Would this count as a box room / very small room?

[lousong]

Can’t visualise and need to know if it would be too small as a spare / for one DC. Measurements are 2.3 x 3.2m, I think that’s 7.5 feet by 10.5 feet.

That’s fine for a child or even for a spare room. We’ve got a double bed in our smallest room (7x12’) for guests - it’s a bit of a squeeze but fine for a couple of nights.

I think that counts as a single bedroom rather than box room, my sons room is a similar size and fits comfortably a large wardrobe, single bed and desk.

That's bigger than DSs room. He has a cabin bed and I've decorated the room nicely, he loves it.

That doesn't seem too small. My son's bedroom is 1.9mx3.2 so is smaller than that but doesn't feel too cramped. My neighbours have a small double in the same size room as my son's

I had a much smaller room than that as a child, I loved it! You can get a smaller single bed if you’re worried about space but that size is larger than a lot of box rooms.

That's a single bedroom, imo.
Very random door/window/radiator positioning could make it gard to furnish, but all walls are long enough for a bed.

Thanks everyone! At a push do you think two DC could share that space? Just looking at houses and the house’s future potential.

Great to know thank you

Maybe with bunk beds?

a standard single bed is 3' x 6'6" so either a single or bunks depending on where door is you might get two singles in but not a lot else just draw a scale drawing and put in wndow door position and see what will fit. it is definitely a single bedroom not a box room

Technically speaking, I think a box room doesn't have windows, so the smallest room with a window would be a "single " room or if it's too small for even a dingle bed, then a "study" or storeroom.
But most people including me would describe a small bedroom as box room.

7'x10' is certainly big enough to use as a bedroom.

3.7 x 1.8 is our smallest room and we have one DC in it. It is very small but fits a IKEA Kura bed so space underneath, a small chest of drawers a small wardrobe and small desk.

It depends on the layout of the room, but bunk beds on the 7.5’ wall would leave a space of around 7.5’ x 7.5’ which would easily accommodate some storage and maybe a small desk, etc.

The Environmental health legislation says that less than 50 square feet is a box room and therefore not counted as a bedroom for the purpose of deciding if a property is statutorily overcrowded. It's not about whether a bed can be fitted as clearly owners can use a house as they wish, but is about protecting tenants. Probably doesn't answer your question, but might be interesting to know.

We had bunk beds in the same size room at our last house, but we were limited to a shorty sized one because of a chimney breast we didn’t know was there (hidden in a fitted wardrobe when we viewed) as pp said it does depend on where windows and doors are.
We had bunk beds, chest of drawers and single wardrobe plus toy boxes.

Thanks!

the room is 78 sq ft so 50% bigger than min size for bedroom at 50 sq ft quoted above

It's a legal bedroom (my 5'9" by 8' office is a legal bedroom!). Tight, but ok for a child.

Bunk beds are the way to go.

It's a decent sized single.

My parents had a 'box room' in the house we lived in when I was a child that was used as a storage room and it had a dormer window. It was an awkward space, it was partly over the stairs and so there was a section of the floor that was sloping and the roof was sloping as well. Dad had built slatted shelves over that section for storing things. Don't think you could actually fit a bed in the room but I loved it as a child, it was an exciting extra room! So I think 'box room' is more about size than windows.

But what do you do while they are too little for bunk beds?

you can get very low bunk beds where the bottom bunk is effectively on the fllor but maybe when youngest is too big for a cot and ready for a bed the older one is old enough to be on the top bunk of one of these type
also a carpenter maybe able to make you built in beds along the 10' wall as 2 x 5' long beds which will keep you going until they are about 8 anyway by which time they can be in standard bunks

Definitely a normal-ish single bedroom.

DS has been looking at uni accommodation, and most rooms in halls are about 2.5m x 3.5m, room for with bed, desk. wardrobe, maybe a chest of drawers / sink etc

@lousong how old are they? I've seen the slats being taken out of the bottom bunk and a cot popped into the space. A decent sized cot could work until 3ish.