Do lots of MNers live in big houses?

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Just curious as there are quite a few posters having people staying over Christmas.

Here it's just me and DH in a 3 bed semi so plenty of room for just us but only suitable for 1/2 guests in the spare room (box room is my office).

I live in Dublin (suburbs) and I always envisage Londoners living in the fabulous spacious houses from Outnumbered and Motherland (I know of course this is not the case)!

We have a 7 bedroom Motherland Victorian semi. It’s huge and wonderful and as it’s in the back end of Wales, it cost less than a two bedroom house in the village where my friend lives in Sussex.

That sounds wonderful - my dream house 🙂

I'd say ours is normal, verging on the small side. It's a 4 bed townhouse, so we have tons of living space over two floors, but then the bedrooms are all quite small. We could have a couple stay as we have a spare day bed that pulls out into a double, but it would require moving copious piles of laundry and general shite out of the spare room, and I don't know where else I'd put it! DH wants to move as there's bigger 4 beds locally, but I love this house, and we have a relatively small mortgage so wouldn't want to extend that massively.

Detached big 4 bed with large garden and have two relatives staying for 4 nights, plus DS20 and DD17, DH and I. One relly in spare room and 1 in playroom.

I find it hard as it’s for so long but neither relly has anywhere else they can go. Neither help very much so it’s pretty relentless.

We (family of four, opposite sex DC) live in a small 3 bed terrace. It's fine when it's just us, but a challenge with visitors. We have MIL and FIL arriving tonight, but they're staying in a hotel as we physically can't fit them in - even if we gave them our bed, there isn't sufficient floor space for an air bed for us, and the DC have a box room each.

My DM will join us for lunch tomorrow, and we can just about squeeze 5 round our dining table, so DH and I will eat at the kitchen island.

So no big house here!

not me. its tough to build big houses out of gingerbread. wouldn't be structurally sound.

My household is seven adults so scaling up your house to have similar levels of “space”we’d have 10 bedrooms and three living rooms. We don’t have anything like that sort of space.

We have a 2 bed flat, myself, DH and DD. If anyone wants to stay they're on the couch or airbed unless DD likes them enough to give her room up, then she's on the couch lol.

Its me and dd. We live in a detached 4 bed house, which was previously a 4 bed but I extended last year.
We have a big living/kitchen area now , a utility room, a cloakroom, 2 bathrooms, a study/ 2nd lounge, and a gym.

I added 4/5 rooms with the extension.

And now this is our forver home.

Ours is a decent size for London -
4 beds (2 double, two single), 2 bathrooms, big knocked-through sitting/dining room. But DP and I have an office each, and DD has a room, so that doesn’t leave a dedicated spare room. Anyone who wants to stay with us will have to put up with the sofa or an airbed in the sitting room.
My parents’ house is also four beds but everything on a tiny scale - terraced workers’ cottage. The Christmases of my childhood were epic - uncle, aunt, cousins, grandparents, all crammed in for days at a time. And only one bathroom. No one minded. We were delighted to see them and then relieved when they left!

5 bed rooms, lounge, kitchen/family room, and games room. But we live about as far north as you can get before Scotland whilst being far enough outside of the nearest city that it's very reasonable. We paid 200k for it as a renovation we think it's worth around 300k at the moment.

3 bed small semi in Hampshire with three children, two cats and a rat (pet). No one is staying here!

We are a 4 bed with two receptions and a kitchen-diner, plus a very small office so guessing we would be medium by your definition.

No. I live in a 2 bed Victorian terrace with DP and my 6 year old.

I earn really well and could swap to a larger house but I'm reluctant to let the "lifestyle creep" happen and pocket my money rather than pay larger bills. I've just took a punt and decided to start my own business so will see how that works out before taking on another bloody mortgage. I wouldn't have been able to do this with a 5 bedroom lifestyle to be paid for. I'd rather be emancipated from a corporate hell hole.

Also, I like having the excuse not to host because I'm an unsociable bastard 😂.

