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If you had three spare bedrooms in your house...

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TheBitterBoy · 19/02/2022 16:25

What would you use them for?

It looks like we may be in this situation someday soon due to a change of circumstances. What would you use these rooms for in an ideal world?

OP posts:

Lightning020 · 19/02/2022 19:37

I would have a guest room a reading room and a piano room.

Hotelhelp · 19/02/2022 19:39

Are the people who are suggesting fostering ok?

OP posts she has extra space but that doesn’t necessarily mean she has the time, patience, love etc to give to a foster child. She could be a convicted criminal for all we know (I’m sure you aren’t OP).

But come on people!

Everydaydayisaschoolday · 19/02/2022 19:39

Beware of using rooms as dumping grounds. My mum did this for years and ended up in a 4 bedroom house (with garage, attics, outhouses etc) completely filled with stuff she had acquired, dumped and forgotten. She lived between the kitchen and her bedroom as she couldn't walk into the other rooms. It took her brother and I months to clear it when she moved out.

She now has a beautiful, brand new purpose built one bedroom flat in an over 60s development and is gradually filling that up with dumped junk too. For instance she recently bought an A3 cutting mat - completely ignoring the fact that she hasn't got a table to put it on ( I suggested buying a small dining table but she doesn't want one).

UserWithNoUserName · 19/02/2022 19:39

I'd have a library room/study, a decent spare for guests, and I'm not sure about the third! Maybe a storage room.

LaPufalina · 19/02/2022 19:40

I'd love to foster when our kids are grown/flown, only tiny atm though. We have five bedrooms and a study which can be used for guests' kids with an air bed. Our DDs share a bedroom and DH and I don't, so that's one spare down the other two are a play room (with a sofa bed) and a guest room/tack room.

GTAlogic · 19/02/2022 19:41

A photography studio, a sewing room and a library or writing room.

AliMonkey · 19/02/2022 19:41

One is our guest room (but also has a very large wardrobe and boxes under the bed so we store stuff in there as well), one is an office and one has a single bed, stuff waiting to go the charity shop, drawers containing bedding, moroe boxes under the bed, the washing basket, the ironing pile - basically general dumping ground but can use as guest room if we have more than two people staying. We have talked about making it into a second office since we've both been mostly WFH but don't want to lose the bed and it's not big enough for even sofa bed and desk.

If I had free rein, I'd make it into a gaming room with a sofa bed and turn the room downstairs (which is bigger) into a home gym.

Crimesean · 19/02/2022 19:43

We're in that situation - we intended to have a few kids, infertility meant we are lucky and blessed with one.

We love our home and don't want to move, but we also have one large and one very large bedroom on the 2nd floor we don't use, as well as an extra bathroom. Currently we use it occasionally for guests. Maybe when DS is older we'll do Air BnB. The other bedroom is an office.

I'm watching this thread with interest in case anyone has a genius idea!

TheTurn0fTheScrew · 19/02/2022 19:44

Library, guest bedroom, music room. I'd have room for a harp! I cannot play the harp, but still.

Orangesox · 19/02/2022 19:45

Our spare rooms are as follows:

Guest bedroom
Dressing Room
2 x home office

If we had another room / I no longer needed my office, I’d have a library

WheresTheLambSauce · 19/02/2022 19:47

One would be a library/study
One would be a gaming room (if I had enough money for three spare bedrooms, I'd absolutely get a full geeky gaming set-up )
And the last one would be a spare bedroom, preferably with enough space to have a second lounge for guests if needed.

TheFairyCaravan · 19/02/2022 19:48

This is what we’re going to have in our new house so we’re having an office with a chair bed in just incase of an extra guest, a dressing room and a permanently ready set up spare double bedroom.

WheresTheLambSauce · 19/02/2022 19:49

Oooh, but a music room would be lovely too... -proceeds to stress over the fine details of an imaginary life-

Crimesean · 19/02/2022 19:51

@LaPufalina

the other two are a play room (with a sofa bed) and a guest room/tack room.

That sounds like a great plan actually! We couldn't foster now, I don't think DS would be happy, but once he's at university it's definitely something I'd consider. I'm worried I'd get too attached though, I au-paired for a year and was heartbroken after I left.

Sd352 · 19/02/2022 19:54

We have this because we don’t have kids yet. One is my husband’s study, one (with en suite shower room) is my office and a guest room and the third is a dumping ground in need of a good clear out (oops).

Cherrysoup · 19/02/2022 19:54

Guest room.
Study.
Spare room for when someone is snoring.

StampOnTheGround · 19/02/2022 19:54

Study, wardrobe room and cinema room

GnomeOrMistAndIceGuy · 19/02/2022 19:58

We're moving into a house soon and will be in this situation - 2 spare bedrooms and a downstairs "family room." Bedrooms will be a gaming room and and office. The family room will is yet to be assigned. Exercise room, perhaps?

BOOTS52 · 19/02/2022 19:59

I would have one for my son's recording studio as he has all his stuff in his bedroom but lucky he has a fair bit of space. I would have one for a relaxed reading room/music room, would buy myself an old record player and start collecting records again, something about putting the needle on the record, brings back memories of my teenage years. If you are into arts/crafts this would also be a good time to have your own space and time for yourself. Sounds lovely to have that space now. Enjoy it.

BOOTS52 · 19/02/2022 20:00

Someone has posted about a cinema room, great idea a big projector on the wall and lots of proper comfy chairs with leg rests and a popcorn machine in the corner all retro.

delilahbucket · 19/02/2022 20:01

We do. We have a dressing room as the smallest. A laundry room and dumping ground. The third was my workroom but is now being converted into DS's bedroom as it is bigger than his current one, and then his old room will become a guest room.

Kezzie200 · 19/02/2022 20:02

We have two.

One is a study now and as I wfh 2 days a week that's a dedicated space now. The bed is still there, as we built a fixed one, but its only likely to be used in rare circumstances.

Then we have a guest room. In many ways it's our nicest room in that it's newly refurbished throughout and has a lovely sea view and new king size bed. It's a bit smaller than ours though, and after 30 years seems odd to change. So that's always ready if someone (usually one of our 2 children and their partners) comes to stay.

It will also be used if we ever go on holiday again for somewhere to leave our suitcase open for packing as we do it. Luxury!

Lostpainter · 19/02/2022 20:02

We have two home offices as DH and I both wfh. Other is a guest room but it’s a huge room so also has wardrobes in it as well as a TV which occasionally we use if we want to watch our own thing in the evenings.

Ejk1990 · 19/02/2022 20:04

We are 2 people in a 4 bed.

My office/craft room
Husbands office/tv room/spare room
Laundry (will be a nursery in future hopefully)

VitalsStable · 19/02/2022 20:09

We are in that position after one DC moved out. We have a yoga/peloton room, one of the children has a Lego/art room and we have a room with absolutely nothing in it.

It has made me think how ridiculous it would be to live in a mansion.

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