What purpose does your box room serve?

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Our box room is a little over 6ft square, and not really much use as it's so small. At the moment, toddler DS is crammed in there until BIL moves out, and then he will have a bigger bedroom. So when DS has vacated this tiny space, what do we do with it? We have a 5 bed house and we already turned one of them into a dressing room (DH's job means he often comes and goes in the middle of the night, especially in winter. The dressing room means he doesn't disturb me when he's getting ready for work or bed). We have easy access to the loft so don't really need it as storage, we've no need for an office/study either.

Before DS came along, it used to be a toy room for DD but just playing with one thing completely filled the floor space and you couldn't move in there. DH wants to turn it back into a toy room for both kids but it was ridiculous with the toys for one child, never mind two!

So inspire me, what do you do with your tiny box room?

Ours is used as toddler DDs bedroom, but it's a bit bigger than yours- maybe 8x8 or 9x9 feet.

In your situation I would probably use it as the dressing room, and convert the current dressing room (which is presumably bigger) into a guest room/office. I know you say you don't need an office, but it can be handy just for life admin stuff.

I don't think turning it into the dressing room would work, we have a big triple wardrobe, chest of drawers and a dressing table in there. The room is just not big enough!

Mine is DS2’s bedroom (he’s 18).

Library
Craft room
Sex room!
Gaming room
Laundry room

It's my bedroom

Definitely sex dungeon. Six feet square is just big enough.

We have a rail in ours and shelving to keep stuff for hobbies - martial arts kit, motorbiking, horse riding gear, that sort of thing. We also have the washing machine in there, which freed up a very important hole in the kitchen for a dishwasher.

DW's sewing and craft room, also contains the ironing board and at some point my next gaming build.

You have to walk through ours to get to the bathroom so no good as a sex dungeon.

As we've done each room up it's become the dumping ground for all the random shit we don't want cluttering our new space. Now it's the only room left and there's nowhere to shovel the shit to

Hygiene is vital to any sex dungeon! Add a pair of (wipe down) curtains to hide the manacles and sex swing from people innocently going to the bathroom, perfect.

Our not-a-sex-dungeon-oh-well box room is also the only one we haven't done up. Doesn't really seem much point.

Our last house had 5 bedrooms.......did you buy it from us?

The box room was used as a laundry room as it had the tumble dryer/heated airer/laundry baskets in in it.
Also we had a ginormous mirror in this room so me & dc would use it to dry/straighten/curl our hair.

If you did buy our house I hope you're enjoying the wood burning stove. I miss it well apart from the dust. Though am in the process of getting a wood burner in our new house. Hopefully we won't get as much dust as this time we're nowhere near a quarry,

Storage for suitcases etc

I would love an upstairs laundry room, so I’d do that.

I had one a similar size and it was used for storing stuff DD1 had outgrown until DD2 needed it.

Now I would use it as a library with bookcases lamp and arm chair where no one else could enter...

We don’t have a box room but if I did I would put a sofa bed in there and let the kids use it as as a toy room / den until they are bigger and have friends to sleepover . Extra beds are always handy when the kids are growing up .
Are you sure it’s 6x6 ? That is very small .

Can I have one of your spare rooms please?

Mine is a bit bigger than that - maybe 9 x 7. It has my desk, a bookcase, my rowing machine and one of these.

Knock the wall out and make another room bigger.

My spare room is used for storage and drying clothes if you don't have a utility room you could use it for that

Our box room is 11yo DD's bedroom. There is space for a single loft bed with desk and chest of drawers underneath and a wardrobe to the side. Ikea is fantastic for furnishing and maximising the use of tiny spaces.

We've just moved so ours is currently full of boxes! Long term we're going to put bookcases and a comfy chair in there and turn it into a reading nook/study.

Fill it with beanbags and let the children hang out there.

We have a 5 bed house with a box room. We knocked the wall out so that the box room became a large space that was part of the upstairs landing, not a seperate room (So currently a 4 bed house).

In that landing space we have a sofa, TV on the wall and an Xbox. It's the kids (teens and preteens) gaming area. There's also a desk under the TV for homework/laptop. Shelving contains all out office-type equipment.

I like that gaming is done in an open space in the house, not shut away in bedrooms.

Ours is about 7ftx6ft and is DS2 bedroom and will be until he moves out.

Home office

A small gym? Put things like a bike, elliptical trainer, weights etc in there?