it into the kitchen.

Absolutely a library room. If it was big enough id include a dinning table, to eat at or stack books on

Just put an offer in on a house with an open plan lounge/ kitchen/diner plus three other downstairs rooms and a good size garage. Thinking 1 room as library/ study/spare room (Murphy bed), 1 room as a grown up lounge/snug (with office setup that can hideaway), 1 room as playroom. Then use the garage as utility and gym as well as outside stuff storage.
So excited after our 2 up 2 down terrace with stuff everywhere.

Same as you library , cinema and dressing room.

Utility/laundry room
Craft room

I want a study/library. I used to have one but now its DD's bedroom. But perhaps in a few years DS will no longer use the playroom (that is connected to the lounge but would have been a separate room once upon a time) and we can put the wall back and put a door in and then I'll have an extra room to turn into a study/library. And a summer bedroom, because it is way too hot upstairs in the summer.

We have two extra rooms downstairs - one is the library/study, the other the playroom (actually toy storage because DS never actually plays in there, he prefers to play in the sitting room). Then upstairs we have a guest bedroom and an all purpose dumping room where we dry laundry, do ironing, have lots more bookshelves and a table where I work sometimes. Also if we have extra guests we put them up in there on a pullout bed.

A craft sewing room to be able to leave my sewing machine out. A library I could have my fiction in alphabetical order and my information books in categories sad really.

Downstairs we had 3:spare rooms so had, a cinema (never actually used) a play room and an office. Upstairs one spare room as a spare bedroom

I've got 4 kids, one is 19 and autistic so probably won't move out anytime soon so id make a nice big bedroom for him so my younger ones could have their own rooms

My daughter was born with gross neurological damage and before sensory rooms were a thing. On the advice from Sense,I made her a sensory area out of an old tea chest and would put her in there as a tiny baby, it was the only time she felt comforted (and I got a break!) . Fast forward a good few years and I gave up my bedroom for a wonderful sensory room that we can both chill in, it's amazing.

When DCs were all living at home I thought that when they started to leave home we would downsize.

Now only DS still living with us. Instead of downsizing we extended.

We now have

• dressing room
• office
• sewing room/guest room
• snug/airbrushing room

In my fantasy home I would have a warm but airy sewing room in the garden complete with small kitchen, toilet, changing room.

DH would have a workshop with separate areas for motorbike restoration and woodworking.