To ask how big is your house?

[FGSholdthedoor]

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?

And don’t they me started on carrying the ruddy Henry Hoover and clean washing up and down all the stairs!! It’s home though

I grew up in a huge house but since leaving home have been in a tiny flat, progressing (slightly) upwards. I've now got a 3 bed end of terrace (extended) so, teeny hall with staircase going up, adequate front room, large kitchen, extended out so playroom off kitchen. Small but manageable garden. Garage not adequate for a car so 1/3 has been converted into a utility room. Fine in the summer, utterly shit in winter as garage not attached to house. 3 bedrooms upstairs. Was originally 3 bedrooms but the box room was so tiny it became the lobby/staircase for a really lovely sized loft conversion. One family bathroom. One ensuite in my bedroom. DD has loft room with small ensuite (loo and sink). It's just three of us, me, DD (19) and DS (6). It's fine for us and DD will be leaving home next year. It's considered a new build so as others have said, small rooms, inadequate storage but I feel the most has been made of the space. I also no longer have a husband cluttering everything up so it's much better for us now. I would have thought inadequate though for any family bigger than ours. What is really wish we had was a downstairs loo. That feels greedy though compared to some of the descriptions on here therefore I know we are very lucky.

3 bed 1920s semi. 2 reception rooms & a large eat in kitchen. Big garden.
I’d always like more space but really there’s plenty of room for the 4 of us + dog. We’re south east so prices are ridiculous for ‘normal’ size houses

Huge.

We get it as part of the terms of DPs job.

3 huge reception rooms, large kitchen, two staircases, 5 bedrooms, a box room , a pantry, utility room, a cellar, two porches. Oddly only one bathroom though.

It’s old, cold, crumbling, cranky and crooked. It’s held together by horrible wallpaper and some dodgy ye olde time DIY. It’s a nightmare to clean, by the time I’ve finished cleaning the house one it’s time to start at the beginning again. Nothing ever gets sorted through properly, it just gets moved from room to room.

The grass isn’t always greeer!

Late 1800s stone built mid terrace, it's not big, but it's big enough for us.

You walk straight into the kitchen, no room for a table.
Living room has a big comfy sofa a chair and shit loads of light oak furniture.
Dds bedroom is a decent double
Man cave was the spare bedroom but DH claimed it as his own 🤔🤔 small single
My room- could be 2 double bedrooms, but because the celilng slopes it can't be.
Bathroom- quite big, too big, could be half the size.
No loft space
Smallish garden.

Scrowy, is your DH a vicar?

We have just bought a 6 bed (4 dc plus foster child) living room, play room, dining room, kitchen/diner conservatory, utility room, 3 bathrooms, dressing room and 2 are ensuite. BUT we live in N.Ireland where you can buy all this for under £250k. My friend lives in London and has a 1 bed flat for over double our mortgage each month.

There are 12 of us so it’s not quite as massive as it sounds but ours had 8 rooms when we bought it and we did a loft conversion to add 2 more. Most of the rooms are pretty well sized but there are two tiny rooms that are used as spare rooms/studies.
We’ve spent a lot of time getting it exactly as we want it and I absolutely adore it.

On the other hand we moved into an absolutely tiny flat when I was pregnant with dc1 and it was awful.
We could just fit a small double bed and a cot into the one bedroom and a chest of drawers, wardrobe and a small couch into the living room. The kitchen was so small that the fridge was in the hallway.
It’s one saving grace was that it had two ok sized cupboards.
The last couple of months we were living there I was heavily pregnant with dc2 and 3 and I think that might have been the worst couple of months of my life.

1910s semi - 5 beds, 3 receptions, 3 bathrooms, playroom, sun room, family room/kitchen utility, study, big garden, wide hall, storage. BUT we have been really lucky with the property market and I am so thankful for that. We both owned property before we met which was bought and sold at really good points. And we live in the north-east so you get a lot for your money. Probably get a small flat for what our house cost in some places.

3 double bedrooms, smallish bathroom upstairs. Ok sized kitchen, large lounge/diner, shower room downstairs. Compared to our last house this place feels a lot more spacious. There's 5 of us living here. We have plenty of storage and hooks so that makes things tidier and me feel happier! I would like a 4 bed with a kitchen/done though.

