To ask how big is your house?

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I'm grateful for what we have but I feel like I'm suffocating day to day.

We have a terraced house consisting of a small kitchen and lounge downstairs, a master bedroom, box room and tiny bathroom upstairs.
There's me, OH, DS (3), newborn DS and DDog.

There's no porch or wide hallways to have extra storage.
You walk straight into the kitchen where all the post and tat gets dumped on the nearest worktop or the table, no room for coat rack so jackets get dumped on the kitchen chairs, lounge has huge toybox as there's no room to keep DSs toys in his bedroom as its so small and now I'm having to figure out how to fit 2 DCs in there. The car seat for DS2 is in the lounge also as there's nowhere else to keep it.

There's clutter everywhere you turn despite trying to keep on top of it and it's a constant cycle of trying to cut down on stuff etc.
It makes me feel really down and I struggle to clear my head, it makes the days with the kids really difficult as sometimes you have to walk over stuff or trip over a bouncer or toy to get to the other side of the room.
I'm dreaming of a nice 3 bedroom house with an open plan kitchen and diner and a nice big lounge, oh and a utility room

AIBU to ask how big is your house and if you're happy with it?

Agree with PP about not wanting to sound boasty, but I did grow up with six of us in a 2.5 bed semi so am not entitled about it I hope!

My husband’s parents sold their farm and gave us a big lump sum. We have a very old five double-bed house with three bathrooms, two receptions, kitchen diner and utility with toilet.

We compromised with our garden- (although we are massively spoilt) we have nothing at all at the back (our house backs directly onto the small village primary school) and a medium sized front garden that we have now fenced off from the road to give at least a bit of privacy.

I love our house- we have three boys.

Our house is far too small for our needs. (650 sq ft) We are essentially 4 adults & have 2 beds & box room, which literally just fits a bed, that my poor 16 year old has been in for 6 years. Her wardrobe is squashed into our room. One bathroom between 4 of us, no downstairs loo. Tiny sitting room, no space for a coffee table or Christmas tree. Kitchen is nice, but no room for a table so we eat off our laps. It really gets me down. Been trying to move for almost a year now. Our chain broke recently. House we're still hoping to buy is a 4 bed detached with kitchen large enough for a table, separate utility room, large lounge with study/dining room that has doors to close it off. Its over double the size of our current place!

pinkhouses - one of the roads in our villiage is called Pink House Corner. It has a pink house on the corner

Ours is too big now kids are starting to leave.
we have 4 bedrooms, 2 huge, one double and one single.
Kitchen/ diner sort of md size, one reception at front and one reception at the back.
Small conservatory, downstairs loo, upstairs loo, one bathroom.

I think it's disgusting (and yes I do mean that literally) that homes are still being built with no room for a dining table. At the very least, every house or flat should have a kitchen/diner or a double living room or L shaped living room. Eating on laps is just not good enough!

Entirely agree with you feeling. Modern houses are ridiculously small. No-one should have to eat Christmas dinner off a tray on their laps. My kids love meals around the table.

We have a 4 bed house for myself, dh and our dog. Previous owners had a family here but i cant imagine it!

On paper it seems big, but upstairs is quite small. Our bedroom is quite big, the middle one you can fit a double bed in, and the third i can't picture a single bed in! The family bathroom is also quite small.

The 4th bedroom is double but downstairs and the kitchen is quite small (well not that small but not a lot of counter space).

It suits us as a couple but i cant imagine a family living comfortably in it despite it being marketted as a family house.

Positives are that it has a huge living room, conservatory and garden! Plus a garage which is hard to find round here!

5 bedrooms - all doubles, two with en suite and fitted wardrobes. Utility, kitchen diner, lounge and playroom. Cloak room and family bathroom. 2 year old, so new build. Absolutely love it, brilliant space for me, DH and two toddlers. We were very very lucky. Live in East York's market town so house prices low anyway, and bought from a couple desperate to sell whom accepted a cheeky low offer from us. The downside is our 1 hour commute to and from work, but it's worth it for such a lovely house for less than half the price we'd pay in the Leeds/Harrogate/York area. It's all relative, for the same money we were struggling to find a 3 bed in any of these areas.