My house only has 3 bedrooms but the rooms are big, especially the two upstairs. We would have 4 bedrooms but the previous owner opened up the other downstairs room to make the lounge run the full width of the house.
What makes it bigger than other 3 bedroom houses is the basement which has a large office, a bedroom-sized store room, boiler room, wet room and sauna. We got lucky with our house because not all houses on our street have a full basement as the depth of the bedrock varies (there are bits of the bedrock sticking up into the basement in one bit)

Not expensive though, less than 80k euros.

I could almost have written this about ours!

In the middle of renovation (for years 🥲) and still one bathroom, but we did the bedrooms, very basically and on a shoe string, when friends from Canada that put us up for ages were coming at short notice. Now, the cheap carpet is worn out and redecoration is needed.
So we can sleep two DSs and DILs, plus DGC and shove the odd fold up chair beds in dressing room, workroom and sitting room, without impinging on living space.

We do live in a big house now but even when we lived in a 3 bed semi we used to have lots of family over. Some of the most memorable moments from when I was younger were us cousins taking over the living room with quilts on the floor, sleeping bags or inflatable mattresses. Trying to stay up later than we were allowed, hiding snacks and generally having a fab time.

6bed, 5bath with 3 reception rooms and dining kitchen. There's four of us living here and it suits us well as we upsized to ensure widowed parent could live with us and have a bed\bath\living space of their own downstairs.

We only ever have my brother and his family stay, so two of the spare bedrooms are pretty much always made up for them in preparation.

We're not home for Christmas dinner this year, but when we are, we have 10 people that are comfortably sat around dining kitchen table and only aforementioned brother & family would ever stay.

My DH worked in The City and we have a seven bed house but I grow up in a 3 bed semi in South London sharing a bedroom with my sister (I also had a brother) which is more typical I would say.

Not me, I live in a two-bed flat. Admittedly it is quite a fancy central London flat with a bedroom balcony and basement swimming pool, but it's pretty small.

Me, DH and 3 DCs in a 3 storey New Build, 3 double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, average garden, in the South of England. We don't have any spare rooms or a dining room, so whenever anyone stays over it's an air bed in the living room

We're in a 5 bedroom, 4 bathroom, 3 reception rooms detached house in 1.5 acres of land. We're in a very rural area so it was cheaper than our 3 bedroom house in north Essex. This year we have No Christmas guests at all! We've had a full house in previous years including people sleeping in one of the lounges on mattresses!

Retired so just the two of us, five bedrooms, three done as ‘real bedrooms’ others with good sofa beds, one used as a computer room and one with hundreds of books, two bathrooms, shower room, loo, utility and pantry, sitting room, dining room, snug, large conservatory, once held 29 for a sit down meal, before the plants became a jungle.
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Perfect for entertaining family and we were looking forward to DS1, his DP and his DS arriving today and rest of family visiting tomorrow but phone call this morning to say DS1 family have COVID. I am massively disappointed.

We're in a 4 bed Victorian terrace on 5 storeys. It's probably a fairly average size house but it feels big to us as we moved from a 2 bed flat. We have 2 guests on the sofabed in the living room. There is spare room on the top floor but they wouldn't manage all the stairs.

I don't think size of house dictates the ability to host guests though. My mum would always insist on loads of guests sleeping over (on fold out guest beds, sleeping on the sofas in the living room, sharing beds) despite us living in a 3 bed flat as a family of 6. She would be horrified at the idea of people forking out for hotel rooms when there was any floor space at all. But PILs would book a hotel room when we lived in a flat, although they could have slept on our sofabed in our living room.

I live in a house large enough for people to stay over, but I grew up in a three bed semi and we'd often have family stay over a Christmas.

Grandad would sleep in my room, I'd be on the floor in my parents room sleeping on 'the biscuit' 😆, DBro would stay in his room as he was too untidy to turf out and my lovely uncle would sleep under the dining table! Then there'd be the daytime guests too, usually about 12 in total. All sat on a combination of garden chairs, dining chairs and kids on the floor.

We have four staying at new year, friends in the spare room, their DC will sleep with our DC wherever they settle! (Teens so less irresponsible than it sounds!)