4 bedroom detached house with garage and conservatory. Two bedrooms are boxrooms. Two double rooms. One with an suite and built in wardrobe. Big bathroom upstairs. Toilet downstairs. Open plan living room/dining room. Small kitchen. Pantry under the stairs.
It all sounds very grand when I write it down but I rent from a very generous friend and I know I am very lucky. Imba terrible saver and know i will never get to own

I think every house is untidy when the DC are so little as there us just so much stuff

We both started in 1 bedroom flats.

4 bed- 3 doubles and a single. With en suite to master. Kitchen diner. Lounge, downstairs office. Detached garage.

A big one bedroom flat.

Down - hall, double lounge, den, utility, downstairs toilet and kitchen diner

Up - 5 bed 2 bath

Also - garage, cellar, loft

Its never ever ever all clean and tidy i just cannot do it

2 bed + loft conversion end terrace, rooms are a fairly decent size. I live alone so enough space to rattle around in.

Large Victorian Farm house with. 3 bedrooms and a granny flat

It’s too big ( 2 dc only home for the holidays ) so only DH and me rattling around

Clutter everywhere ( there’s space. So you don’t need to get rid of it , it’s easier to keep it )

Note to self . In 2018 Take Tat to Tip

50s mid terrace.

Hall, living room, kitchen and bathroom downstairs.
Three bedrooms upstairs.
Luckily have loads of storage.

There's 3 of us, one adult and two pre-teens. And a dog and cat.

My friend lives in the same type house as this, five of them - three adults and two teens. I think I'd feel a bit more pinched in their situation, but they seem to get on fine.

We've got five or six bedrooms, depending on whether you count an inexplicable room on the ground floor as a bedroom or not. Nice sized hall, dining room, study and kitchen.

One bedroom is ours, one store room (the inexplicable room), two made up for guests and a hobby room each.

We’re in what’s known here as a “double upper” - we have our own front/back door, but there one property above us, which has the same and they access from stairs at the side. Big living room, one big and one smaller double bedroom, huge dining kitchen, utility room, bathroom, plus two big walk-in cupboards in the hall. Huge garden. Just me, DP, and the cat.

Tiny hallway with room for coat hooks, a two drawer table with a basket underneath and a pile of shoes/boots.
Small living room with an understairs cupboard full of hoover, dog/cat food, DGCs toy boxes and tons of other crap. Big enough kitchen but no space for a dining table.
First floor has a single bedroom for DD who has actually moved out but visits every few weeks for the weekend. Double bedroom which just has enough room to get round the bed. Bathroom.
Top floor is a strange L shaped room divided into DDs bedroom, a utility room with freezer, dryer, all laundry airers, ironing board etc, and my sewing room which is also full of bookcases which won't fit into the living room. We take the washing from the kitchen up two floors to hang/dry.
After Xmas I'm moving DDs bed etc up to the top floor and making her room into my sewing room.
I love the house for it's rural location but feel it all needs swapping round but I don't know how.

Downstairs - Study, theatre, laundry, powder, dining kitchen living (all open plan), butlers pantry, alfresco, pool.
Upstairs - kids den, 3 bedrooms, family bathroom, powder, master bedroom, walk in robe and ensuite.
I love it but DH works overseas 70% of the time to pay for it. And my god it's a bugger to clean !!

A lovely 2 bed modern cottage. Decent sitting room, small but well laid out kitchen, functional bathroom and downstairs loo. Only 5 years old but well designed with lots of storage. Moved from a 4 bedder double its size a couple of years ago on divorce and kids moving out. Downsizing was traumatic but I realise now I just had too much ‘stuff’ I didn’t need. Although it was lovely to have lots of room when the kids were young.

Tiny studio flat, two adults. I hate having guests since they are in our bedroom and it makes unannounced visitors a pain. A few times people have turned up when one of us was ill, in PJs or already asleep then had the hump at not being invited in but they'd be sat right next to the bed. It's never super tidy with so little storage space, most of it is under the bed in box form. I'm happy enough, we have a roof over our heads and are together, but it can be claustrophobic being stuck in the same room as each other all the time and having so little space to do anything or put stuff down gets frustrating at times. At least when we can move to a 1 bed there will be another room choice if we want some space for a bit. I'm looking forward to having a wardrobe!