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)!

6 bed (5 usable at the moment, the 6th could be camped in. Two are usually home offices.) 3 bathrooms, 2 reception rooms + dining room. We are very fortunate, and also have large heating bills 😂 Northern, Victorian, half an acre of garden.

We have me & DH, 2 teen DS, two extra couples staying for Christmas.

I could house at least 8 adults (beside me and dd) if my dd shared my room. If you add Kids into the mix then around 12. But I live in the US and bought my house when the housing market was in crises.

I’ve never had that many people stay over and don’t plan to, I would lose my mind 😂

I live in a terrace three bed. The house has a converted loft and extension out back but us still only 1200sqft. Nice part of Zone 3 (houses are about £1.2m). I'd say our house is a fairly common size - there are bigger, but worth that much more.
For big you have to go to the States - houses around here are HUGE.

Ours is 4 bed but the kids have double beds. At Xmas we used to have both kids in with us on air beds, which left three double beds and a double sofa bed in the back room, available for guests. So yes, we can accommodate 8 adult guests without losing our lounge. Plus extra kids on air beds in their parents rooms if necessary.

I live in a palace

Big to me means more housework so no we don't by choice

I grew up in a fairly big house (6 bedrooms, four reception rooms) so we always seemed to host for the family. I think our record was 18 guests staying one Christmas, which was a bit like bedroom jenga. We just turned the biggest bedroom into the single girls dormitory with five of us in there, and slotted everyone else in wherever they'd fit!
Happily these days I'm in a 2 bed with a box room, so can never have overnight guests. Oh dear. Oh no. How sad.

We're lucky enough to have a nice big house and plenty of space but as a family of introverts we have zero desire to host. In fact, it'd be my idea of hell and I couldn't cope. So it's just me, DH, our DS who still lives at home, plus the two older adult DSes who come home for Christmas. That's all, and that's how we like it.

I spend all my spare cash on fabulous holidays instead. :)

Me too. I live in a modest apartment. Solo mum, one son.

I can look at big fabulous houses on tv programmes lol.

My last house, in London, was a 2 up,2 down mid terrace and back in the day for Christmas would host up to four others - my parents, his kids, at Christmas. A good sized kitchen extension and a loo squeezed into the understairs cupboard and use of a sofa bed allowed for that

Now we have a five bedroom , 3 bathroom, 2/3 reception house, which had a tiny kitchen/diner - like sure sleep 10 comfortably but can only fit 4 in the kitchen?? so that had to be extended - and its like a ruddy hotel here at times!!

The whole extended family treat this as their holiday home - ANOB close to the sea surrounded by countryside. This past summer I was turning bedrooms around near on weekly .

Whilst I love this house and where it is, thoughts are turning towards a nice modern 2 bed bungalow

We have five bedrooms but DD lives in the loft and has a bedroom and a lounge. The small bedroom is my study so we have one double bedroom for guests which is used 3/4 times a year. When DD was at uni, the two rooms in the loft could sleep 3 people and it often felt as if we were running a B n B but guests had to make their own beds and bring the dirty sheets and towels down when they left. Unfortunately we live on what has become over the years a very busy road so the house isn’t worth as much as it might have been.

I live in a 4 bedroom house but all the rooms are taken up by me and the kids. Never have anyone to sleep over.

2bed flat in a big city. It's tiny. We don't have people to stay.

@MargaritaThyme exactly! Merry Christmas everybody.

My house has 4 bedrooms. We have 4 guests staying for 3 nights. Dsis and Dbil in spare room, 2 nephews and ds on camp beds in one children's bedroom, dd in the other, dh and I in our bedroom.

We have 6 double bedrooms.4 kids.

Hosting 10 this year. My dad is 80 and driving me mad, making lewd comments about women on TV and double entendres all day long if anyone says anything, but going all po faced when we played a "cards against humanity" type game which he declared not funny disgusting and "American" and hasn't shut up ranting about since. I am starting to wonder if he has some kind of frontal lobe dementia...

Looking at the‘normal’ house pictures, most people seem to live in huge houses. Mine is a post war 3 bed semi, larger than average kitchen. One bedroom is the study, then the ‘spare’ has become mine, all my clothes are in there, I often migrate there if I can’t sleep.

Depends on the guests and how much “luxury “ they need. We have friends from abroad and their 3 kids coming over to stay with us for a week every year. But they just sleep on air mattresses in the attic. The kids sleep in the bedrooms of my kids on airmatrasses. We don’t have a big house or spare bedrooms. But we have loads of fun together.

2 bed flat, the second bedroom is my study/office as I work from home. I've been toying with the idea of getting a spare bed but that would mean I have a bed for visitors and people might actually stay over, I also don't like the thought of working from my 'spare room'.

2 bedroom council flat, open plan living/diner/kitchen. I never host meals, I just don't have the room and I have no spare bedroom for anyone to stay over. Happily have people round for drinks but definitely not a Christmas dinner.

@TheThingIsYeah I have always lived in London and my experience of housing is quite different. There are inner city council estates with tower blocks, mixed with Edwardian terraces. I have spent most of my life in Edwardian terraces of varying sizes.
The 1930s semis are in the outer/fringe areas of London with a few Council estates of the same era. Of course a lot of the Council property is now privately owned, due to Thatcher.
It always shocks me on property threads here when people say they will only consider a detached house or would not tolerate a shared drive. I am in one of the cheaper parts of London but that would mean well over £1 million.

It’s less Nigella and more Duvet know it’s Christmas round ours. Blow up beds and bring your own bedding & towels if you’re driving, people getting trodden on when others go the loo in the night and no long showers (we do have 2 loos). Xmas dinner (everyone contributes) is main course and pudding due to kitchen constraints & if anyone else joins the family it will become a buffet bc we are at the limit of sitting around tables (already use breakfast bar where you can shout through to dining table at best).
How easy it must be to host if you’ve spare rooms and en suites and a massive dining room! I don’t care though: we live too far away from each other and all the adults like a drink and we love each other in the main. No one seeks offence and we make it up if we get annoyed with each other. A couple of nights is enough though!