to think that bedrooms should be big enough to put a bed in

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Just fed up with the number of houses we go to see which are 'three' bedroom by which they mean two bedrooms and another tiny room which is too small for a blooming bed. What is the point. And yes, I know I can look at the floor plan first, but after two years we're desperate. I keep hoping a three bedroom house will have three rooms which are big enough for beds.

londonrach - !lol! I wonder if some of these estate agents can actually hear themselves??! Mind, I lol now. That's what I'll be doing come 2016.

thanks hamiltoes.

Yes, found this frustrating too.

We were looking for a house with two double bedrooms, and one lettings agent got stroppy with me for measuring to check you could fit a double bed in. Another pointed out you could fit a double mattress (and the door wouldn't have opened all the way).

That said, I've often lived in places where you needed to have a double bed up against the wall and don't see the issue with that?

YANBU. When we were looking I was SO frustrated with room sizes, garages that couldn't fit a car, weird parking or no parking. The list was endless.

I agree, the bedrooms in houses seem to get smaller and smaller.

In the house we eventually bought we had to rip out the built in wardrobe to comfortably fit the super king bed in with access down both sides. I was not going to clamber across the bed like a kid. Fortunately this house has good storage in the other bedrooms so it wasn't too awful to lose the wardrobe in the master.

Aside from bedrooms, another annoyance are tiny bathrooms. When I looked at rental properties a few years ago, I viewed a flat in a new-built that was clearly designed for a young couple (which we were at this point) without kids (just too small). Rather than putting one proper bathrooms in it (with a tub and a larger sink), there were two tiny ones, one being on suite. Both had a small shower and a tiny sink. What's the point for a two bedroom to have two bathrooms?

I completely agree

One of my pet hates is a master bedroom with an en suite shoe horned in making the end result a tiny room with barely room for a double bed

Bingbong how many inches are you short of being able to get it in the right way round?

If it very nearly fits you can cut down a DIY pine bed frame quite easily and squidge a normal mattress on top. Our bodge cost £30 for an ebay flatpack bed frame. If more than a few inches short it might be worth considering getting a shorty from eg www.oddsizebeds

Sort of x post with Dodi

I wouldn't rule out all houses that have downstairs bedrooms though - I live in a dormer bungalow which has some bedrooms downstairs but all would fit a double bed plus if I wanted too I could easily extend the upstairs

We saw 1 in october 3 bed the 3rd bedroom (ha) had the stair slope iyswim running under it we actually burst out laughing and asked the estate agent where we could put a single bed he muttered some thing about it being a nursery or office turned scarlet and closed the cupboard bedroom door. Yanbu

master bedroom with an en suite shoe horned in making the end result a tiny room with barely room for a double bed

Couldn't agree more! Uncomfortably poky bathroom and small, ill-proportioned bedroom.

When began this weird obsession with en suite at all costs?

That's a good point Jace. A decent sized downstairs bedroom is really flexible too and doubles as a playroom in the daytime. Depends a lot on age of DC and house layout.

DH and I rapidly concluded when looking at 3 beds that we could only get 3 beds buying a 4 bed house,

It's shit!

YANBU. We're spoilt by our ex -NCB house, built on the same plans as the local council houses, which has 2 double bedrooms, with the master bedroom big enough for a king size, wardrobes and a massive desk. We need to move in a couple of years or so and the boys need separate rooms and so many properties I've seen when I've been scoping areas out have either got a 3rd bedroom that is so small as to be useless, or a master bedroom that's only big enough for a double bed and not much else. Quite often they have 3 toilets, though

And my boys are only a few years off being 6' teenagers, so sawn off beds won't be an option.

Makes me realise how lucky we are we have two largish double bedrooms one with en suite loo/basin and a third which takes a 4 ft bed with room for a wardrobe and desk. We also have a smallish separate dining room off the kitchen. This is well under 200k in Shropshire (a detached bungalow). Surely it is only new builds that have these tiny rooms , what about an older terrace?

We have viewed a house recently where it was situated on a road that has only ever had 2 bed houses on but it was advertised as a 3 bed house.

We had a look as the road is perfectly situated for us and we need a minimum of 3 beds.

On viewing none of the bedrooms were doubles. There were 3 bedrooms but they were literally rooms that will fit a bed in them and nothing else.

The current owners have spent several thousands removing all the walls upstairs and adding that 3rd room, unfortunately it's still up for sale at almost £30,000 more than the nicest 2 bed on the street and has been up for almost 9 months.
No one will buy it at that price as there's nowhere for a double bed to fit. Even singles like a double bed

thegrey, my house is over 150 years old, and I've seen plenty of Victorian houses with little space.

No, it's not just new builds.

Greylady, we've owned 2 60s builds with this problem, and we've seen dozens of 60s and 70s builds with the over stairs cutout.

I'm fairly sure that in our first house the boxroom was never designed as a habitable room. It was 6x7' and its original wall to the hall was obscured glass!

YANBU.
We rent a 3 bed but a single bed doesn't actually fit in the third bedroom, the last house we rented was the same. Both claimed to be three bedroom houses.
It's fine as we only have two children who are both boys but they'll always have to share as I can't see us ever affording anywhere bigger.
The two double bedrooms are small too so they have two single beds in their room with barely any room for anything else and our bedroom is equally cramped with a standard sized double bed (we'd never get a king size in).

I grew up in an old three bedroom terrace and it's massive compared to newer houses.

Retrofitting of radiators also cuts down 'just long enough for a bed' to 'not quite long enough for a bed'.

It's v annoying because the footprint of the 3 original bedrooms in our house is actually enough for 3 small doubles, instead there's a small double, a "cot" room and a huge double.

Realise we are generally v lucky (though as with a PP our downstairs is rubbish)

I detest that 60s/70s stair box thing. Loses you a quarter of the room.

The first time we viewed houses the 'en suite craze' was at it's peak and everyone had either put an en suite into an average sized bedroom leaving enough room for the bed and maybe one chest of drawers or had stuck a cheap toilet and a light into a bedroom cupboard. Awful.

We got lucky with our house. Late 70s build. Bedroom 3 is an office but you could get a double bed in with a few bits of furniture if you needed.