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

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LemonSqueezy0 · 16/07/2025 06:56

If your house had a big kitchen, living room and a seperate dining room what would you use the other rooms for?

In a dreamland, what would make you happy, and do you think your partner or family would agree?

For me I think I would love a library room. Comfy sofa, various throws, loads of books with a ladder that attaches to the bookshelves.. I also quite like the idea of a cinema room, but that feels like something we'd use less often, especially with how big the normal televisions are now. That just feels like another living room to me...

What would you do, if you had the space?

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Jumpthewaves · 16/07/2025 07:20

I'd want a library room too, with a massive comfy rocking chair. I've a bookshelf I'm the spare room, bit its not quite the same.

snemrose · 16/07/2025 07:20

Library
wrapping room/craft room
gym
general storage room (tool box so I don’t have to keep going out to the shed, food/washing powder/loo rolls etc that I buy in bulk)

wandawaves · 16/07/2025 07:20

Oooh in my dreamland I have several extra rooms.

Gym definitely for me and kids.
Office for me.
Cinema room for kids.
Some kind of big teenage hangout room where they can be away from me with their noisy friends.
One of my kids used to want a music room, not sure if he still does.
A craft room for me would be nice.
Ooh and a library!

Looks like I need a big house 😆

Cheeseplantandcrackers · 16/07/2025 07:20

We have an office, a junk room/gym and our dogs have their own room.

Children have all grown. We have one guest room as the grandchildren regularly but other than that we wanted to make use of our space.

HarperValley · 16/07/2025 07:18

Home gym for sure, but also love the idea of a craft room suggested above.

Xanadu58 · 16/07/2025 07:16

Guest room
Home gym
Dressing room

Kitchenbattle · 16/07/2025 07:16

5bedrooms but we only need 3 so the other two are office (for me) and library/mancave for DP.

downstairs we have living room, kitchen/dining and then a sun room.

Missey85 · 16/07/2025 07:16

Id love a room to turn into a library 😊

thinklagoon · 16/07/2025 07:15

Gift-wrapping room. Mud room. Flower-arranging/potting shed room with access to garden. Scullery. Laundry. In/out pool room.

In reality we have a playroom that I’m gradually nudging from toy pit to library.

Confusedformer · 16/07/2025 07:13

W had a playroom that became a kids sitting room as they got older. I’m eyeing it up as a gym now!

Wilfrida1 · 16/07/2025 07:00

A craft room. I could leave projects out on a table, close the door on them and know they would be left undisturbed. No more clearing off the dining room table so we can eat, no more time spent setting up and clearing away. And peace!

Amba1998 · 16/07/2025 07:00

Downstairs we have playroom.

upstairs we have dressing room
and then a small office

44PumpLane · 16/07/2025 06:59

We have an extra room downstairs and use it as the kids playroom.

We have an office space on the middle floor and a room shaped landing space on the top floor that's a bit of a no man's land but used by the kids for their stuff.

Ideally when the kids are a bit older I'd probably like the playroom to become kids hang out space.