Large 3-bed detatched (2 double bedrooms and a good size single), one bathroom, garage, large garden.
It’s not mine though...we live in military housing, so thank my lucky stars everyday that we are paying ridiculously low rent! We’d never be able to afford a house like this if it weren’t for the benefits that go along with being a military family

4 bed detached. Downstairs is: Kitchen, dining room, utility room, lounge, downstairs WC, conservatory. Upstairs, 3 double bedrooms(1 en-suite), 1 single bedroom used as office & bathroom. Public rooms are rather small but I love my house. It's modern and easy to heat. Plenty room in bedrooms. We started off married life in a bedsit so definitely appreciate it!

Ours is a 1930s semi with an extension and loft conversion. So downstairs is utility, kitchen diner and a through lounge with one half used as a playroom. 1st floor has family bathroom, two double bedrooms and a box room and then loft conversion with big master bedroom and ensuite. Very lucky to have such space in London as we have a good sized garden too. But we do need the space as we have three DCs. If I'm honest I would love to have one more room downstairs to double as a guest room but I realise how lucky we are so am not complaining!

Any house of any size can be cluttered. The trick is to declutter big time. Read Marie kondo for inspiration

3 bed end terrace, late 50s build ex council house with an extension off the back.

Nice solid house, well laid out. Need a bit of TLC on it, I’ll prob do a big reno in the next 5 years.

Got a big sitting room, separate dining room, kitchen open onto a breakfast area and second lounge area overlooking the garden. Downstairs WC. Two doubles and a single plus bathroom uostairs. Big loft area that could be converted if I ever need.

New build 3 bed semi. We have a porch, living room, good sized kitchen/diner with a conservatory coming off it, downstairs loo, an suite to large master bedroom, family bathroom and then 2 further bedrooms, 1 is a double, the other a single. We have an integral garage so downstairs feels much smaller than upstairs. There's me, dh, ds1 who's 3 and we have a newborn ds also. I'd love a 4 bed but we moved heaven and earth to get on the property ladder after years of renting so in general I'm happy with my lot. The conservatory was a recent addition and it's basically a playroom with lots of Ikea kallax storage. Was good to clear the living room of toys!

All the OP wanted was a listening ear.

Kind of weird to post an AIBU in AIBU to ask specifically about people's houses then.

Big 3-bed, but small rooms. Good in that we can all have our own space (separate lounge) but bad in that the spaces are small. Ideally I’d like a proper 4-bed but it will never happen!

Traditional enormous ground floor tenement flat. Massive living room, kitchen, hall and bedroom. Tiny toilet space and a separate wet-room for the shower. The porch area is separate from the actual hall so we have space there for coats and shoes and stuff. It's also got one huge cupboard in the living room, a smaller one in the hall and a utility room coming off the kitchen.

So lots of space, but it's only got one bedroom. We're reluctant to move because 2+ tenements that we can actually afford are usually the same size minus the big cupboards and the big kitchen. We'll re-evaluate when DD is older.

Currently myself, DP, 5mo DD, 3 DCats.

3 bed detached 3 loos gardens garage. I love it apart from proximity to school causes blocked drive issues.

Could you be any ruder Cheesey toast? Thank goodness you're here to put everyone right.

Victorian 3 bed mid terrace. Perfect for DH, 2 DSC every weekend and 3 DCats.

Having designated parking would be nice, but in the middle of the city we can't afford it so this is what we have.

We're lucky that we are in the south but in a cheap city. If you moved our house 30 miles north it would be 3 x more than it is here.

Small 2 bdrm flat with tiny kitchen, one bathroom, and very little storage space. Living room isn't huge, but has very high ceilings and lovely window seat, so it seems big and we love it.

Previously lived in a 3 bdrm semi with separate dining room and larger kitchen, so we've felt the difference when we downsized, but as it was a move to London, we preferred a smaller place in the area we wanted,rather then a larger place further out.

My sister has a ridiculously huge house and, after spending most of the last few years using all her free time cleaning and taking care of her massive garden and swimming pool, is now looking to downsize into a smaller, less maintenance-heavy house.

2 bed terrace.
Good size kitchen/diner and lounge. Small downstairs hall with cupboard.
Bathroom upstairs.
2 kids and me. Me and DS2 (8) in main room (his bed is in little alcove), and DS1 (18) in small room.
DS1 now at uni so will move DS2 in there (and out again when he’s home).
It works.