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?

Mine's a bike room - I keep my bikes and associated paraphernalia in it (don't have a garage/shed so this is the closest thing!).

Kids cinema/TV room? Or laundry room

One wall is bookshelves and there is a desk on the opposite wall.

Library/study/office?

Ours was a sewing room. Then became more of a gym exercise room (mat, weights, spin bike) for me to yoga in.
This year we turned it back into a kit room which it used to be pre-kids because we have a lot of outdoor/sports kit. So there's a huge boot rack for trainers and walking boots, a large freestanding clothes rail for wetsuits, life vests, ski gear and waterproofs, a coatstand for helmets and running jackets, stacking boxes for gloves, hats, wetsuit boots, sleeping bags, tents etc. The spin bike still just about fits and gets used in there, but the sewing machine has been stored away poor thing (probably emblematic of my sewing skills that it is broken and dusty). It's actually really helpful for keeping downstairs decluttered having all the kit in there.

Turn BIL bedroom into playroom with sofa bed and move everything but bed and clothes out of the box room. When kids too old for playroom move your son into the bigger bedroom.

I’m presuming you don’t have stuff that is unwanted in any other room in the house? If you do that might give you your answer.

I agree with @CatalogueUniverse to leave just the bed in the box room and make the soon to be vacated room a playroom, certainly while the D.C. are small and have 'big' toys.

Reevaluate when they become teens

YY to Ikea bed/storage solutions. Their high bed with desk underneath is my all time favourite.

I don’t have a box room as such but we turned one decent sized bedroom into two smaller rooms for my sons. One is now a 7 feet by 11 feet 6 ins walk in closet.
Unfortunately our spare room ( 12 by 11’6 ins)has a lot of my stuff in as well...boxes of homeopathic remdies, radionic machines, crystals, small printer for printing out energy patterns, spare pendulums, herbs , my paints and paintings clothes, books( in bookcases thankfully)..most stacked on the futon. I’m wondering about giving up on it as a spare room and just buying more storage like the closet

Then I look at it and think ..nah!

Very interesting what is kept in some of the small rooms.

Turn it into a chill zone or study room for the kids when they get older.

Ours was a bedroom for DS. It's bigger than yours and has two big bay windows, one on the front, one at the side, which improves on the total floor area. Side window faces east so quite bright too.

We moved DS to the back double bedroom and intended the box room to be a study, but currently it's the Room of Doom and everything surplus that we need to store gets shoved in there . One day I will get rid of all DH's crap and it will be glorious, a study/office/library to be proud of. One day...

Study for dd1

Its DD's bedroom, but it's a bit bigger, 9×8.

We are looking at new houses and the main criteria we are looking for is a proper 3rd bedroom do DD can have a double bed.